The Witching Hour (Unabridged)
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- $32.99
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- $32.99
Publisher Description
"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." —The New York Times Book Review
Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches—a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.
Moving in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and the France of Louis XIV, from the coffee plantations of Port-au-Prince to Civil War New Orleans and back to today, Anne Rice has spun a mesmerizing tale that challenges everything we believe in.
Customer Reviews
Loved it
Great read! Read this after watching the TV show really wish the TV show had followed the book better. Would highly recommend a someone else had to speed up the voice it does make it easier to read if you’re not used to that slow southern accent.
Kate is a fantastic narrator!
And Anne Rice has written a book to get lost in. I did listen to this on a faster speed because if you listen at regular speed the southern drawl with the long syllables and vowels makes this a very long book to listen to. The narrator is really great at capturing distinct vocal differences between the characters. I did get bored in the beginning with all the historical elements and paused listening to it for several months and I recently started again and sped up the audio and I’ve enjoyed it a lot more, since. Can’t wait to listen to Lasher!
Awesome Narration, Gripping Story
I almost didn’t take a chance on this due to other reviews saying the narrator’s style annoyed them. But I love this novel and unabridged is all I bother with, so I listened to the preview. The narrator is a little monotone in the first few minutes but then that stopped and she won me over entirely. I love when they do different voices for characters if they aren’t too odd and she does this very well. It is a very subjective thing to like or not like a narrator, but a few reviews by those who don’t like it do not mean someone else will agree. Listen to the preview. If you love this novel, give it a shot. I can’t wait to get back to it each day and I will listen to it more than once.