The Witching Hour - Anne Rice > Reviews

Advantages: Leave Around the House for Women to See Your Sensitive Side, Never Need Buy Confetti Again, Maybe You'll Die Before Reading It
Disadvantages: Someone will Probably Make You Read It, You Will Then Have to Kill that Person, Sentencing for Book-related Homicide Can be Stringent

...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, ... Read review

Advantages: It constantly has you on the edge of your seat and guides you to some staggering realisations about the characters and events that have occured!!!
Disadvantages: none

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 The historical references ... Read review

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.

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!

Advantages: An engrossing read
Disadvantages: Slow to start

...another 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 ... Read review