
The Black Bird Oracle A Novel
Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series. Deborah Harkness first introduced the world to Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew de Clairmont in A Discovery of Witches. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. Since then, they have fallen in love, traveled to Elizabethan England, dissolved the Covenant between the three species, and awoken the dark powers within Diana’s family line. Now, Diana and Matthew receive a formal demand from the Congregation: They must test the magic of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Rebecca. Concerned with their safety and desperate to avoid the same fate that led her parents to spellbind her, Diana decides to forge a different path for her family’s future and answers a message from a great-aunt she never knew existed, Gwyneth Proctor, whose invitation simply reads: It’s time you came home, Diana. On the hallowed ground of Ravenswood, the Proctor family home, and under the tutelage of Gwyneth, a talented witch grounded in higher magic, a new era begins for Diana: a confrontation with her family’s dark past, and a reckoning for her own desire for even greater power—if she can let go, finally, of her fear of wielding it.
Reviews

Samantha Cummings@samcummings
I have to be honest, this book didn’t grip me as much as the others in the series but as I progressed through to the end I understood why - there’s another book coming! Now I understand why the pacing was so slow!! The last few chapters were the best and I’m excited to read the next one, at least!

Cole Stoots@cstoots
While a good book and a spectacular insight into Diana’s paternal family, Harkness lost some of the magic that made the All-Souls Trilogy as amazing as it was. The characters, relationships, and circumstances felt extremely forced and out of place. I did enjoy it, but more than likely will not return to it like I do with the original trilogy.

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