"ANNE RICE WILL LIVE ON THROUGH THE AGES OF LITERATURE".
--San Francisco Chronicle
"TALTOS IS THE THIRD BOOK IN A SERIES KNOWN AS THE LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR
WITCHES . . . Their haunted heritage has brought the family great
wealth, which is exercised from a New Orleans manse with Southern
gentility; but of course such power cannot escape notice . . . or
challenge. . . Rice is a formidable talent. . .
[Taltos] is a curious amalgam of gothic, glamour fiction, alternate
history, and high soap opera".
--The Washington Post Book World
"AN INTRICATE, STUNNING IMAGINATION".
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"SPELLBINDING . . . MYTHICAL . . . Anne Rice is a pure storyteller".
--Cosmopolitan
"BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN".
--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Her power of invention seems boundless. . . . She has made a
masterpiece of the morbid, worthy of Poe's daughter. . . . It is hard to
praise sufficiently the originality of Miss Rice".
--The Wall Street Journal