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Joshua de Vries

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Outstanding!

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Évalué le: 2023-12-22

I loved this book so much! The narration is flawless, the story is incredible, and there are moments that genuinely made me tear up in the best way.

Could not recommend this one enough!

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Unsatisfying Conclusion

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2 out of 5 stars

Évalué le: 2023-01-07

The Witching Hour is one of Anne Rice’s best books. This one just feels like an extended epilogue filled with all manner of strange digressions. And with as much time as is spent wrapping everything up, the final lines feel incredibly unsatisfying.
Kate Reading is incredible, and if you want to be a completionist and read all three Mayfair books, her narration is excellent and elevates the material really well, but just in terms of the story, it’s clear Rice ran out of ideas and allowed the story to fizzle out.

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A Literary Masterwork

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Évalué le: 2019-03-05

I should start off by saying that Mitchell's version of events following the American Civil War are VERY slanted and more characters grow more outspokenly racist as the story progresses. HOWEVER, it does offer insight into just why Southerners today can't seem to let the Civil War go. It's this version of events, regardless of the actual truth, that they cling to. So just go into this one knowing that you're seeing things through the lenses of a victimized South lorded over by corrupt Yankees and hordes of dangerous freed slaves. It's not a history book. It's a fairy tale, but one that's told with great passion.

With that said, Mitchell is one of the most accomplished writers I have ever encountered. Her characters are flawed, complex, relatable, multi-faceted, and compelling. Her prose is swift and descriptive, and her dialogue crackles with wit and emotion and humour. Scarlett and Rhett are some of my favourite literary characters ever, specifically because they are so flawed and human. They're selfish, manipulative, beset by insecurities, and are able to dig deep and find the strength they need to survive the Civil War, even if it means they have to abandon their moral center. They're not GOOD people, but they're compelling anti-heroes you can't help but root for.

I also LOVE the narrator of this audiobook, Linda Stephens. Her accents and voices are perfect, and when she encounters any songs, she sings them with a perfect clear voice that was so surprising, considering most other narrators either recite song lyrics or try to sing and end up butchering them.

This is a fantastic yarn that, despite its length, is impossible to stop listening to. The brutal racism is very difficult to get through, though, and there are parts (liberal uses of the N word) that children should definitely not hear, so I'd suggest sticking with headphones. But I think this is an important text, if only so one can get inside the heads of the South after the Civil War, so you can understand just why they mistrust the North so much.

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