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Witching Hour
Witching Hour | Anne Rice
From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge mesmerizing novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Two people with special powers are drwan together and set out in a passionate alliance to unlock the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift. As the strane saga is played out, a world of witches is created that will fascinate readers for years to come.
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deliasson
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Mehso-so

This book contains a lot of incest and some very intimate scenes. The sentences are very long and Dialogue can be difficult to follow due to a lack of pronouns. Overall, the book is rather redundant and large chunks could be eliminated without affecting the overall story.

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Traci1
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Bailedbailed

I loved this book first time I read it when I was a teenager, nearly 30 years ago. I decided to give it another shot to see if it held up. It did not. I'm not sure what young me was thinking, honestly. It's. Just. So. Boring. After 18 hours, I'm at the 65% mark, and I am throwing in the towel. Ugh.

LiseWorks Thank you, I thought it was just me 5mo
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 5mo
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Read4life 🍁👻🎃 5mo
Catsandbooks 👻👻 5mo
Andrew65 Oh no 😝 5mo
TheAromaofBooks Some books just have to stay on the nostalgia shelf undisturbed 😂 5mo
Traci1 @TheAromaofBooks yeah, I sort of regret trying it again. Now it's forever tainted my memory. ☹️ 5mo
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BookwormAHN
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 🖤 5mo
Eggs Beautiful 🖤🤍🖤 5mo
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Traci1
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I know most people loved her vampire books, but my favorite was always this one.

#scarathlon #photochallenge day 11: witch
+6 team #spookyghostclub @Clwojick

itsjustme40something This was always my favorite too 💜 6mo
Traci1 @itsjustme40something I keep meaning to start it up again. I think it's been about two decades since I last read it. 6mo
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bekakins
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Pickpick

Well bloody hell. This was a reread so I knew it was epic but had forgotten how bloody epic. Enjoyable #doublespin for July, my favourite section of the book is definitely the history of the Mayfair witches 🧙‍♀️

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 8mo
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TalesandTexts
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Pickpick

The section about the Mayfair Witches‘ history was the best part.

The author has resorted to common tropes and prejudices held against women dubbed as “witches”. The author has also culturally appropriated certain African magical practices as part of the narrative. This book is a work of its time and would perhaps be cancelled if written today.

The book contains references to rape, incest and necrophilia.

The narrator has done a fine job.

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Coleen
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Mehso-so

This was a re-read for me, since I heard they were making a TV series. I remember loving this book when I read it probably 20 years ago. I think it must‘ve been an abridged edition back then, because my reading experience was totally different this time around. Anne Rice is good at researching & creating history, but gosh, this was long and often repetitive. As for the TV series…DON‘T DO IT! Truly awful.

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JessClark78
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Pickpick

Book One of Lives of Mayfair Witches

This was my first time reading this. I started this in January to read along with the new AMC series so I could be more familiar with the story. The book is very in depth and well written. Took a little while to read but I‘m glad I did. It‘s so much better than the TV adaptation.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#SeriesLove2023

TheSpineView This is on my TBR list. Fantastic! 12mo
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I need to start this soon. It's the longest book (that's easily accessible) on my shelves. 12mo
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BookishBelle
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I‘m off work today and decided to take myself out for breakfast. They had my favorite multigrain sourdough available today so I bought a loaf for breakfasts for awhile. #Winning Just starting this #chunkster. It‘s a little weird so far but what else should I expect from Anne Rice? Lol

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Violetsunrise84
The Witching Hour | Anne Rice

I am 12 pages into this novel. I expect that I will be reading this for a while given that it‘s over 1000 pages long. Yes, I am also watching the TV series. #TheWitchingHour #AnneRice.

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KristiAhlers
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Panpan

Holy 1k + #chunkster. And half of it not needed. Y'all this was a slog and half. I normally like to read a book before watching the show based off the book. This was nearly a DNF. Just pure stubborn determination had me finishing this. Not worth it to be honest. And what's the deal with that ending? Yikes. This did NOT make the keepershelf.

Enchanted_Bibliophile Read the other 2 books and then this one will make sense, even the parts you now think are unnecessary. They are much shorter than this one. 😉 1y
KristiAhlers @Enchanted_Bibliophile oh OK. Thanks for the heads up. I'll do that. 1y
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LiseWorks
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Mehso-so

This was one hunker of a book. My copy was 1736 pages long. I feel so disappointed in the outcome of this book. First it was way too long with pages and pages of details that should not have been included. I read it because I want to watch the series coming in Jan. Maybe it was the order in which it was written and I'm sure hoping the series starts at the beginning and not jump back and forth. I didn't like Rowan at all.I feel so sad for Michael.

