"This is no longer a family tree; it's just a few sticks on the ground." 🤣 I love your summaries so much!

Anne Rice was that quiet girl that you gotta watch! 😂

“Who hurt you Anne Rice?” Well she went to catholic school so that tracks.

Thank you for vou sacrifice, this book is...something 🤣

I read this book when I was 13, and was being sexually assaulted by my father. I felt a sense of empowerment because she was in charge of herself. Years of therapy later, I definitely cringe at the whole book.

Since Mona was such a huge part of the books and even crosses over to the vampire books, do you think she will be introduced in Season 2? I imagine they would have to age her up because this story would not fly in this day and age with a sexually promiscuous 13 year old! Thank you for this summary as I had forgotten much of the book.

I read the first chapter of this, realized what I was getting into, and quit the book. I feel like this was a wise decision. Unfortunately, upon watching this video, I realized I read this back in middle or high school, and all the flashbacks came back.

To hear it out loud makes me wonder if I blocked most of it out when I read it. Lol😂

I am obsessed with your renditions of Anne Rice and her books. I read these books in high school and then I was waiting for them to turn it into a series 4 I guess over 20 years now and I am so happy that they did although it’s kind of different and I wish they would’ve stuck more to the book as usual but I freaking love your breakdowns of these books. It is hilarious and refreshing and you are doing a great service to humanity. Thank you.

Thanks for jumping on this grenade for me 😂

ok let the peer pressure continue. WE NEED TALTOS pleaaseee.

I read them when they were released. I thought then it would be hard to put to film. Turns out I was correct. I did love the books.

Had a similar reaction reading this book a long time ago, essentially gross and YIKES, and never got around to the next one in the series. I actually really dig the long backstory flashbacks in her books, but the child sexualization made me have to stop reading her books multiple times. I guess there's an argument that it's good horror because it definitely freaks me out. Also normally feel very uncomfortable and weirded out by pregnancy and birthing, so the extra body horror and descriptions in this one plus the sexual assaults everywhere was too much for me and killed my interest in the series. When I heard they were turning this series into a tv show, I was pretty shocked. Curious how much they will change for season two of Mayfair Witches. I actually liked a lot of the changes they made in the show to tone stuff down. Hopefully they keep Julien as a major character as he's one of my favorites. Thanks for reading this and summarizing/reviewing for us. Cute hoodie btw!

Thanks for the summary because my head was exploding.... like darn, a 13 year old and all of the other graphics. It had me wondering who the target audience for this book was? There were too many sexual taboo lines crossed.

I think the wildest/worst part of the book was when they were talking about all of the physical trauma Rowan had undergone because of the continuous 🍇. The fact that she had a hip fracture just continues to haunt me.

Well, holee smokes, lol. I love how you tell a story. You're awesome

I don't think I can even really remember all the wild turns this book took. They are all blending together at this point.

I thought this wouldn’t be until April. What a pleasant surprise!

I felt wrong just reading this book. What the AF was wrong with Ann Rice?!?!?

Great Video! I love all your Anne Rice Vids! New sub here. Thanks for all the work and time you put into these. 😀

I can’t believe that I read this when I was 15

Lasher was WAY weirder than Witching Hour

I was wondering if they were going to be able to put the other two books into the series. Personally, I don't see how, but the series seems to be off in its own direction anyway. I am rereading the "Mayfair Witches" trilogy, but at the rate it's taking me to get through the first one, I might not make it. 😄🙄 (I'm 73.) I read them for the first time in my 30s. Yeah, seriously, that's some crazy shit. 😁😃

Hahaha "this is not a family tree but a stick on the ground" haha

I read these when they came out. I wouldn’t watch the series those. I don’t think it could compete with the very graphic movie that was conjured in my mind. I thought I was going to hell but compelled to finish the series. I’m from south Louisiana and live in Destin. I had so much fascination for Lasher. Like passing a car wreck and having to look. 😳

Bless you child, for taking another one for the team. Did you have a wall mounted suspect board to keep track of all the plots and characters?

WTF is this book series? Like, Anne Rice must've been just completely unhinged by this point.

I just finished this book and like to listen to ur recaps to make sure I didn't miss anything 😂 this one was great for me, not as hard to get through as the Witching Hour, which was still pretty great to me. I'm up to Merrick in the Vampire chronicles which ppl say is where they come together so I'm moving on to Taltos next 😁

As soon as you started talking about the milk thing, I knew you'd show Homelander at one point. xD

Yeah, that ending was crazy!! Lol

I loved Anne rice before she went all crazy religious. She was truly mad in the best way possible. A true goth icon

Thanks!

Oh, hell YEAH! I thought the same kinda things when I read this book! I was floored and felt like I’d gone through a bad roller coaster ride. Up to end of Witching Hour, I thought Lasher was a simple demon (servant of Satan) or even the Devil himself. Once I got through this book I thought, ok now AR is mixing in sci-fi along with a heavier dose of the Sleeping Beauty series she released under the Ann Roqu___n pseudonym. This book just made me think of that old drug commercial…This is your brain on drugs (fried egg)! This is your brain after reading Lasher!! 🍳🍳 And oh yes, the whole banging out Taltoses one after another was like the ultimate gut twisting moments. I just had to grab the next book to find out what happened, how could AR get anymore out of control crazy stuff to top this??? Hold my beer? She should have said Hold my six pack. I can’t spoil it for anyone else who hadn’t read Taltos, my friend read the series around the same time I did. She had a different idea about the final book than I did, but we both agreed Lasher was…lashing!! We both felt our minds were lashed with all those hits and strikes. If that was Ann’s objective, she certainly achieved it!! 😵‍💫😮‍💨

Anne Rice….. what the 🦆💩!?! This sounds like a terrible fever dream.

