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Witches' Companion

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"The Witches' Companion" is a very exhaustive encyclopedia of all the terms, characters, locations, and events in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy (The Witching Hour, Lasher, and Taltos). Everything's included in this mammoth 500+-paged book: maps, illustrations and photos, a Mayfair family tree, bits of Anne Rice information, a chronology of important dates, in-depth character biographies, European and American history--the list goes on.

If you're an Anne Rice fan--and especially if you enjoyed the Mayfair trilogy--, then I highly recommend this official reference guide to her popular witch series. It's definitely worth owning, since it answers every question you've ever had about this trilogy and then some.

Also recommended: Katherine Ramsland's "The Vampire Companion".

Unless you have an excellent photographic memory, you need this book. It straightens out and clarifies all of the family lineage, and gives you more background information on locations, people, and objects. It also gives some much needed info on the Talamasca, which is ever-present in Rice's novels. Buy this if you like reading the Mayfair trilogy.

Absolutely the best and easiest way of keeping track of all those long-lost Mayfairs...I bought this after I read the trilogy. As I said, you must have this. This family reminds me of my own in one way, it's huge! I loved this and couldn't put it down, it goes everywhere with me to answer those spur of the moment questions.

Just like The Vampire Companion where you have an enclyopedia for the themes, characters and plots. This is the same for Lives of the Mayfair WItches. This book is much better for RICE fans because you need this companion. With a very good family tree of the Mayfairs and in-depth look at the themes you can understand the Mayfair Witches better. A MUST FOR DIE HARD FANS....

I am a complusive reader of Rice's works. They are always challenging and historically perfect. However, The Lives Of The Mayfair Witches novels became perhaps a little bit TOO challenging when more and more family appeared on the scene. My sister-in-law gave me this companion as a gift three years ago for my plane trip to London. It was the first time I didn't fall asleep on a Transatlantic flight. After using this, I was able to go back and re-read the novels with even greater insight. This is a must-have for readers of the Mayfair books. You cannot truly appreciate Rice's gift without them.

These books are excellent.Anne Rice is a very believeable writer. The insight into the lives of Lasher and the other Mayfair Witches are spellbounding,I could not put the books down. If you would like to read a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat,and very hard to stop reading at bed time,read the Mayfair Witches chronicles. There needs to be more of them!

I bought this used and it was in better shape than I had anticipated. The book itself is an excellent source for the Mayfair Witches Series.

When it was described as "Written in cooperation with Anne Rice," I expected information that Rice 'knew', but didn't include in the books (e.g. the name of Michael's mother, where did Nancy Mayfair come from?) There is little in the book that cannot be pulled from the trilogy. From flipping through and reading maybe 25-30% of the entries I have noticed errors of fact (the Chronology for 1936 says Ryan was born to Cortland and Amanda, but Ryan's father is the older Pierce--Cortland was his grandfather), mistakes in cross-referencing (the entry for 'Judith' directs the reader to 'Chris', but the entry 'Chris' simply redirects the reader to the preferred heading 'Little Chris'), and a number of over-simplifications and, in my opinion, misinterpretations of events. I have found it very disappointing, but it might be helpful for first time readers.

These books are excellent.Anne Rice is a very believeable writer. The insight into the lives of Lasher and the other Mayfair Witches are spellbounding,I could not put the books down. If you would like to read a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat,and very hard to stop reading at bed time,read the Mayfair Witches chronicles. There needs to be more of them!

These books are excellent.Anne Rice is a very believeable writer. The insight into the lives of Lasher and the other Mayfair Witches are spellbounding,I could not put the books down. If you would like to read a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat,and very hard to stop reading at bed time,read the Mayfair Witches chronicles. There needs to be more of them!