TalesandTexts Agreed, Rowan was so unlikeable. And I do feel for Michael. 9mo
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Roary47
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Bailedbailed

DNF- I tried and I really liked it in the beginning, but I could not get into it after the first main story.

emz711 It's a slog but somehow kept me hooked through all of them 1y
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Ladygodiva7
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Started this book, it‘s starting out sloow….

5feet.of.fury I‘m hoping to get back to it, but it is very rambling and slow to start, I put it down at only a few chapters in. 1y
persephone1408 I am 80% thru it...but I stop and read other things. And then go back. It is a tough one. 1y
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Traci1
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My main goal for October's #20in4 readathon is to finish my reread of The Witching Hour. Kindle says I have 22+ hours remaining, so we shall see.

@Andrew65

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Traci1
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I got an itch to reread an old favorite. I've had this copy nearly 30 years (yikes! I am old). It's obviously seen better days. The pages are a bit loose. Now I'm wondering if I should just buy an e-copy to read or try to gently read this 1,000+ pager.

Deifio Hm, if you're afraid it will fall apart, get an ebook. ☺️ 1y
Traci1 @Deifio I ended up doing that. 😁 1y
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Victoriahoperose
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Pickpick

Finally finished this book! It was extremely descriptive and well written and I really enjoyed the story. Anne Rice really told an epic tale about the Mayfair witches and it was creepy and interesting. I feel like it was super repetitive in parts and I found my mind wandering as I read because it just was so dense. I am looking forward to finishing the series and seeing how it comes together through to the end!

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Roary47
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Catching up on #ScarathonDaily prompts “witch” I‘m trying to get this one read before the end of the month. #Scarathon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

NovelGirl82 The Mayfair Witches is my absolute favorite of Anne Rice‘s books! (The Mayfair Emerald is part of my back tattoo) 1y
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Cazxxx
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Roary47
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Doing some audio coloring while listening to the tagged for #OminousOctober prompt “Witch” @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #Scarathon #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

Eggs Pretty💚💙❤️🧡 1y
Clwojick Pretty! 1y
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MoonWitch94
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✨😱🕯🖤✨

Coming January 2023: Anne Rice‘s Mayfair Witches to AMC+

https://ew.com/tv/mayfair-witches-harry-hamlin-new-york-comic-con-2022/?utm_sour...

#AnneRice #MayfairWitches

jillannjohn I loved those books! 1y
MoonWitch94 @jillannjohn I have had them on my tbr for over a decade. I think it‘s time for me to get to them lol 😂 1y
Chrissyreadit ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌🙌🎉🎉🎉🎉 1y
Read-y_Picker Wait what?!?!?! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 1y
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Traci1
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While most people associate her with vampires, my favorite Anne Rice novel involves #witches. In fact, I think it may be time for a reread. I'm not particularly interested in the show, though.

#myfictionalmusings

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persephone1408
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#firstlinefridays @ShyBookOwl
I actually remembered today lol
Its my mammies birthday today

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5feet.of.fury
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I kinda just feel like I should read for another hour.. but I‘m watching WWE RAW, my brain can‘t really take in anymore Anne Rice and I don‘t want to start another ebook.

I got closer than I thought I would to #20in4 and timed out pretty well what I thought I could do. Thanks for hosting @Andrew65

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick Did you watch Summer Slam? Brock Lesner certainly put on a show! 🤣 2y
TheBookWitchON I love The Witching Hour back when it first came out. Do you plan to read Lasher and Taltos too? 2y
5feet.of.fury @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick yes indeed! When he came out on the tractor 😂 2y
5feet.of.fury @TheBookWitchON I probably will read the whole series, I will see how this one goes. 2y
Andrew65 Brilliant 👏👏👏🙌🥳🍾🥂😍 2y
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5feet.of.fury
Le lien malfique | Anne Rice
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Any tips for tackling a chunkster? I‘m on page 46/1023 🙄

