As with all gifted authors and great stories, what you take away from a story changes perspective at different points in your life. If you haven't read these in the past decade or more, and you liked them the first time around, you might wish to revisit them. I picked up on much that I'd missed the first time around with both The Witching Hour and Lasher. I quickly realized how interconnected all of her Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches stories are! So back I went to reread all of the Mayfair Witches series. Not from the main branch of the family, but as we learned with Mayfairs, that is seldom reason to assume ANY Mayfair lacks "gifts". That led me to Vampire Chronicles #7: Merrick. Having just picked up "The Prince Lestat", I realized it has been a very loooong time since I read much of Rice's stuff and I'd forgotten a number of salient points. This was actually my second time through all three of these. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice. This mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos.
When he learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting world of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying powers.
She takes with her their terrifying and exquisite child, one of "a brood of children born knowing, able to stand and talk on the first day." Rowan's attempt to escape Lasher and his pursuit of her and their child are at the heart of this extraordinary saga, moving around the globe, backward and forward through time, and between the human and demonic worlds.Īshlar is the last of his race-or so he thinks. Find here the original trilogy from Anne Rice's bestselling series about the lives of Mayfair witches.ĭemonstrating 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.Īt the center of this novel: the brilliant and beautiful Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven - and Lasher, the darkly compelling demon whom she finds irresistible and from whose evil spell and vision she must now flee.
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