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The Witching Hour: A Novel (Lives of Mayfair Witches)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the beloved author of the Vampire Chronicles, the first installation of her spellbinding Mayfair Chronicles--the inspiration for the hit television series!
"Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth."--The Washington Post Book World 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. 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. As 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, an intricate tale of evil unfolds. Moving through time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV's France, and from 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, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel.
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"Extraordinary . . . Anne Rice offers more than just a story; she creates myth."--The Washington Post Book World 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. 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. As 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, an intricate tale of evil unfolds. Moving through time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the Louis XIV's France, and from 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, The Witching Hour is a luminous, deeply enchanting novel.
The magic of the Mayfairs continues:
THE WITCHING HOUR - LASHER - TALTOS
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Community Reviews
I greatly enjoyed this book. It did take me some time to read it, seeing as I have been very busy with work. I even enjoyed reading about the history of the Mayfair witches. That's one of the great things about Anne Rice, she's always historically accurate about time periods and she enjoys writing historically. If you don't enjoy reading things like that, this book is not for you.
It seems that many people were disappointed with the ending of the book, and one of the main characters actions. I actually enjoyed the ending and watching the character shift because of the pressures.
Totally a great read, super recommend this book to any Anne Rice fan.
It seems that many people were disappointed with the ending of the book, and one of the main characters actions. I actually enjoyed the ending and watching the character shift because of the pressures.
Totally a great read, super recommend this book to any Anne Rice fan.
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