lirahlu I read it in high school and would read another book in between each "Part" 2y
5feet.of.fury @lirahlu I‘m thinking that‘s what I will do too. …I just read for 40 mins and didn‘t even get to a chapter break… I‘ve only read a few of hers and I haven‘t decided if this is for me, but the reviews are solid that this is a strong series so I want to give it a chance 2y
Cazxxx I always get the audiobook for really long books or I wouldn‘t manage them otherwise 2y
Tera66 I'm reading one now. I got some magnetic bookmarks and marked off my reading goal for each day. I had four and would put them marking 35 pages at a time, even if I get to read more it helps to have a goal to hit. Tonight I'm gonna try and get to 70 (35 ×2) 2y
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Dragon
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Thanks 🙏 for the tag @Eggs #WondrousWednesday 1. I was a huge Anne Rice fan back in the day so a friend and I went to New Orleans to see her house in the Garden District 2. Just picked up a copy of Dune to reread after watching the movie 3. Synopsis- I like to know what I‘m getting into Tagging @EadieB if you would like to play. And tagging all Littens who want to play

Eggs Thanks for joining in 🤩📚👏🏻 2y
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Bookzombie
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I spent some time browsing Half Price Books today. I came home with this #chunkster (965 pages) that has been on my TBR for a while. My goal is to read it before the end of the year. 😁

ShyBookOwl Good luck!! It's a bucket list book for me 2y
5feet.of.fury I bought the same in a library sale….. I‘m hoping for October? 2y
Bookzombie @ShyBookOwl Thanks! @5feet.of.fury I‘m leaning toward that too. 🎃 2y
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Dragon I remember really enjoying this book ( I read the series years ago) Enjoy the Mayfair witches 😄🐉 2y
Bookzombie @Dragon Thank you! 🙂 2y
Dragon 💚🐉 2y
Chrissyreadit I loved this book- and it‘s one I would like to reread and see if I still do. 2y
Bookzombie @Chrissyreadit Yay! I‘m glad to know you loved it. 🙂 2y
LeslieO Oh I loved this one! 2y
batsy Happy birthday! 🎂💐📚 2y
Bookzombie @batsy Thank you! 💗💗 2y
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catsuit_mango
Le lien malfique | Anne Rice
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I am pretty sure I read this as a teenager. I wanted to read some Anne Rice as an adult to see how I felt about her style but did not want to ruin my vision of Lestat as the crazy rock star he was and Gabrielle as the best vampire , so that serie seems safer

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Enchanted_Bibliophile
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1. The Witching Hour @ 1207 pages
2. In the past, yes but in the last 2 years I've grown found of High Fantasy ... And their only size is BIG.

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

Want to play?
@Mavey @hannah-leeloo @Arvena @NatalieR

TheSpineView Thanks for playing and happy Tuesday! 🤩 2y
NatalieR Thanks for the tag! 😊 2y
mavey Thanks for the tag! 2y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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Interview with a Vampire was the gateway drug that led me to the world of supernatural, gothic, fantasy novels. Some of the years since then, *every* book I read had vampires or other supes.

I judge every fantasy author who creates a vampire mythos with Rice‘s books as my yardstick. I truly hate the question, “what‘s your favorite book?” my best answer is Rice‘s The Witching Hour. I‘m due for a reread of that one.

Requiescat in pace, ma‘am.

Leftcoastzen 😢 2y
Chrissyreadit I feel the same way. The Witching Hour gave me a major book hangover. It is one of a few books I also plan to reread someday. 2y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Chrissyreadit I‘m not a rereader either. Diana Gabaldon and Anne Rice are my limits … 2y
Gissy 😢💔 2y
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sprainedbrain
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This one stings… I‘ve spent many happy hours with Anne Rice‘s words over the last 25 years. While not all of her books did it for me, the ones that did were memorable, magical reading experiences.

RIP, Anne Rice 💔

Crazeedi Oh no, very sad 💔 2y
Chrissyreadit I did not expect to see this. I agree about it hurting - her books were significant and among my favorites in the 80‘s and 90‘s. 2y
johncadams Can't believe she's gone. 2y
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Enchanted_Bibliophile
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Read-y_Picker Really need to re-read this asap ❤ 2y
Enchanted_Bibliophile @Read-y_Picker I'm only 60 pages in, but I'm really enjoying it. The "Lasher" mystery have me hooked. 2y
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monalyisha
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@mklong I‘m goin‘ in!

My familiar is largely uninterested in modeling this morning. Naps are far more pressing. 😅

#BWS #BasicWitchSwap

mklong Eek! I hope you love it! The baked goods are still en route. USPS decided to take their time with those 🤦🏻‍♀️ 2y
rabbitprincess Moxie looks like she‘s eyeing up the box as a possible snack 😂😻 2y
monalyisha @rabbitprincess Much like her Mom, she‘s ALWAYS looking for a possible snack. 😆 2y
sharread What a cute bunny 🐰 I have 2. 2y
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LeslieO
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🧙‍♀️Aside from Harry, I think I prefer witches.
🧙🏻The tagged book is one of my favs.

