Name: The Witching Hour
Rating: 4.030769230769231 (65 reviews)
ISBN: 9780099471424

Anne Rice

The Witching Hour

Draculelle

Patterns exist everywhere, and purpose is at its safest when it is spontaneous and short lived.

M. Sosotris

A sweeping tour de force. Ghost story, doomed romance, Southern gothic. 

I love how Anne Rice sets up this sweeping tragic, horrifying family history, and leaves the reader wondering just how true any of the gossip and legends surrounding the Mayfairs really is. Questions of free will entwine throughout this massive story, and the reader is left uncertain of what is actually true until the novel’s final moments. 

Lasher is a compelling, mysterious figure existing in the background and possibly pulling the strings throughout the centuries, and Rice beautifully weaves a complex tapestry of human drama, populated by fun, tragic, hopeful characters. 

I love Rowan and Michael, and I like how each character’s specific strengths and flaws play into how the story plays out. There’s no easy answers, and the mysteries are compelling. I love this book so much!

Ryan Mateyk

I couldn't do it. I made it about halfway. This book is so unnecessarily long. The descriptions are overly gratuitous. I found I was skimming over parts of the story, losing them within pages and pages of scene descriptions and conversations that had little to nothing to do with the book. So with that, on to the next book.

ALSO, what's up with all the incest and pedophilia in this?

Louise Briley 

The rich, darkly twisting and fetid tale of the Mayfair Witches much reflects the mysterious depths of the Garden District of New Orleans in which it is set. This family is followed over centuries (and many pages), cursed or blessed depending on your persuasion, until we reach their final purpose. One amongst them saw this coming a very long time. Best read over coffee and beignets, don’t lose your head in this legacy.

The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)

I’ve read this when I was young for three days only to read my eyes when I get tired and go back to the book. To be young and read 900+ pages of book in just one weekend is something that I don’t have any energy for. So decided to listen to it instead, and now it took me 6 months. Love revisiting all the story in the family tree. As always, there are some long winded text as expected of Anne arrive but enjoyed it still.

Nate

This book is okay, but I would have liked it much more if I'd read it during my Anne Rice phase at age 15 circa 2002.

Ashlyn

This is truly a magnificent book. There is so much happening in its many many pages. While it is absolutelyba slow burn, it is a very well done one. It hooks you in and keeps you there. While a large portion of this story is told through a historical manner concerning the Mayfair family, it did not detract from this story but lent so much more to it. Truly a great read and absolutely worth every single word!

Sasha Mann

I really wanted to stop reading as the relationships were too disturbing to me. But I just 

 to know what came next. Finally spent weeks engaged in this story, but I just couldn't recommend it to anyone.

Clara

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I really wanted to stop reading as the relationships were too disturbing to me. But I just needed to know what came next. Finally spent weeks engaged in this story, but I just couldn't recommend it to anyone.

Andrea Badgley

Delicious. Can't wait to go to New Orleans next week now.

Janet Doré

One of my all-time favorites. History, witchcraft, sensuality, and mystery all in one. The rest of the series didn't grasp me as much as this first book.

Anne Rice begins a saga that spans several generations of witches and centers on the story of Rowan and Michael, two souls meant to confront their heritage.

The Witching Hour

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