Series profile
All Souls
An ongoing historical fantasy about witches, vampires, scholarship, family, and forbidden love.
- Status
- Ongoing series
- Published
- 5
- Commitment
- Medium series
- Audience
- Adult / Crossover
Reading route
Start with the profiled opening volume.
1 of 5 volumes profiled
- 1Fantasy CompassA Discovery of WitchesBook profile
A Discovery of Witches
A historian, an enchanted manuscript, and a forbidden alliance reshape an old supernatural order.
The original trilogy resolves its central manuscript arc, but later novels continue the same families and supernatural world.
Series intelligence
Before you start the series.
Where to begin, how much the complete reading path asks of you, and whether the central story has an ending.
- Linear reading order
- Still continuing
- 5 published books
Where to start
Start with A Discovery of Witches and continue in series order. The central story is designed to be read linearly.
- A Discovery of Witches
The intended starting point for the continuous central story.
5 books are published, and the central series is still continuing.
The full published path is a medium-length series spanning 5 books.
Across the books
How the series changes
The series widens from one manuscript mystery into family history, time travel, and supernatural governance.
- Political intrigue
- StartsCreature rules surrounding one discoveryLaterInstitutional conflict across generations
- Plot complexity
- StartsA mystery and forbidden relationshipLaterSeveral family and historical threads
Best if you want
- Adult paranormal fantasy where research and romance share the plot.
- A relationship that expands into family history and supernatural politics.
Think twice if you need
- Fast action or concise worldbuilding.
- A completed overall series or romance kept secondary.
Outside the score
Reader context
Series information guides suitability and commitment. Matrix scores remain attached to individual books.
Reader advisories
- Violence
- Sexual content
- Grief and loss
Editorial record
Sources and review
Matrix v1.0 / calibrated / medium confidence / reviewed 2026-07-28