A Witching Hour - Anne Rice

Until a few months ago, the only book I had ever read by Anne Rice was half of ?Interview with a Vampire.? The reason I never finished ?Interview with a Vampire? was because I started it when I was quite young and I found it a tough read. This has recently changed after my friend lent me this book and ?The Vampire Lestat? and ?Queen of the Damned.? Suffice it to say, I loved them. So much so that there is no possible way I could write a fair and unbiased review of them. So instead I am reviewing ?The Witching Hour? because while I enjoyed it I didn?t find it quite so time-consumingly addictive as the Vampire Chronicles. However, it is an interesting book to talk about. ...  Read the complete review

"The Witching Hour" takes us out of Anne Rice's familiar vampire world, but not very far. We are back in New Orleans, where the air seems to be full of exotic, slightly sickening perfumes, and strange things lurk on almost every corner. "The Witching Hour" is the first in a series - "Lasher" and "Taltos" follow it, although given the huge bulk of this book, you'd be forgiven for wondering if there is any more story to tell. This isn't an easy book to unravel - largely due to the blk and the unconventional family it centres on. At the heart of the tale are the mayfair witches - 13 generations of women ...  Read the complete review

writer, Anne Rice. Released, 1990. "The witching hour" is the first book in the "Mayfair witches" series. It was followed by "Lasher"(1993), and then "Taltos"(1994). The Mayfair family feature in the "Vampire Chronicles" series, in the books "Blackwood farm"(2002) and "Blood Canticle"(2003). Anne Rice is famous for her Vampire Chronicles, but in this series, she lends her hand to witchcraft. Rice weaves a rich history of the Mayfair family throughout the book, spanning from the 17th century, to the present day (when the book was released in ...  Read the complete review

Author Anne Rice is a spinner of yarns, a creator or worlds. She had spun tales as diverse as those of vampires, witches, and mummies, along with several hardcore erotic novels and dramatic books, such as "Cry to Heaven" and "The Feast of All Saints". With that in mind, let's take a look at Rice's spawling, huge novel of witches and demons known as "The Witching Hour", which was published in 1990 to generally decent critic reviews and massive book sales. And all of that was well deserved, as I found the book to be thrilling, a tad overlong but that can be forgiven, and ...  Read the complete review

After having read all of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles to date, I have been reading some of her other books. This time I am reading the set of three books about the Mayfair Witches. The first, The Witching Hour, is quite a fat book, with over 1,000 pages. It took a while to read, and I found myself nipping off to bed early for a bit of peace and quiet to get on with reading it. Not only that, but it is a book that once you start, you just want to keep reading. The setting of the book is in New Orleans, where Anne Rice herself lives, so you can be sure that all descriptions of buildings and places are going to be very accurate. Sometimes she does tend ...  Read the complete review