Taltos Audiobook (Free)

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

–The Washington Post Book World

“CAPTIVATING…TALTOS IS AN EXCELLENT OFFERING…THE BEST SHE’S Performed….There is a new member of Anne Rice’s macabre category of monsters, and he’s most likely the loneliest, most melancholy creature on the planet….Rice helps to keep 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 and the mythical, the intermingling of the Taltos and witches with ordinary mortals in the present-day world.”

–New York Newsday

“BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN.”

–Kirkus Reviews (starred)

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

It’s decades since I’ve seen one single other member of my own varieties. Oh, there have been others. I’ve heard of them, chased after them, and in some instances almost found them. Mark, I say almost. But not in centuries have I handled my own flesh and blood, as human beings are so keen on saying. Never in all this time….[pg. 64]

When Ashlar learns that another Taltos has been seen, he is suddenly propelled in to the haunting world from the Mayfair family, the New Orleans dynasty of witches forever besieged by spirits, spirits, and their own dizzying forces. For Ashlar knows this powerful clan is definitely intimately linked to the heritage of the Taltos.

In a swirling universe filled up with death and life, corruption and innocence, this mesmerizing novel takes us on a wondrous trip 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 world that could just result from the imagination of Anne Grain .