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Summary: Excellent, Excellent writer who has done it yet again!
Review: Anne Rice writes in a unique way that allows the reader to feel they are there - her writing grabs you and doesn't let you go. Get to know this Mayfair family and their tale - you wont' be disappointed.
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Summary: Not too scary, but a good read
Review: Witching Hour was my first Anne Rice novel. I suggest it for a first Anne Rice to anyone. The story centers around the Mayfair family and a common handyman's discovery of their history. Rowen Mayfair is a surgeon with extraordinary powers to detect life in even the deadest patients. She brings them back to life to repay her debt to the world for things that happened in her childhood. This book wasn't quite as scary as I thought, because i read the first part in the daylight, but as soon as I turned out the lights and was home alone, the book took a new twist.
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Summary: The Mayfair Tragedy
Review: Although I ahve only read a fraction of Rice's work I believe this book is as well told and well written as any book I have ever read. Rice's novel is set in current tim eNew Orleans and San Francisco. The Witching Hour gives a detailed history of the Mayfair familyfrom their ancient descendants from scotland in the 1600's, up untill the current time when we see the main characters emerge. Michael Curry is a comtractor from the "wrong side" of New Orleans. Michael however, becomes a historian out of college, but could not tear himself away from building with his hands. Michael is the ounder of the company Great expectations, named after his favorite book, and makes a life of restoring old victorian houses. Michael meets with the "Witches" when he is swept out to sea and is rescued by Rowan Mayfair. Rowan is a Neurosurgeon who was born in New Orleans but adopted only hours after her birth. Rowan has had an intuitive sense of what people were feeling or thinking since she was very young. Rowan is also the strongest of all the Mayfair witches. The day Rowan rescues Michael from the ocean is the day both their lives get turned upside down. They both encountera spirit that has hounted the mayfair family since Scotland: Lasher. Rowan vows to destroy the spirit that has destroyed so many of her ancestors, but will she have the strenght to do it? I would recomend this book to anyone who likes books that go outside the realm of reality while staying believeable. Iwill probably Re-read this book because it is good enough to keep my intrest a second time.
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Summary: zzzzzzz.........
Review: I have read other Anne Rice books and knew to expect some "slow" sections in this book. Unfortunately, the gripping, suspensful and exciting moments in this book were buried between so much sedative Mayfair history that I feel like the first person who's read an entire book in their sleep. I could have skipped entire chapters of this book and would not have missed anything vital to the story. Some parts of the story were very captivating, but were few and far between. Recommended for insomniacs!
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Summary: What's With the Witching Hour? {GCA 3}
Review: Indeed, what is the deal with this book. Anne Rice all too often targets the strange and unusual occurences of nature. This book has complicated issues at every turn. Her unfair targeting of all witches is typical and triat. Overexageration, has litte place in modern day literature. Particular theories of psychokenesis, and of demonic influences, are generalized and low brow. Rowan Mayfair, the estranged daughter of the insane Deirdre Mayfair, has devoted her life in the persuit of healing the sick. As a neuropsychologist, and physician, she has been trying to attone for her criminal acts. Killing a rapist, a small child, and an ex-boyfriend, she has not only the ability to kill but to lead to health. Michael Curry, a pyschokenetic, by accident, has barred the hardships of physical contact. Lasher, the mysterious lover/guardian of the Mayfair chosen, leads to the ruin of all his vitims. I found this book to contain exceptional characterizations, and a strong story base. Hoever, she fails to interperate the inner meaning behind every obsession. Though she gives detailed information about history, and action, she should stop picking on the stereotypes.
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Summary: Excellent, and disturbing in a good way...
Review: Though I am twelve years old, (if you have read this book than you know that I should not have read it) I enjoy the quality of Anne Rice's novels. The scenes in which her charcters live are wonderfully described, and they become real. I bought this book at the mall with a friend who said ever so rudely to me that I was insane for trying to read a book that size, and it would take me a least a year, but I assured her that the critics were always right, at least about Anne Rice, and I devoured this book in an impressive amount of time. I deeply adore this book now, and am very excited to start Lasher, the next book. The suprise ending hurt me, because it was most definately not what I was expecting! This is now one of my favorite books, and I will most likely purchase the others in the very near future. It's sad romance was a little more than I could endure. I found it sadistic and romantic. If you believe nothing else, believe me when I say this. Anne Rice will not dissapoint you!
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Summary: Witches, if you love them read this book. ASAP
Review: Never has Geneology been so compelling and fulfilling as this book has presented that of the Mayfair family. From the Hills of Scotland to present New Orleans, you will learn the history and story of the Mayfair Witches and how it all began. I would hold this book prerequisite to Lasher and Taltos. You will be so enthralled by the story of these witches that you may find it hard to put this book down. This book is told from the observor's aspect and gives such a full history on the Mayfair family that I wished my own family was even remotely as interesting. You get to personally know each of the witches and their history including their ever-present spirit. Come read this book and revel in Anne Rice's story telling abilities. You'll wish you read her books sooner.
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Summary: Hands Down, The Best Book I Have Ever Read.
Review: This is an unbelievable book. I am not an Anne Rice fan. I've never read any of her other books and I was very put off by the extreme volume of this novel; it is close to 1,000 pages. And small print at that. But I picked it up and began to read... the next thing I knew I was enveloped into a world in which I couldn't stand to exit. I was completely taken and enthralled with everything about it; the family history, the seediness, the beauty, the filth, the eery, the antiquity. It was just superb. I even named my angel fish Stella and Lasher. As far as Anne Rice as the author goes - I cannot believe reincarnation does not exist after reading this book! She has a wisdom that comes through in this novel that is not learned.
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Summary: this is too long!
Review: It would be ok if something new and interesting happened frequently, but I only got halfway into the book before i stopped, because I was sick of reading all those files on the Mayfair Witches! I wanted to know what was happening THEN. I didn't care what happened a long time ago. It would have been more interesting if everything was a mystery instead of a sequence of events, because then it wasn't so surprising since the family had a long history of "accidents".
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Summary: Good but far too long
Review: I loved Rice's descriptions of New Orleans as it is a city that I love. You really felt like you were there. But she could have easily cut about 300 pages out of this book, and not only would you not miss it, the story would have been much better. I enjoyed the historical account of the Mayfair witches at first, but then it just kept repeating over and over, until I finally skipped the rest and got back into the story. I also really didn't like Rowan very much, for some reason. Rice is a very good writer, but she needs to cut down on the verbage.
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