“Grain IS A FORMIDABLE Skill…[Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate history and high soap opera.”

–The Washington Post Book World

“CAPTIVATING…TALTOS IS AN EXCELLENT OFFERING…THE VERY BEST SHE’S Carried out….There’s a participant of Anne Rice’s macabre category of monsters, and he’s probably the loneliest, most melancholy creature on earth….Rice keeps the mystic fires burning up strong.”

–The Milwaukee Journal

“SPELLBINDING…MYTHICAL…Anne Grain is a 100 % pure storyteller.”

– about Taltos -Cosmopolitan

“RICE IS AN ELEGANT WRITER…What is most effective throughout the reserve may be the magical collusion of the real as well as the mythical, the intermingling of the Taltos and witches with normal mortals in the present-day world.”

–New York Newsday

“BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.”

–Kirkus Evaluations (starred)

“WHAT CAN I CONFESS? I’M ASHLAR. I’M A TALTOS.

It’s hundreds of years since I’ve seen one single other person in my own types. Oh, there were others. I’ve heard about them, chased after them, and occasionally almost found them. Tag, I say nearly. But not in hundreds of years have I handled my own flesh and bloodstream, as human beings are so fond of saying. Never in all this time around….[pg. 64]

When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled into the haunting globe of the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by ghosts, spirits, and their own dizzying capabilities. For Ashlar does know this effective clan is usually intimately linked to the heritage from the Taltos.

Within a swirling universe filled up with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous journey back through the centuries to a civilization half-human, of wholly mysterious origin, at odds with mortality and immortality, justice and guilt. It is an enchanted, hypnotic globe that could just come from the imagination of Anne Rice .