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Summary: Hell Hath no Fury...than Anne Rice.
Review: Witching Hour is a giant work of sublime horror and soulful mystery wherever you turn in the book. The enigma of Lasher makes for almost no dull moments throughout, and incased inside is a thorough history of the Mayfair witches that makes you get that deep down hypothermic feeling straight to your bones. Subtle terrors abound in the olden streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans. Marvelous.
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Summary: This book illustrates Anne Rice at her best.
Review: I am an avid Anne Rice fan and believe this to be one of her best. I have read every book that Mrs. Rice has written and I am spell-bound every time I pick up her books. This was the first book of hers that I read. After twenty pages I was hooked. In the past two years I have devoured everything she writes and look foward to the next.
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Summary: Oh, for the love of <deleted>
Review: Reading this book was an act of faith on my part. That faith was very poorly placed. First, you get maybe 300 pages of actual plot and current-day character development. Then (@!*%#), you are subjected to another 300+ pages of a historical narrative that *never seems to end.* When the story resumes, you are dragged along as characters act in a "most unseemly" way. Finally, the ending is the worst I have ever seen in a book this long. After having read (and suffered) so long, to make the ending essentially a "stay-tuned-for-our-next-book" finish is like pouring acid in the already festering reading wounds of those who somehow managed to make it that far to the end of the book. Ann Rice? Never again.
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Summary: MOST EXCELLENT BOOK
Review: I READ ABOUT 4 OR 5 BOOKS A MONTH, SO OBVIOUSLY I'VE READ MANY BOOKS. THIS BOOK BY FAR WAS THE BEST BOOK I'VE READ. AT FIRST I DIDN'T HAVE ANY INTEREST IN ANNE RICE'S BOOKS BECAUSE I THOUGHT THEY WERE ALL HOKEY POKEY. FROM PAGE 1 OF THE WITCHING HOUR I WAS HOOKED. NOW I HAVE TO READ EVERYTHING THAT SHE HAS WRITTEN. I AM NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF LASHER WHICH IS THE SECOND BOOK IN THE MAYFAIR SERIES AND IT IS JUST AS ADDICTIVE AS THE WITCHING HOUR. I HAVE NEVER ESCAPED THE REAL WORLD AS I HAVE WHILE READING HER BOOKS. THE WAY SHE WRITES KEEPS YOU COMING BACK FOR MORE.
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Summary: Witches and Incest. What else is there???
Review: Anne Rice is a fascinating and intriguing writer. This book takes quite a while to get into the swing of things but once over that barrier you'll be hooked. You will find yourself swimming into the lives of the Mayfair family and all their secrets. For four centuries, the Mayfair witches have killed, have had love affairs, and have made a terrific fortune. Rice has the ability to intertwine several stories and characters among one another, which will leave you sitting at the edge of your seat waiting for the next big surprise. What will happen to Rowan and Michael? Who is Lasher and what will he do next? Hopefully, these questions will be answered in the next book. There are witches. There are secrets and a long history of incest and love affairs. What else could you ask for?
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Summary: Easily the worst book I have ever read.
Review: While I have enjoyed other works by Anne Rice, this story was really rough sledding. Boring, overly long, and, to add insult to injury, the story has no ending. Really, none at all. After the intrepid reader has fought through all this needless grot, he is expected to buy another book to see how the story ends. Sorry, but this was the last time I will purchase Rice's work. The Witching hour is strictly for masochists.
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Summary: Boring, But Gets Better
Review: I thought this book was exceltant. Though it did take me a month to read it. The beginning was boring yes, but after you get passed the first several chapters, it gets very interesting. What I liked most about this novel was the character Lasher himself. He could get anything he wanted, and do anything practically. He was mean, and minipulative (spelling?), he got every one of the Mayfair witches to do EXACTLY what he wanted of them.I'm not an expert at critizing books. All I know is what I like and I'll tell people about it. All in all, I thought Ms. Rice wrote a very good and entertaining book and I can't wait to start the second.
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Summary: Excellant Reading, Keeps your interest
Review: Great book on Witches, not dancing around a fire or flying on brooms, but with a spirit named Lasher, and mind reading/future knowlege abilities. As in her Vampire series, Anne Rice is very discriptive and hard to put down.
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Summary: Rice badly in need of an editor!
Review: <I>The Witching Hour</I> could have been cut into a novel of 300 or so pages and suffered no ill effects. There are pages and pages of repetitive description and dialogue. The ending is pathetic. To her credit, the book does have some interesting portions, particularly the early part of the "book-within-a-book" history section. If you read <I>The Witching Hour</I>, be prepared to skim large sections of it. All in all, and ignoring the weak ending, it would have been quite a good book if cut to a third of it's current length.
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Summary: Takes your imagination places you never thought it could go!
Review: I love the way Anne Rice thinks, she knows how to bring her characters alive and keep you wanting more. The entire book was written exceptionaly well although I was a bit disappointed at the end. I expected something totally different. After I read Laser, that disappointment faded away. She is an exceptional writer!
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