Anne Rice's Mayfair Chronicles: 3-Book Boxed Set: The Mayfair Witches, Lasher, and Taltos (Lives of Mayfair Witches)

Anne-Marie (Annie) Kosar

MAGICAL, ETHEREAL & MAGNIFICENT!!!!

"What a GORGEOUS & life changing set of books about the Mayfair witches!!!! I loved and adored EVERY SINGLE SECOND of this masterpiece!!! This tale whisks you away and you will become completely engrossed in the rich history, sensuous and beautifully haunting descriptions of the mesmerizing settings, and fall utterly and hopelessly in love with SOOO many of the well developed and infinitely complex and irrisistable characters!!!:-). What a phenomenal author!!!!:-). I wish I could give it five MILLION stars!!!!⭐️. If you want a fascinating and lucious paranormal escape, then this set is for you!!!!:-). TIMELESS!!! LOVED IT!!!:-) ["

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March 28, 2024 Verified Purchase

Thomas A. Overstreet

Two Reviews In One

"I really should have known as Kindle has done this to my several times before. I've read many of Anne Rices novels in the past and really enjoy her writing and twists on well used characters. I'm more than half way through this series and while much of it entails soft porn and incest the span of the story is huge and interesting. Do yourself a favor and get the individual books instead of this collection. It's the Kindle file itself is what I have an issue with. The percentage seems to be tracking correctly but the page numbering is not working correctly. The seem to have added nearly a 100 pages to the first book with their reorganizing and at the end of the first book on page 1039 the page numbers lock up on page 1039 for the rest of the collection which should be another 1100 plus pages. I like to know where I'm at in a book and it helps with the flow of a book. Hope this helps ["

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April 15, 2026 Verified Purchase

Still Reading Here

This bundle contains three books in one

"This bundle contains three books in one: The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos. The Witching Hour is dense and detailed, but incredibly immersive, a 5-star read. LOVED! Lasher continues the story well and was a strong 4.5-star experience for me, with continued world-building. Taltos provides important story information but felt longer and more drawn out than necessary, landing closer to 3 stars. Overall, this is a rich, gothic series best suited for readers who enjoy slow, detailed storytelling and don’t mind taking their time. ["

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January 13, 2026 Verified Purchase

Deborah Gross

The Witching Hour (the 1st book) Minding blowing good!

"Wow! this was my first anne rice experience and I was not disappointed! Anne takes us through many generations (13) of woman witche and their families (the Mayfair's), some how drawing in the reader as she goes. It's a fascinating epic story line (500 hundred years) that is so well detailed that one feels they are a part of her journey through time. It's a long book, over 1,000 pages, but the prose it so interesting I could not put it down. I found myself putting off tasks just so I could read this book. The story eventually takes us to New Orleans at the end of 1800 where Anne Rice is from, depicting actual places and events that still exist today. The book has so many twist and turns through the Mayfair history and Anne does creepy so well. Also the sex, when it's not incestuous, is excellent and done with taste. This book is now on my top ten list! There are just a few parts that slow down but muscle through them because it's so worth it in the end! ["

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November 12, 2015 Verified Purchase

JerzeeTomato0109

A Seductive, Spellbinding Read

"The Mayfair Witches is a seductive entree into the lives of an intriguing extended New Orleans family with an age-old secret. Once you get past Ms Rice's obsession with the male sexual member and rape, you find yourself getting caught up in the family's history, travails, dislocations, and actually caring about the family members. I first read The Witching Hour (the original name of her first book of the trilogy when it was originally published in the 1980s. When I began reading it, the story started to sound like a 'bodice rippper,' a genre I've never liked and derided. I'm not a prude, but gratuitous sex, violence, etc., turns me off. Nevertheless, I plowed on having read and enjoyed Ms. Rice's 'Feast of All Saints.' I found myself getting hooked on the Mayfairs and all the avenues by way of other people who play important parts in the future of the family. And, of course, one learns of The Talamasca, the organization that watches. Reading this trilogy is like going into a garden, rife with exotic and dangerous blooms, stately and menacing trees, mind-bending mazes and getting lost but not caring because of the scent of those flowers that might lull you into giving up your soul. It's a wonderful well-written saga of a Southern family as American as apple pie, Salem, and the Devil and Daniel Webster. It's worthy enough to remain a classic, a great example of Southern writing at its best. ["

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January 4, 2018 Verified Purchase