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Summary: AWESOME READING!
Review: Anne Rice if you are reading this, please come out with the sequel to Taltos. I read The Witching Hour, Lasher and Taltos about 4 years ago and I can't let go of the family. Please consider! You owe it to your loyal readers... Don't leave us hanging like this.
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Summary: Anne Rice at her very best !
Review: An absolute must not only for devoted fans but for anyone with a fasination for history,witchcraft,or genealogy.The file on the Mayfair witches,dating back 13 generations will tantalize anyone who is having a hard time tracing their own family back more than a hundred years.By far the best of her Mayfair books to date,you won't be able to put it down!
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Summary: Great Detail and Description-Characters Came Alive
Review: Though this book took me a while to get started (two months), once I had a break from the college workload and got into it I was hooked. There is nothing more fascinating than a novel that travels through intertwining generations. Rice creates characters unlike any I have ever read in an other novelist in this genre (w/ the possible exception of King's "The Stand") I am neglecting my coursework in favor of reading "Lasher" at the moment, and am only glad spring break is next week so I can "Taltos" out of my system before my GPA goes down.
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Summary: BEST ANNE RICE BOOK I EVER READ!
Review: What can I say about this book. This is positevly, absoloutly the best book I ever read! It was so enthralling! I loved what Aaron wrote on the Mayfair witches. From Petre to Mary Beth to Stella to Deidra up to Rowan. All had their lives contolled by Lasher! I loved Michael also. Kudos to Anne Rice for writing such a GREAT BOOK!
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Summary: Maybe her best novel? Maybe the best horror novel ever
Review: I don't know I think "Body Thief" might be a little better but "Witching Hour" is one great book. It's like the "Roots" of haunted house stories. Warning, it's very, very long and personally I think the first couple of hundred pages may move a little too slow for some people but the payoffs are amazing. The characters, the scope, the history, Lasher.Interestingly, this is more of a horror novel than anything Rice has written. For all of it's originality and history it is very much a story of a ghost, a family of witches, and a haunted house. Thus it I would venture say that it is one of the best horror novels ever written. By the way the sequels go in a completely different direction than you might expect. The story takes many bizzarre turns. I don't know if that is good or bad.
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Summary: One of her best
Review: An excellent story! Or should I say stories, for there are many tales combined here. What wondrous witches! As usual with Rice, I enjoyed the oldest stories most. The stories of Susanne and Deborah were the best. But the whole book was great. Cheap ending though; just an excuse for a sequel.
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Summary: Willing suspension of disbelief
Review: I'd give more stars than 5 if given that option. It's unlike anything I've ever read. This book is positively huge, an absolutely amazing supernatural imagining that had me thinking about it for a long time after that. The histories of the various Mayfairs, from Suzanne up to Rowan, were long and incredibly involved but so necessary to the overall scope of the novel, the idea that unites all of the women (and Julien, who really is long-winded) in their dark relationships with Lasher. I read this one after having read "Lasher," and his character was much sexier, much more mysterious here. A real creation. Fantastic characterizations and terrifying supernatural images. Kept me up nights! The house on First Street will stay with me for a long time. A read that will change your view of darkness. Sexy, scary, disturbing, heartbreaking, mystifying. BON!!
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Summary: GREAT, BUT LONG AND DETAILED
Review: It's great story and it keeps you wanting you read more. But Rice does have a tendency to get too detailed. There were times when I just wanted her to get to the point. Warning it's a long story, and the story was great....UNTIL the last couple pages. I found the ending to be a little disappointing. But overall, I would still recommend it. It was a very good novel.
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Summary: Buy IT, because after you read it, it can be a Paperweight
Review: I liked this book, I really did. Holding it up was quite a chore, since it was pretty heavy. Anyways, the story was interesting, it keeps you guessing on WHO Lasher is, WHAT Lasher is, and WHY is he there? I could have never guessed what Lasher was. I thought it was a ghost, but he is not EXACTLY one. Not until the book LASHER did I find out. But this book is worth buying. It's a good book. Of course, Rice always goes on and on with endless descriptions, but you can always skip a few sentences. BUY IT!
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Summary: The best book I have ever read
Review: I have read a lot of literature from Shakesphere to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and I have to admit that this was the most intrigueing book that I have ever come across. Every detail, every converstation, every character plays a crucial role in the family history of the Mayfairs.
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