6/20/2023 0 Comments The Witching Hour by Anne Rice![]() Michael Curry now finds himself "cursed" with the power of psychometry (extrasensory fingertips) and has to wear gloves to stop the inflow of images. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, alone and stormbound in her yacht, Rowan rescues a floating body from the sea, a wealthy local architect dead for an hour and being instructed by Mayfair figures in the beyond, and brings him back to life. Rowan Mayfair-a San Francisco brain surgeon gifted with second sight, the power to heal (she foretells which cases will live before she lifts her knife), and the power to kill with her mind-was taken at birth from her Mayfair witch mother and raised by an aunt in San Francisco, and never knows until her mother dies that she is to inherit $7.5 billion. It's a couple of hundred pages (or more) before Rice hooks the reader and gets her major characters together the story circles about the Mayfair family (bulking out the book are a few dozen family vignettes) and the generations of Mayfair witches who have accumulated one of the world's great fortunes while awaiting "the thirteenth"-the thirteenth witch in their succession, who will be the doorway by which a supernormal entity enters the human world and takes flesh. ![]() ![]() First behemoth installment (800+ pp.) in a new occult romance by Rice-now moving back into the bougainvillea and the New Orleans Garden District for her steamy new world of southern witchcraft. ![]()
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