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Taltos
by: Anne Rice

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345404312
ISBN: 0345404319
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: March 31, 1996
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: March 31, 1996
Studio: Ballantine Books
Sales Rank: 37774

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The Witching Hour (Lives of the Mayfair Witches)

Editorial Review:

Product Description:
"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES . . . Their haunted heritage has brought the family great wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or challenge. . . Rice is a formidable talent. . .
[Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history, and high soap opera."
--The Washington Post Book World
"AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"SPELLBINDING . . . MYTHICAL . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller."
--Cosmopolitan
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN."
--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice."
--The Wall Street Journal

Amazon.com Review:
In a swirling universe filled with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic world that could only come from the imagination of Anne Rice...

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- sweeping epic
I have always been a fan of grand epics, i read "The Lord of the Rings" for fun. i really enjoyed the history and the romance of the story and because of the Mayfair Chronicles, i want to go go to New Orleans and see "the man" for myself.

Rating:

- great story for pedophiles
Hmmm. It's impossible to write about the plot in a coherent manner because there are several intertwining threads:

As the title implies, this book is mainly about the Taltos--a race of beings we were introduced to in The Witching Hour. Ashlar is, or at least believes himself to be, the last of his kind. He's lonely, currently obsessed with dolls (collecting and manufacturing them), and when he discovers another Taltos has been seen, he drops everything to check it out.

And of course there are the Mayfairs, as this is the last book of the Mayfair Witch trilogy. Rowan seems to be following in her mother's footsteps at the beginning of the book, though she's not quite as completely catatonic--she walks, eats, dresses herself, etc., but doesn't speak, communicate, or acknowledge ... Read More

Rating:

- Taltos
The third book in the Mayfair Trilogy just draws it all together and makes you want more! Anne Rice exceeds all expectations!

Rating:

- I am sooooo disapointed!
Taltos in my opinion is the worst of the three mayfair witch books. Unfortunetly you must read it if you have gotten this far in the trilogy. Once again Rowan is annoying!!! It was interesting to find out the true history of the taltos, but somtimes it was a little much. i found myself skimming~ That is soooo not like me, especially since I love this series. The death of Aaron really upset me. All in all it is a great story, however I really think that Rice Fluffed this book up with alot of unneccessary stuff and totally skimped on the ending! The ending STUNK, in my opinion. I am still holding out for another book in this series..............Or maybe a movie!!!!!!!

Rating:

- Not Free SF Reader
The end of this story of spirits and incest, and some back story on the whole Taltos development. It turns out that there are a few of these, and one of them becomes and important character in the book.

Mona finds out she is carrying Rowan's husband's child, and they decide to have it.

Supernatural types end up running away togethre.

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