Rather than spend more time with Charlotte, Deborah, Carlotta, Stella, Julien, & everyone else, it's painfully apparent that their lives & misadventures are leading to Rowan Mayfair & her boyfriend, Michael Curry, as their lives are woven into the Evul Plans of a very determined named Lasher.īefore I get to Rowan & Michael, let's talk about Lasher.
WITCHING HOUR SERIES
Unfortunately, the long-running cycle of Mayfair Witches seemed almost secondary to the primary plot - a strange thing to say, yes, given that the series is called "The Mayfair Chronicles." But there it is.
I would've happily read a complete novel about those people & their fucked-up family dynamic.
I absolutely loved the family history portion of this novel - the compendium of sources & snippets relating to the Mayfair family through several hundred years. The end."īefore I get to what cheesed me off, let me say that the middle third of this book was great. You might try to list item by item, but everything is woven with everything else & there's no way to distinguish in the grand scheme. It's like trying to tell someone what happens in a George RR Martin novel.
WITCHING HOUR HOW TO
I don't even know how to summarize what I've just finished. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax. With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And always-through peril and escape, tension and release-there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death. a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.įrom the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien-the clan's only male to be endowed with occult powers-provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing. An intricate tale of evil unfolds-an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first "witch," Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher. He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.Īs these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and-in passionate alliance-set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV. Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery-aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches-finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life. It begins in our time with a rescue at sea. On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking. From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.ĭemonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches-a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.
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