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Lasher (Lives of the Mayfair Witches) | 
| Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 14349
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0345397819
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345397812
Publication Date: August 1, 1995
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Condition: ACCEPTABLE with noted wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. May contain highlighting, inscriptions or notations. We offer a no-hassle guarantee on all our items. Orders generally ship by the next business day. Default Text
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Amazon.com Review
At the center of this dark and compelling tale is Rowan Mayfair, queen of the coven, who must flee from the darkly brutal, yet irresistable demon known as Lasher. With a dreamlike power, this wickedly seductive entity draws us through twilight paths, telling a chilling and hypnotic story of spiritual aspiration and passion.
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"SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rice's title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and ultimately tragic creature--is fascinating."
--The Miami Herald
"BEHIND ALL THE VELVET DRAPES AND GOSSAMER WINDING SHEETS, THIS IS AN OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY SAGA....Rice's descriptive writing is so opulent it almost begs to be read by candlelight."
--The Washington Post Book World
"RICE SEES THINGS ON A GRAND SCALE...There is a wide-screen historical sweep to the tale as it moves from one generation of witches to the other."
--The Boston Globe
"EROTIC...EERIE...HORRIFYING...A tight tale of the occult in present-day New Orleans...Anne Rice is a spellbinding novelist.... LASHER quenches."
--Denver Post
A MAIN SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD(c)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 108 more reviews...
 Loved Witching Hour...what happened? June 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Anne Rice June 4, 2008
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!
LOVED THIS BOOK TOO!!!! January 30, 2008
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!!!!
Needs an editor, badly January 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Not Free SF Reader September 3, 2007
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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