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Title: The Witching Hour by ANNE RICE ISBN: 0-345-38446-6 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 22 March, 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (318 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: HAUNTING! STAGGERING! ANNE RICE AT HER BEST! READ IT!!!
Comment: I was absolutely spellbound from chapter one of this fabulous tale. Rowan is a tragic heroine for the ages and Michael is her light at the end of every tunnel. If you like Anne Rice then you'll love this book!
Never has her talent for rich description been more brilliantly displayed than in the Witching Hour. You can almost feel the Louisiana Heat and see the oak lined streets of the Garden District. More importantly you'll become so involved with the characters and their tradgedies and triumphs that you'll actually feel sad when you reach the end of this amazing novel (despite it's length). Fortunately there are two other novels in the series with the promise from Anne of more to come.
Also, the classic Rice trait of interweaving two and sometimes three stories into one and going back and forth in history (sometimes many centuries apart) is in full force in the Witching Hour. I first read this book almost six years ago and I loved it so much that it has become a ritual for me to reread it every summer.
The only criticism of the book that I have encountered is that the section on the History of the Mayfair Witches is too lengthy, but personally that is my favorite part. This is where you really get to know the history not only of Lasher and his 13 witches, but the Mayfair family itself.
And as always Anne puts her own unique twist on historical facts and blends them in beautifully with the plot.
The tale of Rowan and the other doomed witches will haunt you. This book is not to be missed!!!
Rating: 3
Summary: good enough to finish, not good enough to rave about
Comment: I finally finished this book after a couple of weeks of 50 pages a day. Having not read any other Anne Rice, I can't compare it to her other books. I was pretty disappointed that after wading through over 1000 pages, the ending was not just "surprise" or a "twist", but an obvious setup for a sequel. The reader deserves better after the time invested in the rest of the book. I did find the history of this family of witches pretty engrossing, or I wouldn't have kept reading. There are some parts which would be disturbing to many readers, including a LOT of incest. Despite her ability to write, I probably won't pick up another Anne Rice novel.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not The Finest Hour
Comment: Despite the strong and interesting beginning, The Witching Hour was a painful read. I made it to approximately page 500 and realized that I had become very bored. Then I took into consideration that I had roughly 500+ more pages to go. I decided to stop reading it. The story, while very well conceived, became dryly written and immobile. And the amount of detail in this book is quintessentially EXCESSIVE.
I have read quite a few reviews that site Rice's writing style as being the flaw with this book. I don't think her style is necessarily a "flaw", because a few parts are beautifully written. The "flaw" is that The Witching Hour is profusely detailed and incredibly long. So if you are a patient person and would enjoy a book that is tantamount to an emotional history book about a family of witches, then this is the book for you. However, if you are looking for a concise book of at least reasonable length and momentum, consider yourself forewarned because I do not recommend this book for you.
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Title: Lasher by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345397819 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Taltos by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345404319 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 31 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Merrick (Vampire/Witches Chronicles) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345422406 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Pandora by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345422384 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 26 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Blood and Gold by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345409329 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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