The Witching Hour

A book about the lives of some people in New Orleans. A lot of character building, no plot. The problem is the characters are mundane. There is nothing exceptional about them.

Imagine your aunt telling the history of her life, in painstakingly details. Where she went to school, for how long, her relationship with her father...

The first chapter was omniscient enough. I thought it was VERY slowly building up the witches plot, making some brief and vague mentions regarding the Mayfair family. But then came chapter two, “The Life of Walter”. He has some ESP abilities, such as seeing images by touching objects and even by just coming near them sometimes. You might think the chapter would be interesting. It was not. I trudged on, but then skipped it.

I should have stopped then, but I continued reading because Anne Rice has become my favorite author. The next chapter was about father Mathew. It soon became clear what kind of book this is.

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