Reviews tagging 'Incest'

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

82 reviews

kenoughbi's review against another edition

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4.0

listen i enjoyed reading it for the most part but wtf, especially with the ending
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lilythegoblin's review against another edition

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Alot of instances of incest and/or pedophilia. 
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cuteasamuntin's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I’m not sure I particularly liked this book. It isn’t a particularly fun or nice read, but I can already tell that it’s going to really stick with me. While it’s slow enough that I was at times impatient for Rice to get on with it, the narrative was still very compelling.

I really enjoyed the family chronology and learning more about the Talamasca. My favorite parts were 1) the deep and pure expressions of familial and romantic love dappled throughout an otherwise grim and haunting story and 2) Michael
in a joyous frenzy over restoring the house, to the point that I was hanging onto every word about his historically accurate and thoughtful renovations
, but the latter is probably just a hazard of my day job.

Funnily enough, I just didn’t care at all about the spirit Lasher, to the point that I found myself actively bored when
he is finally present in the narrative and begins interacting directly with Rowan
. I think this may have been a stronger story without that aspect being so explicitly present. This may, of course, be in part to already knowing the general principles of how spirits/“demons” work in the Anne Rice universe due to being a dedicated admirer of Maharat and her Great Family™ from The Vampire Chronicles. 

For audiobook listeners, the talented Kate Reading really makes this heavy tome a lot less of a slog. 
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essie85's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

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j_nell's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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arhodes's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

The lore and the story of this book is really good…. But it is so long and dense. I would say only about 2/3 of it had actual plot development, and there were maybe only 3 total scenes out of this 1000+ where I was truly captivated. Again, really cool plot but I think I would have liked it more if it were broken up and arranged differently. Also,
holy shit, so much incest.
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alkeeco's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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stacylaughs's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

This book is so long! It could easily be three books, but a lot of it is written about the past, which all makes sense at the end. 
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joystickchevron's review against another edition

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dark mysterious slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I really enjoyed the epic of the Mayfairs and as always Anne’s descriptions were exquisite, but Michael and Rowan were not compelling characters at all. 

The
Petyr/Charlotte
incest scene and
Lasher’s birth
were quite possibly the most horrifying things I’ve ever read
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aliceing's review against another edition

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challenging dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
DNF'd - it was all a little horny and then the library audiobook app said your time is up someone else is in line, and i just wasn’t invested enough to get back in line to renew

came back - reader, I got back in line to renew. This was a ride! Very dark and disturbing at the end, the use of the word "cock" spikes, and it's just not fabulous in the audiobook. Major TW for incest all the way through until the end;
the parts where Rowan is sort of fantasizing about Lasher in human form, kind of her son ???, were the worst
. 

That all said, it's definitely gripping and a real odyssey to read. A book this long I would often say should be edited or broken up, but I do think it works. Do not think this will be a reread but glad I did.
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