Shadow of Night

While I listened to the first volume of the trilogy on Audiobook, I read this one. I am willing to believe that the different format accounts a bit for how many stars I gave each book. While listening to a book being read aloud necessarily means that I am listening to a voice actor's interpretation of the tale, reading on my own makes me focus my attention differently. Given that I'm not reading these for research, I am more than content to let the audio interpretation of Discovery of Witches influence my own understanding of the work. Left to my own devices reading this volume, I found myself noticing dropped threads, hurried passages, and superfluous plot elements. It felt like Harkness crammed too much into volume two and had to work to insert plot elements around Matthew and Diana's relationship in the crevices in her historical novel. I rather like the historical novel, so I won't gripe too much.