A review by cecilyroseceillam
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

I throughly enjoyed a re read of the witching hour, still one of my favourite books in the vampire chronicles. I love the gothic setting and how you can feel lashers presence throughout the entire book and the prose, I also liked the Mayfair house was a character in itself and deteriorated and built itself up linking to the events happening in the book. I also liked the Ergodic aspects in the book where the story and history of the mayfairs is told through computer files and conversations overheard and people’s memories. It added to the atmosphere extremely well and made the mayfairs feel even more mysterious and powerful than what they already are. The gothic setting and descriptions present were very beautiful too and extremely lush and alive like the flowers being described. The science was also interesting and its conversations of cells, chromosomes and other things and I also enjoyed all the philosophical and religious conversations present too. I also really enjoyed seeing how this book slot into the vampire chronicles and seeing it link the first 5 books and the similarities between lasher and ahmel. Would recommend the witching hour if you’re a fan of old gothic novels like Rebecca and mrs dalloway.
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