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The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life

por Deborah Harkness

Otros autores: Claire Baldwin (Contribuidor), Lisa Halttunen (Contribuidor), Jill Hough (Contribuidor), Colleen Madden (Ilustrador)

Series: All Souls (Related)

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"A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy--"an irresistible. wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People) A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life carried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion. In The World of All Souls, Harkness shares the rich sources of inspiration behind her bewitching novels. She draws together synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and even the science behind creatures, magic, and alchemy--all with her signature historian's touch. Bursting with fascinating facts and dazzling artwork, this essential handbook is a must-have for longtime fans and eager newcomers alike"--… (más)
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  5083mitzi | Apr 14, 2023 |
There are some here who know I'm an unapologetic fan of this series, but fan or not, I'm generally not the type to buy the "guides" the more popular series put out because in all truth, they feel like something that's been thrown together to squeeze just that much more money out of everyone; especially completists.

But the cover of this one sucked me in at the Barnes and Noble and BN was the first bookshop stop on my Holiday of Book Buying Madness, so I caved.

Yay to caving! It ended up being really interesting, as evidenced by the fact that it took me three weeks to read the damn thing. Harkness et al manage to weave an awful lot of historical facts into a book about books that are about vampires, witches and demons. This is the place where Harkness gets to share all her historical knowledge, research and education that went into giving Matthew and Diana's adventures verisimilitude, as well as brilliantly weaving the lives of the vampires (and Diana to a lesser extent) into history.

She's really clever about this too; using real documents that have gone missing, or paintings done during the correct period that are of unknown subjects or known to have been destroyed over time, she's able to plausibly weave fact and fiction together without an abundance of anachronisms. Little asides throughout the book in her own voice shares with the reader her inspirations for locations, homes, castles, even tea shops.

I had no problem seeing the delineation between the factual and the fictional, but in the section where the characters are outlined, a symbol is next to each name that does exist in the historical records, a touch I appreciated since Elizabethan history is something I'm hazy about, at best.

There are beautiful illustrations throughout, a couple of out-takes from two of the books, and a few full color illustrations from - I think - alchemical texts. This was, in fact, my only complaint about the book - the full color inserts were not captioned - an odd oversight where everything else is clearly foot-noted and cited or explained within the narrative. At one point Harkness' own historical research was used as a citation, leading me to believe the authors' were determined to be as clear and accurate as possible. Perhaps this means the color inserts were the work of the illustrator for the book, and not historical, but it would be nice to know either way.

A fun and very informative read for those that enjoyed the trilogy; not sure how well it would work for those that didn't read it as it might be annoying to have fictional characters you know nothing about, or care nothing for, interwoven through all the historical goodies.

I read this for the New Release square of Halloween Bingo 2018. ( )
1 vota murderbydeath | Jan 29, 2022 |
I love the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness so I was thrilled to get to read this preview of the guide to the series. It looks to be fascinating and engaging even though I only saw a few pages of it. I eagerly look forward to reading the complete work later this year. I am reviewing this book based on an ARC received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest opinion. ( )
  KateKat11 | Sep 24, 2021 |
Honestly, this was not for me. You SHOULD NOT read it while you are reading the series, because even if you wanted to look up a specific character you would be treated to spoilers for the series. Spoilers are throughout this and I can seriously only recommend you read it after you have read the entire series. I have yet to read All Souls Universe (because at the time of writing this review, it isn't even released yet). However, it doesn't even appear to contain winkwinknudgenudge information about the upcoming series. Fans of the series are unlikely to find much in this they didn't already know and there is nothing there to look through for the future.

I'm not certain what I was expecting, but this was not it. I was hoping for more connection to the series. Instead, most of this is very brief descriptions of historical things or things introduced in the books. Things like describing places and characters and books. The book is broken up in different parts for different things.

Author Interview
This was the best part of the entire thing. We got to see into the mind of Deborah Harkness. I found it super interesting to see how the series I adore came about.

Synopses
This is exactly what it sounds like. About 10 minutes each (30ish minutes total) of just a very dry accounting of what happened in each book. There are no new ties between them you may not have noticed. There is nothing new at all.

Creatures
This is again just exactly what you expect. It is about 35-40 minutes total of a description of each creature type, what they are like, what they typically do. None of this at all could not be gleaned from just rereading the series.

