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The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

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herelieshenry's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

Skin-crawling horror that I couldn’t put down.

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bhaywood's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

Is this book good? I dont know. It’s well written and immensely interesting, but it’s also problematic and like many Anne Rice books too caught up in her odd interpretations about what lies at the heart of people.

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wonderingintothevoid's review against another edition

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I couldn’t get past the creepy guy lusting after a 12 year old and then lusting after his daughter

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jackbifrost's review against another edition

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dark reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes

5.0

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perfectcupoftea's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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marleyreads's review against another edition

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dark tense slow-paced

3.5

October 29, 2020 – page 75 - 7.23% "I’m just confused about what this book is really about?"
November 11, 2020 – page 339 - 32.66% "This is going to take all year. But it’s soooo goood"
November 24, 2020 – page 630 - 60.69% "Chapter 23 done. that’s like at least 27 pages in each chapter, and each page has a margin of like 4 mm on each side, and the text is tiny. It’s exhausting!"

I just finished this brick of a book, and honestly I’m so disappointed. Rice sets up a realistic family, a backstory so detailed and well done, only to completely and utterly destroy it in the last 30 pages. It was so clear until the last 3-4 chapters that this was meant to be a standalone, and for some unexplained reason decided for it to be a trilogy, AFTER 1000 pages.

Okay, rant over. Anne Rice writes like she is right there in the book. The descriptions are rich and almost so real you could stretch out your hand to touch them. The characters are amazing, and she introduces so many people without losing us completely along the way. We get time with each of them, we understand them and we mourn them.

Our main characters are introduced slowly, and their faiths are slowly interwined until it all goes to hell in the end. Michael comes off as a kind, calm and resourceful man, traditional, but soft. While Rowan is ambitious, strong and free-spirited. Both have their demons, and their lives meet and collide.

Rice could easily have cut down 1/3 of the book without losing much of what happens. We get a lot of internal monologue and long paragraphs of thinking, but not nearly enough peaks. The big point of no return made absolutely no sense for our main characters, and it seriously annoys me.

This is definitely not a book for everyone, but all of this is my personal opinion and I see that a lot of people love this book deeply, but it lacked so much to me. Gosh, glad that’s overwith😅

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