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alleyrobot 's review for:
The Witching Hour
by Anne Rice
I don't know what to rate this (between 2 or 3 stars), so I'm not going to, at least not right now. It ranges so wildly from being interesting to boring, from being engaging gothic horror to being excessively unsettling in its descriptions of sexual violence. It is effectively scary, but it is also often gross, for lack of a better word. It is overly long; it sincerely needed an editor, but it has interesting ideas threaded through all of it. The book overall is a tangled contradiction in that sense even if I still enjoy how Anne Rice writes and felt absorbed by the world and disturbing family history she created here.
The biggest thing I got out of it was seeing the patterns in Anne Rice's writing that carry over from her Vampire Chronicles books and seeing the themes and ideas she obsesses with and approaches again and again in slightly different ways. I'm glad I read it, but I don't think it is one I would recommend to most people.
The biggest thing I got out of it was seeing the patterns in Anne Rice's writing that carry over from her Vampire Chronicles books and seeing the themes and ideas she obsesses with and approaches again and again in slightly different ways. I'm glad I read it, but I don't think it is one I would recommend to most people.