Characters
This was a very, very long section (over 75 minutes total!!!). I am perhaps most disappointed in this section overall. It is simultaneously too little information and too much. Of the characters we know and love, there is nothing further added in this and it is frustrating. Everything about them is left the way we know of it in the series in such a way even I could have written it if I really cared to. Then, there were the characters you've completely forgotten about. Pretty much every single character in this series is written down here down to a random maid (and not even one of theirs!), some of which are more filled out than others. In fact, the only people that are actually filled out at all from stuff not in the series are the actual historical figures Harkness wove into her series.

Organizations
This section, about 25 minutes long, described a bunch of the organizations that came up in the series. This section actually had the most new stuff about the series that I saw. Or maybe I just don't remember the organizations that came up as well as the other stuff so far. Every organisation in this series is rooted in history, and we get a lot of mini history lessons here.

Outtakes
Smack dab in the middle of this book is one of the few things I came to this book for. Further insight into the story. There are two outtakes, one from A Discovery of Witches, one from Shadow of Night. The first one is a rough chapter from Matthew's point of view shortly after they get to France in A Discovery of Witches. I liked this one, but I can see why it got cut. The second outtake is as they pass through France on the way to Sept Tours in Shadow of Night. I can definitely see why this got cut because it really just doesn't quite fit in.

Locations
This was a bit more interesting for some parts, like London, and less interesting for others, like Yale. She flips between a lot of information to basically no new information at what feels like random. The best part of this section was actually the pictures. We see a bunch of historical pictures of what things would have looked like when they traveled to the past. These pictures gave life to the story. I kind of wished I had looked things up before now to see into the world a bit more. A lot of the places that exist in the series, don't actually exist anymore in real life, especially in England. It was nice to get a small little bit about what it was like back then.

Magic
Relatively short section describing the different types of Magics witches use throughout the series. There are a few insights in the world-building in this section, and I was pleased at this. There was also the historical information, but mostly it was just talking about magic.

Science
This is all based on "what if". It is all "if Matthew was reading something during this extremely long time period, what would he be reading? What would he be thinking about it?" Overall, pretty predictable.

Alchemy
I tried to get into this section, I really, really did. My eyes kept glazing over. It is all just describing different alchemical processes and such. I honestly did not read this series to learn about alchemy.

Decorative Arts
I actually really enjoyed this section! It relied heavily on using pictures to show the world. It showed a lot of portraits, a lot of chairs, some objects, no seriously a lot of chairs, and things of that manner. There was also some fashion and jewelery added.

Lifestyles
A less interesting section than the one with pictures. This contained some recipes, some information about wine you may not know unless you actually know wine, some tea which I'd be surprised you didn't know existed, some descriptions of yoga and rowing, which I'm sure you know the basics of. Basically, this section just tells you a lot of things you already know.

Literature
This was another section I really tried to like but just eyes glazed over on. I tried. It goes over more alchemy texts. It goes over a bunch of mythology connected to the characters. There is a section of a bunch of different books they came across or Matthew owned and a brief description. Then what another long section just the same as before, just with poetry and plays instead. Lastly there is a bunch of phrases translated into english and more reading to look at if you so wish it.

Other:
One of the things I thought I would like best about this was the pictures. However, I was left baffled by a lot of the inclusions. Most of them are very tiny, some of them were like.. rocks with kanji on them. It was baffling. I don't really even remember any portraits of the characters, only small portrait miniatures of the actual historical figures. Well, except for the eyes. There were a lot of random eyes. Once again I was just left disappointed.

This just really, really was not for me. Coming from someone who absolutely adored the series, this was just boring, even if it was connected to the series. If you're looking for a way to connect what you love with the history of the world, this will probably not do it for you. If history bores you, this will bore you, too. However, if you love history and want to know more this is definitely what you want. ( )
  keikii | Jan 23, 2020 |
I have been savoring The World of All Souls for the past several months, enjoying my forays into Ms. Harkness’ spectacular world a little at a time. I finally sat down to finish it and loved every minute of it. Seeing pictures of the actual areas in which the trilogy occurs as well as castles and buildings Ms. Harkness used as inspiration helped bring the world of the Clairmonts and Bishops to life. The illustrations are fabulous, as is the additional information about each of the characters and their backgrounds. I cannot wait for the TV series to premiere in the US next year!
  jmchshannon | Dec 3, 2018 |
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"A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy--"an irresistible. wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People) A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life carried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion. In The World of All Souls, Harkness shares the rich sources of inspiration behind her bewitching novels. She draws together synopses, character bios, maps, recipes, and even the science behind creatures, magic, and alchemy--all with her signature historian's touch. Bursting with fascinating facts and dazzling artwork, this essential handbook is a must-have for longtime fans and eager newcomers alike"--

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