Thoroughly recommend A Discovery of Witches on Sky

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Series 2 is starting in January so watching series 1 in lockdown would be perfect.

IMHO This is a cut above in vampire/witch stories. British drama and it has Matthew Goode in it.

I loved this series! And read the first two books which are also very good. I cant wait for it to come back in January its been too long

I'm looking forward to this. I loved the books and quite enjoyed the first series.

I only watch it for Matthew Goode, but I found it very slow. But I am looking forward to season 2 cos I like the actor playing Gallowglass.

I enjoyed the series but felt a let down on the books I LOVED (can't get that much detail
In that few episodes) that said def watching the next series

So excited for the new series. Been watching it all again on Skyone

I loved the series but quite honestly, HATED the books. Every second word was academia or Bodleian. Every page was an attempt to showcase the author's knowledge and analysis of famous Elizabethan figures and places. We get it. She studied Tudor history. I'd bet my arse she did a dissertation on it at Uni.

You could take half the self important waffling out of the book and have a wonderfully engaging and positively thrilling story. I actually hope the second television series is "dumbed down" significantly to include the storyline and bypass the boring historical lectures.

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I loved the series but quite honestly, HATED the books. Every second word was academia or Bodleian. Every page was an attempt to showcase the author's knowledge and analysis of famous Elizabethan figures and places. We get it. She studied Tudor history. I'd bet my arse she did a dissertation on it at Uni.

You could take half the self important waffling out of the book and have a wonderfully engaging and positively thrilling story. I actually hope the second television series is "dumbed down" significantly to include the storyline and bypass the boring historical lectures.

I agree with you! I studied history at university and especially love tudor history but by god i found the second book hard going when she started, i skipped alot of the waffle. I stopped reading it for months but started again when the second season air date was realised. I cant remember if the first book was like it? I havent got the third book yet.

I am really excited for the second season though!

I realised i said above the books were very good. Slightly contradictory but i loved the first one i found the beginning and middle hard going in the second but the end was good.

I was okay with the first book and did enjoy it to a point. The self important waffle there was minimal because she only focused on "Oooh look at me! I have been in the Bodliean library!"
I get what you're saying about them being good too. The story was good. Very clever and engaging. However it was a struggle to find the good bits amongst all the Elizabethan pointless guff that had nothing to do with the Story that she kept harping on about.

I just leave Matthew Goode, even if he is a tad old!