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This is not a poorly written book, but I felt extremely betrayed by Rice in this follow-up to the Witching Hour. She presented Rowan Mayfair as a strong, willful, intelligent woman in WH and it allowed her to come through some incredibly trying moments. I had a great deal of respect for her, and suddenly in Lasher when confronted with this ghost of the mayfairs she becomes trite, weak, passive and grossly contemptuous. She has a wonderful husband but her knees weaken and she becomes utterly silly in the ghosts presence. I feel as if Anne twists her characters to be sexually willful to the point that they have lost all other traits in its wake. Now sexual attraction can be extremely influencial; it may even cause a person to do things uncharacteristically, but it won't change a person's core personality. I felt such disappointment in Rowan, a character I had come to admire and it really ruined the experience for me.
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This is the second book in Anne Rice's Mayfair Trilogy. It is an incredible read from start to finish. Anne Rice takes you to wherever the character is and very simply draws you completely into the book. Fantastic read!
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Loved it, Loved it, Loved it!!!!! Again Rice dives into such a rich history family that sometimes it is overwhelming but some of the things that have gone on in that family! GEEZ!!!!! I got so emotionally involed with these characters that I was FURIOUS when Rowan Ran away with Lasher!!! My poor Michael! LOL~ Loved this story, sometimes it was a little overwhelming but stick with it! I think it was well worth it!!!!
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Anne Rice's greatest strength has always been her colourful writing, her lavish imagery, and her descriptive prowess. Her greatest weakness has always been the recycling of character traits from book to book (one suspects these are merely traits of Ms. Rice herself) and never coming up with anything new or interesting. She is seemingly incapable of creating ugly or interesting characters, preferring them to be beautiful, brilliant, and ultimately one-dimensional.
All of these problems are painfully present in Lasher and obfuscate what might have been a really clever story. The characters of Rowan, Michael, Julien and Mona were ridiculous and laughable and made it impossible to take this book seriously.
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Another heaping helping of Mayfair witches, spirits, and incest. Rowan has vanished, and a precocious teenaged Mayfair witch appears in this book. She goes after Rowan's husband, and Lasher kidnaps her and gets her pregnant multiple times, finally resulting in a child.
Some scientific investigating shows Rowan is a freak, so Lasher's plan to pump his seed into all the Mayfair witches may not do much, as the reason he was successful with Rowan was because of her mutant nature.
Not a lot of point to this, I think.
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