A Discovery of Witches review

Deborah Harkness has scored a hit with her first audiobook, A Discovery of Witches--it's sure to appeal to Twilight fans with more grown-up tastes, as well as people who like a little history and a little fantasy in their reading.  Diana Bishop, the last in a powerful line of witches, inadvertently stumbles across a rare manuscript at Oxford.  It turns out that the book has been sought by vampires, witches, and demons for more than a century, and they will do anything to get it back. 

The story progresses at just the right pace--there's plenty of detail when you want it, but it's compelling enough to make you always want to know what will happen next.  The historical backstory of the vampires and the manuscript adds a nice dimension to the story, too, spanning all the way back to 500AD.  Diana's romance with one of the vampires will probably feel a bit familiar to most listeners, but Harkness's writing is good enough to make it interesting anyway.  The narrator is perfect for the role, handling a wide variety of accents with surprising ease.  Definitely not an audiobook to miss!