Reviews

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

readalilsmsm's review against another edition

Too slow, lost interest 

cecilyroseceillam's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I throughly enjoyed a re read of the witching hour, still one of my favourite books in the vampire chronicles. I love the gothic setting and how you can feel lashers presence throughout the entire book and the prose, I also liked the Mayfair house was a character in itself and deteriorated and built itself up linking to the events happening in the book. I also liked the Ergodic aspects in the book where the story and history of the mayfairs is told through computer files and conversations overheard and people’s memories. It added to the atmosphere extremely well and made the mayfairs feel even more mysterious and powerful than what they already are. The gothic setting and descriptions present were very beautiful too and extremely lush and alive like the flowers being described. The science was also interesting and its conversations of cells, chromosomes and other things and I also enjoyed all the philosophical and religious conversations present too. I also really enjoyed seeing how this book slot into the vampire chronicles and seeing it link the first 5 books and the similarities between lasher and ahmel. Would recommend the witching hour if you’re a fan of old gothic novels like Rebecca and mrs dalloway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Murder, and Rape

ingo_lembcke's review against another edition

5.0

Planning to read this again, and bought it as an ebook XMas 2019 for a low price.
Depending on my feelings then having read again I might change the rating and write a review.

illusie's review against another edition

1.0

I did not finish this because I thought it was very boring.

lisajlindstrom's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

vlookup's review against another edition

5.0

Would read this again.

butterreadsbooks's review against another edition

2.0

Really boring and slow, took me a solid year to finish it because i had problems picking it up. Only giving it stars because i did enjoy the middle part where it talks about all the history of the family. The ending was ridiculous. It makes you wonder WTF who thinks of this?

squidgesmum's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

byp's review

4.0

I thought this book was cracked-out awesome when I first read it. I'm definitely going to give it another look soon to see if it holds up. I recall lots of incest.

unhinged_female_protagonist's review against another edition

Not giving a review as I did not finish the book, but I will explained why I DNF’d. While this story is well written, and it is very very detail heavy. At the time this just isn’t what I want to take on. The audiobook is over 40 hours long, and the book itself is roughly 1,000 pages depending on what copy you have. None of this is bad, but at this point it’s just more to take on than I can handle. A heavily detailed read like this is more for when I have a lot of leisure time and am not looking for something easy and entertaining.