Paperback, 763 pages
French language
Published Aug. 13, 2004 by Robert Laffont.
Sous le porche dune vieille demeure à l'abandon de La Nouvelle-Orléans, une femme frêle et muette se balance dans un rocking-chair : Deirdre Mayfair est devenue folle depuis qu'on lui a retiré, à la naissance, sa fille Rowan pour l'envoyer vivre à San Francisco.
Et derrière la grille du jardin, un homme, Aaron Lighter, surveille inlassablement Deirdre, comme d'autres avant lui, pendant des siècles, ont secrètement surveillé la famille Mayfair. Car ils savent que, de génération en génération, les femmes du clan se transmettent leurs maléfiques pouvoirs et que la terrifiante et fabuleuse histoire de cette lignée de sorcières ne fait que commencer... --back cover
A story that could have been told in a quarter the length. Well written enough that when I picked up the book I felt like I was entering another world. But it’s one I skim read through, nothing to be gained from circular flowery writing, pages and pages of characters explaining stuff to eachother.
Necrophilia and rape isn’t really my jam either.
The book endorsement on the back cover of my paperback edition claims that Anne Rice surpasses Stephen King. I do not believe that to be true!
This is quite a long-winded tedious story that could have been much fewer pages. It might make for great movie/series or whatever, but took a long time to get rolling.
This is my first experience with a book by Anne Rice so I will accept that I might have had a better experience starting with some other story. There is a good chance I will not try another book by this author, however I am interested to sample the Mayfair Witches tv series. Lots of space to for the experiences of a hapless husband married to a witch; "Bewitched" anyone? (... I don't think so)
