A Discovery of Witches 11-7-14 pages 13-96

     
Okay so the first thing I'd like to clear up is that Diana is a historian, not a scientist. I got that mixed up in the first chapter. She's studying the history of science and starting with Alchemy and how it's science with magic and sort of it's origin. 
      Also Vampires are fricken creepy. 7/10 would not recommend.

      So remember when at the end of the last post I quoted the inside flappy thing and said that the Ashmole782 was going to cause ? "...a fantastical underworld stirring."? Well it started. When Diana first examined the book she found layers of hidden script under the seen ink, seemingly hidden with magic. According to a daemon who approached her while she was having lunch, the book is told to explain the origins of Witches, Vampires, Daemons, and Humans. Daemons are especially needy for this information because they don't have bloodlines like the other three do normally. (Witches may have normal children) They are seemingly at random and are unfortunately born to humans. Genetics does not seem to be involved, though the Daemon during lunch said that her son was lucky and was born to her a daemon where she could see the signs and explain it to him because he was, by chance, like her. 
      It's all really super cool. 

      There is also a vampire of the name Mathew who has been stalking her since she unclicked the book of it's enchantments. He's the creepy one. He has been sort of protecting her from the swarm of magicals that have come to Oxford now but still it's super creepy. 

      Also apparently Diana glows with magic; as observed by sir-stalker-man. When she sleeps, (he was looking for the book in her apartment even though she would not have taken it from the library), when she studies/researches (he's been in the same/adjacent room as her as "protection") and when she's working off extra energy by running, doing yoga, and rowing a little canoe in the river for a few hours. 

      It really isn't that I don't like him and he isn't interesting it's that a lot of hi qualities so far in the book (note I really am not that far) are negative in my opinion. 

      But everyone has to have a character arch!