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Time's Convert

return to the spellbinding world of A Discovery of Witches

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By: Deborah Harkness
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
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Summary

 From the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches, now a major Sky TV series, a novel about what it takes to become a vampire.

From human to vampire ...

Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with Phoebe Taylor, a human who decides to become a vampire herself.

But her transformation will prove as challenging now as it was for Marcus when he first encountered Matthew de Clermont, his sire.

While Phoebe is secreted away, Marcus relives his own journey from the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, through the treachery of the French Revolution to a bloody finale in New Orleans. His belief in liberty, equality and brotherhood challenged at every stage by the patriarchy of the de Clermonts.

What will he and Phoebe discover in one another when they are finally reunited at Les Revenants, beneath the watchful gaze of Matthew and his wife, Diana Bishop?

Sunday Times Number One bestselling author Deborah Harkness returns to the spellbinding world she created in A Discovery of Witches and, through the prism of an unconventional love story, explores the power of tradition and the endless possibilities for change.

(P)2018 Penguin Random House LLC©2017 Deborah Harkness Americas Fantasy Historical Fiction Paranormal Paranormal Romance Revolution & Founding Romance United States Magic Magic Users New Orleans Witchcraft Tradition
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Critic reviews

What a rich, thrilling and educational tale it is... A captivating and romantic ripping yarn (E L James)
Intelligent and off-the-wall...irresistible to Twilight fans
Spellbinding... Unputdownable
This is a glorious, finely-wrought gem of a book: intelligent, thoughtful, intricate... I could lose myself in here and never want to come out: what better accolade can there be? ...Utterly enchanting on every level (Manda Scott)
A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire... all the ingredients for an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy
A vast, sexy, historical romp of a novel. There's no doubting Harkness's vivid imagination
An inventive addition to the supernatural craze... has exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache
An extraordinary achievement... An intelligently written vampire romance set against a thrilling backdrop of magic, secret manuscripts and dangerous desire
Deborah Harkness is a creative genius. She has taken a genre that is saturated with vampires, witches and daemons and has created something unique, with its own rich history and mythology that draws you into her world with captivating storytelling
A creative tour de force
I do wish people would stop comparing this series to Twilight. It is just so much better
Once again Harkness has managed to create a world filled with not only love and romance but action and history, with characters you can love and hate, but always understand an relate to. This is an unforgettable book, with brilliant characters
All stars
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Good story and great to hear more about the other characters. Unfortunately the change in narrator lets the story down. The mispronunciation of names (eg Marthe) and several other words is distracting. The voice/accents are obviously now different, again distracting and disappointing after the outstanding performances by the narrator of the previous three books.

Inferior narration, good story.

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I loved all the other books which also has a great narrator. Sadly this one had a voice that sounded like she was whispering most of the time and she Mispronounced key names.

Apart from the narrator I was pleased to find this addition to a trilogy I love and know so well. Is it the best? No, does it give us another journey into this wonderful world? Absolutely.

I Won’t however be listening to this book repeatedly like I did the others purely down to the poor narration

Nb: until this book I never really appreciated how important and how much of an impact a narrator can have on a story. It never normally is something I consider. But my goodness this woman’s voice is grating.

Great book though!

Great story, bad narrator

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Being a fan of the all souls trilogy I was looking forward to Time’s convert. Firstly I personally found the narration unpleasant, for multiple reasons (pace, characters voices, raspy whispered narration...). I hope audible releases a new version.
The storyline left much to be desired unfortunately.

Disappointing

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4th book, following on from the Discovery if Witches trilogy. This book concentrated on Marcuses life. The narrator is different, so Matthew sounds very different.

I felt this book was not as good as the previous three, didn’t like the era as much nor did I like the change of narrator. I just didn’t engage as much with this one. Disappointing.

Times Convert...

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The story is, well, not really interesting. I've read and listened to the other books from D. Harness, and they were exciting. This one not so much.

Lacks excitement

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