I might be a bit late to the party, but well, better late than never!
I am a very picky viewer when it comes to movies and series. I can watch any brain numbing game show, or antiques related show, but for movies and series I lose my patience very quickly, sadly.
So this means that, often I would see five minutes of something, then move to something else and so on, even when I watch TV I flick through the channels consistently. It can be quite challenging to watch TV with me, or so I have been told.
I don’t know, I quite enjoy it!
One evening this week, when I had nothing to watch, I said I must make the most of the Netflix subscription I started to pay for last month. So I went looking through stuff there.
I don’t know how much time I spent opening and closing things, or just watching trailers, some of them are so well (bad?!) made that they reveal the entire content of the series, so no point in watching them really.
Now, you know well I like myself a witch, or quite a few. Ever since I was little I was fascinated by them, and this continues even now when I have gotten in the habit of creating my own witches. My lovelies!
So when I saw the title Mayfair Witches and Anne Rice I was intrigued. I have to say I did see the title at some point when I was looking for the Interview with a Vampire book, but that is where my knowledge ended.
I saw a bit of the trailer and it looked good. I started it and then was hooked. I loved it, I watched it in a few days, 8 episodes.
Only now, when looking it up for this post, I found out that actually there is a second season, and a third will start to be aired in January 2026. Sadly Netflix only has the first season, and on Prime you need to buy the second season. And that annoys me a bit as I am already paying for Prime, so it would be paying twice. Grrr!
Anywho! That is a problem for another day!
I watched the first series and I loved it so! A bit of fantasy, of thriller, horror and even a bit of romance, all packed in an amazing visual setting of New Orleans.
After watching it I of course started reading the book. ASAP!
So far very different than the series, they do seem different works of art, but that is not necessarily bad, and it does not take at all from my enjoyment of reading the book. How I have grown!
Anne Rice is an extremely talented story teller and I love the world she describes. I am quite curious to see if she will be able to keep my attention for all of the 1216 pages of The Witching Hour, the first book in the trilogy.
Looking up information online it seems there are quite a lot of people passionate about these books and the world Anne Rice has created. I so hope I will be one of them!
I love loving things!
And, as usual, if I quite like something I really get into it, reading a lot of and about it.
I also want to read some of the Vampire books, and by looking online it seems a lot of people like the second book in the Vampire Chronicles better than the interview one. The second is The Vampire Lestat, and I think I actually have it, I just need to find it.
I’ll stick to the witches for now, God knows there is plenty of them to keep me busy!
Did you read any of these books? Do you like them? Not? But why?