orianafnm 's review for:

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

3.75

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this book is NUTS is the first thing I will say. It took me a while to get into it because AR loves her extremely descriptive narrative so the pace was very slow. It gets better as the book goes on but it nonetheless slows down at moments. The ending was not what I expected (or maybe I saw it coming and convinced myself it would end differently to retain my sanity). I might venture to say that the characters were doomed by the narrative, and I’m still figuring out how I feel about that. A couple things that I found interesting about the novel were the File on the Mayfair Witches, and also the ambiguity of some events and character’s intentions. My interpretations and predictions changed throughout as I kept on reading, so that was fun! I am so, so mad at the ending but I’ll continue to read the trilogy because I’m a completionist and I would like to see this absolute mess come to an end (if it ever does?).