Anyone want to play?

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DarkMina
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Eggs Perfect 👌🏼🎃🖤 2y
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Ast_Arslan
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I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it. Some will be old, some will be new - don't judge me, I have a lot of books.

Day 39th

Join the fun if you want!

#tbrpile

persephone1408 This one is also on my to read list 3y
Ast_Arslan @persephone1408 😂🤟🏻 similar tastes 3y
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Quill_Cadence
The Witching Hour | Anne Rice

A reread.

I love Anne Rice no matter how descriptive her form of writing is.

Wanting to finish her Mayfair witches trilogy.

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STORYBOOK-CAFE
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Pickpick

[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." (The New York Times Book Review)

Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches - a family given to poetry, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.

KathyWheeler I like this book but I still remember how mad I was when I finished it. There was no mention that it would be a series when it first came out, so I thought I was reading a stand-alone. As I was approaching the end, it was clear that it couldn‘t be. I was not in the mood for a series back then. 3y
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TheBookStacker
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Here my tentative TBR for #Scarathlon2020 I have other physical books but these have been sitting on my kindle for quite some time so I figured now is good as any! #TeamHarkness

Points: 26/26

Addison_Reads Great choices. I really enjoyed The Hunger. I look forward to seeing what you think. 4y
amywithbooks The Hunger is so good- perfect Halloween read! 4y
NikkiM5 Nice. I just looked up White Out, adding to my TBR. 4y
Palimpsest I really want to finish reading The Witching Hour, but I was creeped out. Still really want to know what happens. 🙈 4y
StayCurious Great plan! +26 (add +1 for each participation post) 4y
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MoonWitch94
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The show has taken over my life! Thus is the life of a thespian! 🤣🤪 #BasicWitchSwap & #HauntedHallowSwap peeps! I will post my aesthetics today! 👍🏻

wanderinglynn 🎃🖤🧡☠️ 4y
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Traci1
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What $8 gets you at the friends of the library sale. I've read the Anne Rices, but it's been a couple decades, and I loved them, so I figure it's time for a reread.

#MummiesAndWitchesAndZombiesOhMy
🧟‍♂️

Ruthiella A planned re-read is perfect excuse to buy a big, fat used paperback! 4y
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emz711
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Yeah, taking the afternoon off was a good idea.
#beach

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emz711
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I'm about half of the way through and surprisingly into it!
#witches #nola #knitting

MsMelissa I loved this one. 4y
emz711 @Book_Fiend_Melissa it's my first Anne Rice! Recommend any others? 4y
MsMelissa To be honest, this one is my favourite of hers. I read the other two books in the trilogy—Taltos and Lasher—but neither were anywhere as good as this one. I haven‘t read her Vampire books, but I think they are the more popular series. 4y
emz711 @Book_Fiend_Melissa it's a trilogy!? 🌋 I should read my Goodreads closer! 4y
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sprainedbrain
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Day 6 of my #20Series20Days #Top20Series

This one comes with a disclaimer... these books are messy and have triggers galore, so I only recommend them to people who do a little research first. 😉 Also, they are ridiculously long books.

That said, I love the Mayfair Witches books. I have a love/hate relationship with Anne Rice‘s work, but there‘s no denying she‘s a talented author with a deep well of fantasy in her brain.

TrishB I enjoyed these 👍🏻 4y
LeahBergen I read these all when they first came out. 😆 4y
Bluebird I loved the witching hour! It was my favorite book for several years. I didn‘t care for the others as much though. 4y
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Andrew65 Not read any of these. 4y
Zoes_Human Love The Witching Hour. It's one of her best books. 4y
DGRachel I loved The Witching Hour, but I remember being so mad that she was making it a series instead of a stand-alone that I flat out refused to read the subsequent books (I was 18, cut me some slack 🤣🤣). Of course, I still haven‘t gone back to them to read them... 4y
readordierachel I bought The Witching Hour in a used book shop a while back based on your review 🙂 4y
thebookishnerd Ahh!! Another TBR. The list never stops!! 4y
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emz711
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You know when you curbside pickup a book at your library but forget to check how many pages it is?

Just thankful my library is open!
#oops #libraries #ilikebigbooksandicannotlie #ilikebigbooks #bigbooks

LeslieO I read this one a long time ago and LOVED it. 4y
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