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A review by readwithbells
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Fuck. This book fucked me up. Disturbing and sexy and all-encompassing and fucked up.
I don’t have a lot of words here. Idk who I would recommend this to, I don’t know who else might find this book. I love it. But I am deeply horrified. Rice is the Queen of horror after all. I feel trapped in this world. Ugh.
The reason this doesn’t get 5 stars (even though it probably deserves it) is I had just gotten invested in Michael and Rowan, and then commence 500 pages of the Mayfair family history. I liked the history, I really did, I liked the patterns and the stakes and the story wouldn’t be nearly as eerie and unsettling without it. But Jesus Christ there was so much of it. I can’t get mad at Rice for worldbuilding but omg girl that was a LOT of worldbuilding.
This is all a very dramatic way of saying this book is very good, well-written, horrifying in its horror, so overwhelmingly successful in getting me to care about these characters and hate hate HATE Lasher. Absolutely superb.
I don’t have a lot of words here. Idk who I would recommend this to, I don’t know who else might find this book. I love it. But I am deeply horrified. Rice is the Queen of horror after all. I feel trapped in this world. Ugh.
The reason this doesn’t get 5 stars (even though it probably deserves it) is I had just gotten invested in Michael and Rowan, and then commence 500 pages of the Mayfair family history. I liked the history, I really did, I liked the patterns and the stakes and the story wouldn’t be nearly as eerie and unsettling without it. But Jesus Christ there was so much of it. I can’t get mad at Rice for worldbuilding but omg girl that was a LOT of worldbuilding.
This is all a very dramatic way of saying this book is very good, well-written, horrifying in its horror, so overwhelmingly successful in getting me to care about these characters and hate hate HATE Lasher. Absolutely superb.
Graphic: Miscarriage, Rape, Incest, and Sexual violence