The Witching Hour

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Summary: A Great Escape from the Day to Day Reality Grind!
Review: I found Anne Rice's The Witching Hour to be a fascinating read. The eternal fight of good against evil is always interesting, but especially so when the characters are believable and the plot takes you in directions you don't anticipate. What is that special "something"--a richness that pulls you in and separates a true story teller from a simple recorder of events? Anne Rice has that special "something" as she keeps your mind thirsting for more knowledge of the Mayfair Witches, Michael, and Lasher. If you like to vicariously experience danger, romance, and suspense on your lunch hour, waiting for the bus, or before you go to sleep at night, this is a geat way to do it!

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Summary: The Witching Hour is an excellent novel.
Review: Witches have long fascinated many people, and here they are brought to life. Anne Rice takes you on a journey from California in the present, to medieval England. The next time you see the odd one out in your town, you won't think the same about them. Anne Rice has written many novels, each one better than her first. This one takes all the shine from The Vampire Chronicles and places it upon the lives of one family.

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Summary: Rice's Best Book Yet
Review: If you've read anything by Anne Rice, but haven't read "The Witching Hour", you might as well have not read anything by her. I wasn't a big fan of Rice's until I read this book.

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Summary: An interesting story that took too long to be told...
Review: The story of the mayfair witches is very interesting... but i think rice took way too long to tell it. i can appreciate long books, but this one could have been summed up in half the time. this, combined with _queen of the damned_ have turned me away from rice books.

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Summary: Witchy Woman
Review: This book was very good. I really liked the history of the Mayfair witches. I wouldn't give this book a full 10 since there was so much nudity, as well as the characters rarely talking, but a good read.

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Summary: Fairly disappointing
Review: What amazes me is the number of thumbs-up this book has received. I purchased it while on my holiday in Italy, lured mostly by cleverly designed cover (paperback edition with a hole) and "her sexiest??? work yet" accolades. BTW who writes such stuff, anyhow? Well, rest assured -- there's definitely no sex here! Just a rather boring variety of accounts detailing author's peculiar taste for trans...(help me here, something human and something not human) incest. After watching "The Interview" it's kind of "not unfamiliar", if you know what I mean. And it definitely is not "Foucault's Pendulum" although you might wanna stay clear of the similar inevitable anti-climax once you decide to finish the damn thing (that's what you get when a book you're reading has references of the Templars). The "good" thing is the book is REALLY long.

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Summary: Move over Vampires!
Review: Anne Rice weaves an even more compelling tale with this first story in a new series. The Mayfairs give Lestat a run for their money. Once you become enmeshed in the story of Rowan & Michael, you'll want more. Anne draws you into this family with her inimitable style and doesn't let you go and leaves you wanting more! These characters really come alive through Anne. Don't pass up this one!

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Summary: very good
Review: This book was ... good! It unfolds and unfolds . . . when Rowan met Micheal, the file on the mayfair witches . . . It's long though, but a page turner. Though I was really into Anne Rice as a teenager, I doubt her books are very good today, most of the authors that pump out new york times' bestsellers every year [are bad] anyway. But this was before all that, good book.

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Summary: Rich, Beautifully Written and Ambitious
Review: Anne Rice's Mayfair Family Chronicles are thrilling, and The Witching Hour is an amazing book.....not always easy to get through, and some will become impatient with all of the family history, but without that history, much of the book would be far less effective. Anne Rice has a rare luxury, she has a strong fan base that is willing to buy and read a book entirely of background for another book. The Witching Hour is not that, but the History of the family is intensive. It is a thrilling, wonderful book, rich in detail, lyricisim, sensuality and character

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Summary: What a great book!
Review: A friend of mine told me about this book one night when we were out and for the life of me I couldn't remember the name of it although all I could remember was the surname Rice. After having sung the praises of this book, I was looking forward to reading it and I couldn't put it down! Although the book is very detailed, it is required so that you can fully understand the history of the spirit Lasher. If you are looking for an engrossing saga that continues on with another two books, you will not be disappointed with The Witching Hour. A fabulous book for anyone remotely interested in witchcraft also