Disclaimer: This is not a book review. This is a "book in progress" update.
Against my better judgment and my disdain for those writers who have jumped on the Vampire bandwagon (Stephanie Meyers you have a lot to answer for) I have started reading A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by Deborah Harkness. No longer could I ignore the rave reviews this novel has received so I am now reading it and am about half way through. I don't know if this qualifies as "popular fiction" or romance; it is a mixture of both. So far I have enjoyed the historical elements of the book but midpoint I am seeing (to me) way too many cliches and too many pages spent on sexual tension, heavy breathing, ad nauseum. I will be curious to see if the book re-captures my attention as it did with the well researched historical parts earlier on. Personally I blame the TWILIGHT series for the dumbing down of popular literature over the past few years. Even Meg Talbot has jumped on the supernatural bandwagon. Baaaaaahh! If anyone really wants to read the best modern vampire tale (other than Bram Stoker's classic) one should read Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE. (Please, if you do read it erase that hideous movie with old whatshisname from your mind first.) The book far outweighs the movie and any other Vampire themed series that has come after it.
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