Preemptive spoiler and NSFW, incase discussions get into spoilers. The book is dark, upsetting, uncomfortable, deeply sexy (except for some messed up circumstances), and I think distinctly feminine in its approach to the horror (I’m reading as a cis male). Just a wonderful piece of horror literature. I started it back in October, feeling particularly witchy this year, pairing the book with watching *The Witch* and *Suspiria* among others. The middle is definitely dense while we’re in the middle of a budding, ominous romance intertwined with demonology and ghost stories but it’s all necessary to inform the emotions and stakes by the end. I love New Orleans as a setting, the book is dripping with the heady spiritual atmosphere.
2 chapters into *Lasher* and we’re already just as messed up as the previous book. I’m all in to see where this ride goes!
by C_The_Bear
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I didn’t like Lasher at all and actually never finished. I did love the Witching Hour, though.
Honestly Lasher almost ruins the magic of the first book. The plot goes completely off the rails and not in a good way.
In the end I disliked the book. I liked the atmosphere, and the mystery in the beginning but was bored by the flashbacks and hated the idea of a “devil” behind the witchcraft. And it felt like another form of abuse. Never startet Lasher but decided, that I leave it with my memories to the vampire stories.
I remember not loving Lasher or Taltos, Witching Hour was great though
About 15 years ago I actually went through my copies of the Mayfair series and highlighted the good parts. I kept all the Mayfair history, but removed stuff like the MC enjoying being raped and a lot of boring yammering. I ended up with 2/3 of the series intact, a great story about a really dysfunctional family, but nothing that made me barf in my mouth.