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A review by psilosiren
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
4.0
This book is an interesting one, and the first Anne Rice novel I have read that isn’t one of the Vampire Chronicles. I am not as enamored with it as I am with the vampiric novels, but it was good and I still enjoy her writing style nonetheless. I know that the two series converge later on, which is why I am reading this one.
This book is probably not well suited as an introduction to Rice’s writing, and it is very tedious in parts. It is over 1000 pages, and much of it is detailed history of the lineage of the Mayfair family. Some of it is hard to follow, and while it is interesting, it is also very very lengthy. Toward the end of the novel, and reaching its climax, the story did become captivating, and I am hoping that this very long first novel is an extended setup for an ultimately very entertaining story. It remains to be seen.
I am not as impressed with Rice’s writing and connections and philosophy in this book as I have been with some of her others. Normally I am blown away by her writing and very emotionally dragged into the characters and outcomes. This was somewhat less evident in this novel, even though the characters do have some great potential, and some of the emotional reactions were starting to come out near the end. Again, hoping for better things as the series progresses.
Overall still a very good book, but anyone interested in Rice should probably start elsewhere to get a taste for her style.
This book is probably not well suited as an introduction to Rice’s writing, and it is very tedious in parts. It is over 1000 pages, and much of it is detailed history of the lineage of the Mayfair family. Some of it is hard to follow, and while it is interesting, it is also very very lengthy. Toward the end of the novel, and reaching its climax, the story did become captivating, and I am hoping that this very long first novel is an extended setup for an ultimately very entertaining story. It remains to be seen.
I am not as impressed with Rice’s writing and connections and philosophy in this book as I have been with some of her others. Normally I am blown away by her writing and very emotionally dragged into the characters and outcomes. This was somewhat less evident in this novel, even though the characters do have some great potential, and some of the emotional reactions were starting to come out near the end. Again, hoping for better things as the series progresses.
Overall still a very good book, but anyone interested in Rice should probably start elsewhere to get a taste for her style.