The Witching Hour - Anne Rice

Until a few months ago, the only book I had ever read by Anne Rice was half of ‘Interview with a Vampire.’ The reason I never finished ‘Interview with a Vampire’ was because I started it when I was quite young and I found it a tough read. This has recently changed after my friend lent me this book and ‘The Vampire Lestat’ and ‘Queen of the Damned.’ Suffice it to say, I loved them. So much so that there is no possible way I could write a fair and ...
...quite so time-consumingly addictive as the Vampire Chronicles. However, it is an interesting book to talk about. ** The Storyline ** Rowan Mayfair is the latest in a long line of witches. However, unlike all of her predecessors she has no knowledge of her family as she was adopted as a baby. She does possess certain supernatural powers including some telepathy and what she calls her ‘diagnostic sixth sense’, which she uses in her work as a neurosurgeon. ...

emmaclaire 04.01.2004 (08.01.2004) · Read full review
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...This time I am reading the set of three books about the Mayfair Witches. The first, The Witching Hour, is quite a fat book, with over 1,000 pages. It took a while to read, and I found myself nipping off to bed early for a bit of peace and quiet to get on with reading it. Not only that, but it is a book that once you start, you just want to keep reading. The setting of the book is in New Orleans, where Anne Rice herself lives, so you can be sure ...
...go overboard with descriptions, giving the reader every detail, and this can be annoying when it is a good part of the book because you just want to know what happens. The book starts with the lives of different people, who will eventually meet up as the book progresses. MICHAEL CURRY He was born in New Orleans in the Irish quarter, and after his father died, his family move to San Francisco. He becomes a bit of a celebrity in the local newspapers ...

carolinesite 04.05.2001 · Read full review
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...back in New Orleans, where the air seems to be full of exotic, slightly sickening perfumes, and strange things lurk on almost every corner. "The Witching Hour" is the first in a series - "Lasher" and "Taltos" follow it, although given the huge bulk of this book, you'd be forgiven for wondering if there is any more story to tell. This isn't an easy book to unravel - largely due to the blk and the unconventional family it centres on. At the heart of ...
...women linked by the sort of complicated incestuous relationships that will make your ehad hurt if you try to keep track of them. I considered making up some sort of diogram as I went along, but soon realised our language does not have the words to express what you get when if you dip into the same gene pool that often. In terms of the book, what you get are powerful women with unusual gifts, who are bound to serve/be served by a rather sinister spirit ...

Bryn_Pearson 27.03.2002 · Read full review
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...really liked each other in the first place. I know it's terribly old-fashioned, and possibly offensive, but I have never read a horror novel by a woman author that truly scared me. I have read a *lot* of horror books and, don't get me wrong, there's a heap of piss-poor male authors in the genre too. But I have yet to find an equal to the genius of the Stephen King's and the Clive Barker's on the female side of the profession. My wife, however, insisted ...
...my chauvinistic socks back in the drawer and gave it a try. The Witching Hour is the saga of a family of witches called the Mayfairs. It charts the rise and demise of each generation's witch amid a central plot of the latest Mayfair witch's (Rowan Mayfair) search to find her roots and control her powers. Surprise, surprise, there is also a love interest skulking around - a man whose life Rowan saves and who is given the power to see the history of ...

fuddy 20.07.2001 · Read full review
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This was the first Ann Rice book I ever read and have read it a second time since! I have to say that this is perhaps the most intelligently written book of this genre that I have ever read! It is absolutely amazing. It keeps you riveted all the way through. There are so many clever twists and turns and the fact that it is written in a way that chronicles the history of a particualr family means that you never get bored. The historical references ...
...You become so familiar with the characters at each stage that it is quite an upheaval to leave them to go on to the next. The same thing happens at each stage and piece by piece you are solving a mystery as to why, and how events have turned out the way they have and you suddenly understand the importance of the present day characters in who feature all the way through the book. I could go on forever....what an imagination this author has! ...

mystedai 06.10.2000 · Read full review
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Great read slow to start but gripping. I found myself reading in evey spare moment, another can't put down book! Not a book that can be put down and picked up at a later date as switches characters from chapter to chapter so probably not an ideal book to start on if you are not a reading fan as such. I found the plot very interesting there is prob something there that everyone can relate to. Hearsay and stories about big old houses and the people who live in them we prob all heard in our childhood. The mayfair witches looks like it is going to be as good as the vampire chronicles was and i look forward to reading the next book in the series. ...

mrsrush 11.03.2008
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While reading this book, I got completely absorbed! I just couldn't put it down. Her description of New Orleans was so involved that I could almost see the house on First Street, both dilapidated and remodeled. I felt as if I was actually walking past the house while Dierdre sat on the porch in her rocking chair. I either loved or hated the characters. The pull of this book was enough to keep me reading straight to the end without stopping! ...

miller23231 29.04.2008
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...Vampire Chronicle!!! Although its by the same author and later the two threads overlap (see blackwood farm) the style and characters are quite different. Rather than her traditional first person narative at which Rice excells we're stuck in the strange neverland of the omnipresent narrator, that cannot replace the awesome protagonists of earlier novels. Despite this the all encompassing atmosphere that typifies Rice's book is still present particularly ...
...For the first few chapters you probably will be confused, but I think that's meant to be part of it, after the plot gets going its as captivating as any other book I've read. Look out for the everpresent Talamasca, and enjoy a breather from the Brat Prince. Not a good choice for your first Anne Rice but definately something worth reading for anyone who's vaguely interested in her other novels. ...

pruneofdoom 21.04.2006 · Read full review
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