Hello All,

This month, I shall be reviewing the book Lasher written by Anne Rice, I'm pretty sure that I had already reviewed The Witching Hour, which is the prequel to this particular book.

Published by: Ballantine Books
Copyright: 1993

Picking up where the last book left off, Rowan having left and is nowhere to be found. Micheal Curry is now on his own, and Rowan's cousin Mona, is trying to have her way with him.

Now, I thought this book was written well but for one thing, who the bloody hell wants to imagine a middle aged man having sex with a little girl? Anne Rice of course has a penchant for putting er...certain mind problems into the lives of little girls, and of course, there's the whole father figure thing that totally disgusts.

Now, Mona, Rowans cousin, succeeds in getting her uncle Micheal to sleep with her, and then feels really bad and tries to get Rowan to come out of a strange coma that she goes into when she returns from wherever it was she was at all this time, guess she succeeds because they're back.

Through all this, they are going back in time to visit the life of Julien, whom you all remember from the first book, well the second book goes waay into his life, and is actually quite entertaining in that respect.

All in all, I give this book a 3 out of 5 rating because of its child molestation scenes, which I found too deeply disturbing.

If you like this book, then you should read the sequel, which is Taltos, also by Anne Rice.

Eternal,
Barbie

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