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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
And the award for the most f***ed up family in the universe goes to... the Mayfairs, congrats y'all!
I don't normally like vampire or witch books. A co-worker kept insisting that I read this book and I finally gave in and wasn't sorry.
Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant California neurosurgeon who was taken from her mother at birth and raised by an aunt in California, does not know that there has been a powerful witch in her family in each generation for the past five centuries. She returns to the family's antebellum mansion in New Orleans after bringing back Michael Curry from the dead. He, too, has unwanted extrasensory gifts and is integrally tied to the Mayfair witches, having grown up in New Orleans. As Rowan and Michael's fates become intertwined, they seek to understand and destroy the terrible force that holds its power over the family.
This is the first book of the Mayfair Witch series.
Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant California neurosurgeon who was taken from her mother at birth and raised by an aunt in California, does not know that there has been a powerful witch in her family in each generation for the past five centuries. She returns to the family's antebellum mansion in New Orleans after bringing back Michael Curry from the dead. He, too, has unwanted extrasensory gifts and is integrally tied to the Mayfair witches, having grown up in New Orleans. As Rowan and Michael's fates become intertwined, they seek to understand and destroy the terrible force that holds its power over the family.
This is the first book of the Mayfair Witch series.
slow-paced
Holy what an undertaking. I loved the story, but I'm glad to be finished.
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Generally agree with other reviews I’m seeing—the book felt a little bit patchwork in places (family history vs the Rowan-Michael storyline) also feel like it was unnecessarily descriptive of things that didn’t matter (the Florida beach house? All the renovations to the Mayfair house?) which resulted in it being a few hundred pages too long. I got into this trilogy following the AMC show, and enjoyed watching the parallels and differences unfurl. I do feel that Rice’s writing hasn’t aged the greatest, and some of her ideas are so twisted but overall I enjoyed this book and since I purchased the trilogy bundle on Kindle, will be returning to read Lasher after a light hiatus.
This booked sucked up so much of my time, just to frustrate me and make me want to throw the book across the room and not even bother with the sequels. This book checked all my boxes initially: set in New Orleans, about witches, by Anne Rice, some good steamy scenes, family secrets, random ghost/demon and good world building - but then - the last 200 pages or so just threw it all out the window and I felt the main character just did a 180 in character/decisions and I hated the ending. I mean...yes there was a little bit of explanation, but for some reason, the ending 100% turned me off of this book and I wish I had just dnf'd it (or never picked it up to begin with).
2 stars, because Rice is a great writer and the setting (and the first 700 pages) were quite good.
2 stars, because Rice is a great writer and the setting (and the first 700 pages) were quite good.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This was a bit of a hate finish - it's incredibly long. I actually loved the interlude of the history of the family, but the rest dragged on for me.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual violence
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest, Sexual assault