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The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

28 reviews

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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jaymc's review against another edition

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challenging dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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gruntruckunoffical's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

I thought this was really good. It takes a hot second to get going, but I think it’s worth sticking with it. My favorite parts of the book are the Mayfair files section and the ending. For a small section towards the end of the book I felt a strong sense of dread and I wish this was more prominent throughout the book, especially the ending with how the end is sort of open. That might of just been me, though. Considering the contents of the book and repeating history/foreshadowing, I probably should have felt more dread.
Another thing I really liked was when Michael realized he had become “the man.”
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belladonnashrike's review against another edition

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dark mysterious

3.0

I liked it! I find the mayfair history really interesting and I love how she chronicled their history via secondhand accounts, although it did get a little repetitive.

I’m really intrigued by rowan and lasher, but I couldn’t give a flying fuck about michael. his backstory was completely unnecessary. he’s joining the marius, david, and (book) louis club with how boring I find them.

I love how she writes about new orleans - it always feels like I’m there even though I’ve never been. you can feel the love for her city in every page she writes.

major critique of this book is her incessant weirdness about irish & mixed race people. rice has a habit of making all her characters have the same viewpoints on race, gender roles, pedophilia etc. regardless of their culture or century, which just makes it seem that these are her viewpoints that she refuses to examine, alter, or personalize for the otherwise brilliant characters she writes. it flattens them, on top of being questionable. similarly, she constantly asserts that rough sex = rape and it’s making me question whether or not some of her characters were truly sexually assaulted in the vampire chronicles, because it’s a little fuzzy and I feel that that wasn’t intentional. I don’t understand why some people think of rape in this way, it baffles me.

would I reread it? probably not. my opinion towards this book is similar to the IWTV (book): I have a delicate mix of intrigue and indifference towards them both. i definitely enjoyed both more than TOtBT and MtD, but they won’t be the books I’ll return to in the future. the books I’ll be rereading are TVL, QOtD, and TVA. I’m interested in reading the rest of the mayfair witches, and I can’t wait to get back to the vampire chronicles with merrick! I miss my vampires.

also. the greatest sentence in all literature is this: and I don’t fear your ghost even if he sports the cock of an archangel!!! thank you, anne rice.

***there isn’t a specific tag for this but there is explicit pregnancy/birth horror present in the latter half of this book! 
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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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alyxandrathegr8's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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purplepumpkin77's review against another edition

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

3.75

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lauren_honey's review against another edition

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dark tense medium-paced

5.0

This book is weird. Ann Rice is very talented, of course, but also maybe crazy?? I can't believe I raced through this 1,000+ page book--even with all the taboo subjects, disturbing images, and parts that don't age well--but it really was a well-constructed story; very spooky, memorable and rich. For readers: definitely read the TWs! 
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amberinpieces's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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