The Witching Hour

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Summary: It Grabs You, Sucks You in, and just won't let go!
Review: Ms. Rice has created yet another masterpiece. It doesn't often happen that you'll read a thousand page book and scream for more! It is spellbinding from page one to page 1038. Thank you Anne and please keep up the AWESOME work! Made me want to go back to New Orleans. TEN STARS

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Summary: She captivated and held me from the begining.
Review: I had never heard of Anne Rice til (out of reading material one day ) I borrowed this. This was one of those books that demands you drop everything else and finish it. After reading this I could not wait til she wrote the rest of the books that followed. I'm still waiting for the next one. It was ended with room for another. Her ability to describe things that actually take you there is incredible. While I haven't read anything other than the Mayfair series; I've only found one or two other books in my life that made such an impression. The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King is the other. Good work Anne...Keep them coming.

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Summary: Anne Rice's Best Book
Review: I have read the entire Vampire Chronicles, The Lives of the Mayfair Witches and a few of her newer books. I have to say that this her best book, after reading this novel, composed of so many mysterious ficticious historical compilations I was lead to finish the series and read more of her books. It gets no better from here on. If you don't like this book, think it is too involved in plot and mystery, read her other books, but beware, they aren't half as good.

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Summary: Meaningless fluff at its finest
Review: This was my second try at reading a book by Anne Rice (the first being "An interview with a vampire"). I'm sure there was a plot buried somewhere in her meaningless fluff and run on sentences, but I couldn't find it. I read about 100 pages and decided I should stop wasting my time and do something worthwhile. Good luck if you decide to try and read this book.

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Summary: The ultimate saga ever written.
Review: The Witching Hour is, to date, by far the best book I've ever read. I am only 16 years old with a 5 minute attention span, but this book captivated me from start to finish. Anne Rice is a brilliant author who can transport you from your bed to another realm like New Orleans or Scotland. Her follow up Lasher is even better, the feeling you recieve from these books is indescribable. I deeply recommend these books to anyone who appreciates an interesting story.

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Summary: Rice's best book so far
Review: I think I've read every book that Rice has put out under the pen Anne Rice and this is easily the best book she has done... It takes the work she did in the first 3 vampire books and takes it to another level... too bad Rice can't constantly improve... instead she follows up great books like this will pathetic attempts like Pandora

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Summary: Very interesting
Review: This was my first shot at reading an Anne Rice book. I wasn't disappointed, not one bit. I might make a little correction as to that and say that the Talamasca document section was big enough to be read as a separate volume entirely. It is on the whole, superbly well and elegantly written, and, of course, extremely detailed. One important feature that is missing from it, sadly, is a genealogical tree. The characters are pretty much a truckful, and it can get a bit confusing if you're not focused on it very much. I haven't finished it yet, but I am convinced I will buy the other two remaining books in this trilogy. Very nice going, Mrs. Rice. Keep at it!!

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Summary: How did Rice ever become popular?
Review: Out of all of Rice's books that I have read, only one was actually worth the time (that one being INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE). Everything else of her's that I have read, including WITCHING HOUR, is just total trash. Like the last few books of hers I tried to read (including the rest of the vampire Chronicles after the third book), I was unable to finish this piece of garbage. The worst part of not finishing this one is that I was reading it for a class, and I am to be tested on it. Too bad the book wasn;t good enough to actually finish.

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Summary: Serious call for editing
Review: I thought that the history of the family was interesting, but that it became too cumbersome to keep the story moving. There was far too much repition of information we the reader had already received. Rice tries to keep the reader interested with incest and detailed settings, but overall there just wasn't enough action to hold my own interest. If you are looking for a detailed biography of a family of witches, this book is for you.

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Summary: Pick a Plot
Review: I enjoyed the first hundred pages of the book. I especially enjoyed the character development. But then without warning the main character acts in a way that seems to contradict the developement of the first several hunderd pages. To make matters worse the book ends without explaining this enough. I never read the next book, if that was Anne Rice's intent to catch my interest she should have done it with less of a time investment. I have better things to read.