Reviews tagging 'Incest'

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

44 reviews

katiebeedc's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, and Incest

mistymoon24's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.75

Well written and the family history was interesting, but I hated the main premise of the story and the ghost.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, and Pedophilia

lyfeistrip's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Violence, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Murder, Medical content, Sexual assault, Rape, Gore, Death, Child death, Car accident, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Colonisation, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Racial slurs, Pedophilia, Miscarriage, Mental illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Classism, Death of parent, Infertility, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racism, Toxic friendship, Violence, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Rape, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Cancer, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Infidelity, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Torture, Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Murder, and Sexual violence

booklover_17's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Incest, and Violence

lil1inblue's review against another edition

I just couldn't with the racism, or the incest, or the rape. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Incest, Pedophilia, and Rape

Moderate: Racism, Slavery, and Sexism

fleetylou's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pedophilia, and Incest

letter2self's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

2.5

There are aspects of this book that aged like milk. Rape, Mysogony, incest and all the black characters seemed to be servants of some kind. 

From a horror perspective, it's extremely disturbing. However, it is very long and drawn out and at least 1/3 of not half of this book could have been cut. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape and Racism

moreau's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

2.5

so. boring. i cant believe i finished this, it had some good bits. i really liked all the talamasca files on the history of the family. but the present day situation is just so dull. rowan isnt an interesting main character, her only character development is getting progressively more annoying. i do not care for the pro life rants, incest or atrociously written sex scenes. this could've been good if it was about petyr or stuart townsend, i love stuart townsend. michael is boring as hell too, at least he liked the invisible man though, which is more interesting than this shit. also jimmy barnes??? people outside of Australia know Barnsy? why? so far i way prefer the tv series to the book series because at least rowan isn't the most 2d character ever. love suzanne though, rest in peace suzanne mayfair you would've loved steeleye span. also i get why theyre rich but i hate that every character in every anne rice book has to be rich, like its not even just money isnt covered, theyre ALWAYS rich, attracted to men, annoying and white. every man is gay or bisexual and every woman is straight. i really like lasher though, i think he's really interesting so i'll try read the 2nd book and hope it's more interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Medical content, Incest, Body horror, Sexual content, Rape, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer

circe813's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Stalking, Alcohol, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Rape, Death, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, and Child abuse

sailormollie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Incredibly well-written with compelling characters and story building. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Incest

Moderate: Rape

An exorbitant amount of incest.