
The Witching Hour
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Narrated by:
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Kate Reading
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Anne Rice
"[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.
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"[A] huge and sprawling tale of horror." (The New York Times Book Review)
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The additional bonus for me is that it's narrated by Kate Reading. She's one of my favorite narrators.
Well worth the time for Anne Rice fans...
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slow start
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Finally!
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Where does The Witching Hour rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I loved it! Kate Reading was great and the story compelled me. It is very long and very descriptive. Some people may find it too monotonous if they aren't into long descriptions of setting.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Witching Hour?
I thought the end was quite good and I love all the mysticism and mystery wrapped around the characters and the city.Which scene was your favorite?
I really can't decide. Something great in too many of them.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
There was a lot of shock. More than a couple of ah-ha moments that made me excited.Great! But maybe not for everyone.
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By the way, Kate Reading who narrated this book was OUTSTANDING! She gets 5 stars for her performance!
Great until the end!!!
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Anne Rice is a genius.
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It’s all about what you enjoy in a book.
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Amazing Story!
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excellent book
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The narrator however is absolutely terrible for this story. Probably not as bad for other books, but a terrible choice for this book. Nobody in New Orleans talks like someone in Brooklyn. Listening to a deep south husband and wife talk sounded like watching a sitcom set in New York City or something. None of the accents were correct. Literally not one single person spoke the way they were intended to. I live in Arkansas just a few miles from Louisiana, and I can promise you not a single Cajun speaks that way. I almost quit reading for that reason. It was so hard to push through the story listening to that woman murder the accents. The author obviously knows New Orleans, but that narrator...just make it stop.
That is my only advice. If you can find a different recorded version of this book with a different narrator, go with that one. It wouldn't be such a big deal if the location wasn't such a huge part of the story. New Orleans is almost like another character in the book, and it was almost like nails on a chalk board listening to the people there talk.
It is worth it.
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