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The Witching Hour - Paperback
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The Witching Hour
$23.49
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Atmospheric, Eerie, Romantic
- Kind of story
- Gothic, Occult and possession, Supernatural horror
- About
- Family, Power, Desire, Identity
- Pace
- Slow burn
- How dark
- 4 of 5. Very dark, some graphic scenes
- Romance
- At the heart of the story
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Thirteen generations of Mayfair witches, one entity that has attended every one of them, and a neurosurgeon who has no idea what she's inheriting.
Shelf note: A big, lush book to disappear into for a few weeks. The family history is the best part.
Rowan Mayfair was given up at birth and raised in California, knowing nothing of the family house on First Street in New Orleans or the legacy attached to it. She has a gift she doesn't understand: an ability to kill with a thought, which she has used without meaning to.
Then a man drowns off the coast and she brings him back, and the Talamasca, an order that has quietly documented the Mayfairs for three centuries, decides it's time she read the file.
The file is most of the book, and it's extraordinary. Rice traces the Mayfair line from a seventeenth-century Scottish burning through Saint-Domingue and into Louisiana, generation by generation, each one shaped by the presence they call Lasher. It's genealogy as horror, and the accumulated weight of it is what makes the present-day story land.
First in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy.
Details
- Author: Anne Rice
- Series: Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Book 1
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780345367891
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