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Lasher

Lasher

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: la campaña de las brujas termina
Review: La busqueda de la inmortalidad en los personajes de Anne Rice mas encerrados en si mismos marca el desafio de la incorporación de lo humano en el devenir magico y boscoso que irrumpe en nuestro mas recondito inconsiente haciendolo propio, adiferencia de los anteriores vampiros, momias y demonios este"ser" busca ser humano y probar las vanalides de todo lo que ser humano implica,con sus rarezas de amores insestuosos y profanos(tipicos en anne Rice) El egiosmo parte poco inmortal, proboca las ansias de poder lo que desencadena en una persecusión muy interesante.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This isn't "college literature," but it's a great escape.
Review: I picked up "The Witching Hour" while sat in an airport, and didn't start reading it until six months later. I finished it in three days. When "Lasher" came out, I bought the hardcover because I couldn't wait for the paperback to surface.

I didn't buy the books for the valued literature, I bought them for the imagery, the fantasy and the story-weaving. Anne Rice provided all of that, and some good "supernatural" scares as well. Yeah, there's the incestuous spice added as well, but what modern writer doesn't touch the taboo in one way or another to unnerve the reader?

Don't answer that. It was rhetorical, and I don't need the extra e-mail. ;)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Can't get any worse than this. . . or can it?
Review: Let me start off by saying this: I HATE the character of Mona Mayfair.

Rice really messed up with "Lasher,"and I wish "no stars" was an option for a rating of this book. Rowan has no spine and Michael is raped by a 13 year-old and that's just in the first two chapters. The story slipped through her fingers as she tried to make me identify with Lasher. Impossible. Her crass treatment of history and her corruption of Michael and Rowan made me wish I could set fire to my copy of this book and watch it go up in flames.

In TWH, Rowan was strong and brilliant. If she had killed Lasher like she should have in TWH, this book would never have had a chance to have been written. Rowan ends up being held prisoner by Lasher while they're on the run, trying to find out what he is. During this time he rapes her repeated and she miscarries again and again. Not the fate she imagined, and while humbling Rowan is necessary, treating her like this was not.

Meanwhile, back at the Mayfair house in New Orleans, 13 year-old Mona Mayfair, Rowan's flower girl, sneaks into the mansion and takes advantage of Rowan's absence by helping herself to Michael. The child, for that is what she is, is hell-bent on "shagging" (the real word I want to use cannot be printed here) every Mayfair man she can get her hands on. The self-styled wunderkind also lives in a run-down house in the neighborhood, yet she manages to afford a state-of-the-art computer and fancies herself quite the corporate stockbroker. As if.

Several jarring anachronisms annoyed me about this novel. The first: Rowan was identified as being 5'11" tall in the File of the Mayfair Witches, compiled carefully by the Talamasca. In "Lasher," the medical report quotes her as being 5'7". The second: Julien Mayfair and Evelyn Mayfair copulated in 1913, producing Laura Lee. Gifford Mayfair was born to Laura Lee in 1944. Gifford's full sister, Alicia, was born in 1964, because she was thirteen when Mona was born in 1977 and Mona was thirteen in 1991. Laura Lee would have had to have been 31 when she gave birth to Gifford, and 53 when she gave birth to Alicia. It doesn't quite compute, being that menopause would most likely have set in. Third, we're not even going to go where Rice went with Henry VIII's wife, Anne Boleyn.

Take my advice and write your own sequel. It's bound to be better than this plodding, trashy, exploitative drivel.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Book was weired
Review: I think it was weired and not for teenage eyes too see

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not one of her best.
Review: Lasher was kind of a disapointment after reading her vampire books and the Witching Hour. I would only suggest this book to die hard Anne Rice fans like myself. If this is the first of her books that you have read try a different one before you judge her work.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I want more
Review: I couldn't go to sleep till I had read all of it and still I read it more then I should of. I still fill as though I didn't get my fill of this book. I have to say that Anne Rice is now the one person in this world that can have my love of reading. Any one that loves Stephen King's books would love her books.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Superb!
Review: After I finished The Witching Hour and realized it was the first in a series, I was frantic to find this book. I was impressed with the way Ms. Rice led me into the story. The length of the first book required a little rehashing to get ya going. After I finished it I was even more frantic to find the third, Taltos. Thoroughly enjoyed the series. Would love to see more like this. Like another reviewer said, I felt like I was there with them, sometimes like I was a Mayfair.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great
Review: It was wonderful, the detail that is given in the memories if the Mayfair women is incredible, I just love Mona!!! If you liked The Witching Hour you have to read Lasher. I have read almost all of Anne Rice's books and this one is no exception, it was definatly worth my time.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Five stars for Rice's "Lasher"
Review: This was actually the first Anne rice book I read (not "The Witching Hour") and I was completely taken with it. This is definetly the best in the trilogy "Lives of the Mayfair Witches". An awesome read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Brilliant. Rice's characters come to life.
Review: Rice is blessed with a vivid imagination. Each character comes to life. Makes the fantastic believable. Best read yet.


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