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  • First in the trilogy - Mayfair Witches

  • She gets you hooked right at the beginning, but seems to "go off the deep end" as the story grows. I honestly liked it better the second time I read it, because I was prepared for that. Young woman from San Francisco finds herself discovering a part of her family in New Orleans that she never knew ... Continue

    She gets you hooked right at the beginning, but seems to "go off the deep end" as the story grows. I honestly liked it better the second time I read it, because I was prepared for that. Young woman from San Francisco finds herself discovering a part of her family in New Orleans that she never knew, one with a rich history of witchcraft. A ghost or spirit seems to attach himself to a female member of the family, moving from generation to generation. Our main character becomes his latest "attachment". Can she help him experience more of that "real life" that he craves?

    

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  • This series was consistantly good throughout - it wasn't long enough to lose steam like the vampire series did, although as I understand it the two storylines become interwoven later in the vampire series.

    

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  • 2nd reading on my way to ALA Conference in New Orleans!

    

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"[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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