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I actually quite enjoyed this book up until the very end, when I felt like the main female character just had some sort of weird personality seizure and did something that the character as you've come to know her just wouldn't have done. It just made it seem poorly written to me, like Ms. Rice decid Leggi tutto

It feels like a slow seduction. You felt the foreboding first. Vicious, poisonous, catastrophic…all mingled together, a darkness so black and deep. You felt the dizziness. A history brought you to various places, New Orleans, Amsterdam, France, Port-air-Prince. A history that was a secret itself. Ince Leggi tutto

I got this book for Christmas that year. This was my first ever Anne Rice book, and it was about a year after Interview With A Vampire came out as a movie with Brad Pitt, Christian Slater and Tom Cruise. I was blown away people. If you like a story, like Gone With the Wind on crack, no seriously, ep Leggi tutto

What a queer little book (although at 1207 pages, little isn't the right word)! This was my first attempt at Anne Rice and I fear it might well be my last. Halfway through "The Witching Hour" , I was absolutely enthralled. I loved the idea of The Talamasca. At that stage of the story, I would have lov Leggi tutto

One of my top 3 favorite novels of all time. Anne Rice gets a bad rap for being pure shlock, but what most people who haven't read her don't realize is that she is obsessed with history. She studies a particular time period, learns everything she can about it, and then creates characters and sticks

I FINALLY finished this. Good Lord, what a long winded mess this was. All the wordy history was boring but I stuck it out then ended up hating the ending! Why in the world to I keep reading Anne Rice?

Review is tainted by romance. When my man and I first moved into the Garden District last summer (while I was still a bartender) we moved into a pristine apartment with a gallery balcony which overlooked Chestnut street. Left in our room in an otherwise pristine apartment was a box of clutter left by Leggi tutto