Name: Taltos
Rating: 3.573529411764706 (34 reviews)
ISBN: 9788498723397

Anne Rice

Camila Batlles Vinn

En la serie las Brujas de Mayfair (integrada por las hora de las brujas, La voz del diablo y Taltos), Anne Rice toma las voces de seres de otros mundos para retratar la naturaleza humana, logrando conformar todo un universo mitológico hipnótico, oscuro y

Taltos

lives of the Mayfair witches

M. Sosotris

This book could very well have been a novella. So much of this novel feels like treading water or filling up space. I genuinely love the first book in the trilogy, but this book moves away from the gothic atmosphere and family secrets of the first book, and turns it into an extended frame story for <spoiler>the history of Lasher’s people, which hits many of the same beats as Lasher’s story at the end of book 2</spoiler>.

Overall, this book doesn’t add anything to the overall story and feels like it was a contractual obligation rather than something Rice actually wanted to write.

Maria Vitória 

Couldn’t even finish this book... just no no no no no no

Lives of the Mayfair Witches (Anne Rice)

Karla

"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE." --San Francisco Chronicle "TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES . . . Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge. . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . [Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera." --The Washington Post Book World "AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "SPELLBINDING . . . MYTHICAL . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller." --Cosmopolitan "BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN." --Kirkus Reviews (starred) "Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice." --The Wall Street Journal From the Paperback edition.

Andrea McGuffey

When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos. In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice . . . Praise for Taltos “Taltos is the third book in a series known as the lives of the Mayfair witches. . .Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge . . . Rice is a formidable talent. . . . [Taltos]is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera.”—The Washington Post Book World “Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature.”—San Francisco Chronicle “An intricate, stunning imagination.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . mythical . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller.”—Cosmopolitan “Beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reivews (starred review) “Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice.”—The Wall Street Journal

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