Excellent recap! I just finished Lasher today. WTF is Taltos going to do??? We'll see!

How did Anne Rice get away with it lmao

I a weirdo who loves this series and I’m not easily bothered by taboo content so that might be why. That said, I still love watching your videos because my husband heard me listening to the audiobooks once and was 😱🤯🤢 the same way you are. 😅🤣

Out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on the Blackwood Farm & Blood Canticle books that bring the vamps and witches together?

Who hurt you Anne Rice 😂😂😂😂. This!!!!

Haven’t watched this yet. But coming in think, oof… I feel sorry for you. And I feel sorry for me because I also bread it. Kept hoping the series would get better at some point.

So... How is AMC going to go about this? Got a feeling the wine will need to be updated to gin.

Finally, I knew someone was buried under tv e tree but I couldn't remember who. First off, I love the way you break down the books. You tell it all and you are hilarious. Please keep going its been 20+ yrs since I read the books and your break downs are great at making me remember. So... Yes the sex stuff may seem "gross" as you say but... That is what makes it entertaining. We read to be entertained, and anything you read that makes you say "wow" or "wtf" good or bad gets your attention. To me I like books that get my attention. Granted I wish people would get over complaining about the show.. If you were producing the show yourself picture how you would do it with our culture as it is today. Now cut out or work around the incest. Then you know you don't have time enough to put in ALL the characters in the books, so you need to either combine characters so you can get the important points out, or you cut them out completely. So when you're done you have something very different, but yet it gets across the main story... These books are wild but I love them. Did any of you read the "Flowers in the Attic" (just the main 4)when you were younger? I read them when I was about 13. But a big part of their story is incest, btwn Chris and Cathy. Then you find out their parents were related to each other too etc... They were great books again with an attention getting story. So yes it gets pretty "wtf" but that's what keeps us reading, waiting to see what could possibly happen down the road with these characters. You need to do Taltos now.

I really enjoyed your critique of this book as I read it years ago. In fact, I read The Witching Hour at least three times. I read it maybe like in 2003 during a weird time in my life. I've read all the Witch & Vamp books except for anything after Blood Canticle like Prince Lestat and the Atlantis one. My friend even got a book signed by her for me with my name in it at Comic Con in nyc maybe in 2012, but I lost it. I only have Prince Lestat signed, but w/o my name. I read Servant Of The Bones too. I used to be such an avid reader, but my eyes are shot now. Any recommendations?

Thank you Amanda!!! :)

Love how you tell it 😅❤❤❤

you should read annes autobiography. _JC

Love the name The naughty librarian.

Thank you so much. I read the book years ago but forgot a lot of it.

I'm 2/3rds through this book (for a 2nd time) myself. Good god the characters are all insufferably annoying.

Ohh you have to read Taltos! Please... ⚠️ WARNING⚠️ POSIBLE SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ a nearly extinct human like species, Talto. This book will explain their history, their culture, their infatuation with music, breeding, smell, 🥛 milk 😆 and how it connects to the Mayfair etc. etc. Also, Mona is a big part of this one too. 🍒

Thank you

*11:00** do you know anne past.* it is prett wild. _JC

29:00 it is so funny what taltos look like in my head conon; like, they are so long & big they dont really pass for human at all. _JC

3:50 at least they are also kinda related. oh wait, thats not betr. _JC

Don't know about Mona, she might put that necklace on and call Lasher. If a witch called him back once, a witch can call him back again 😮

42:00 yeah, it is something else hey. _JC

Thanks for this video :)

Can you get drunk and read Peyton Place one day? It was so scandalous back in the day, so I hear, so it might be lots of fun!

Gotta check my copy,I remember her being 11 when she slept with Michael, I wonder if they changed it.

😂😂😂 I told you it was gonna be traumatic!! I think when I read this I was able to handle everything but the gross Mona/Michael sex scenes. I think I tried to just scan through those points and pretend they didn’t happen!

Wow... You skipped over so much lactation

Lasher was great

Re Rice's weird tendency to sexualize underage female characters like Mona...She was pretty up-front in interviews etc about how the reason she did that was how her own youth was so stuffy, raised-Catholic repressed, and she liked unapologetically living out her fantasies of having spent her youth as a wild, free-spirit, deviant naughty girl through her writing...I get how some people get squicked out/find it problematic, but I for one am like, "You go, girl, rock out with your bad self through your art!" This is, I'm sure, colored in part because I first read her myself as a teenage boy, when it wasn't inappropriate for me to find Mona hot, plus I was also raised Catholic, so frankly, I can relate to Rice's inclination to break every taboo that crossed her mind.

*PEER PRESSURE FOR THE WIN!* \^_^/! did you see we didnt get the man-baby? 1:30 hey, thr she is! i was 13 when i read it. & both my parents were drunks! fire. _JC

Taltos please!!!! (😑peer pressure peer pressure peer pressure 🤞)

Let's go

But do taltos have magic like Lasher does? Why is he so powerful? Why doesn’t he have a body? This series is a whole mess