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(Warning: this book contains graphic and violent action towards women. Violence, rape, incest, statutory rape and horror to do with childbirth and miscarriage. Be warned.)

This is the worst book I have ever read. No exaggerating, no humour. I am appalled. Where to start.
Every single character in this book is irredeemable. Even Michael the only character I liked in the first novel has been reduced into a horrible person, cheating on his wife due to having been seduced by and repeatedly having sex with a THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL. The child in question, Mona is no saint either, being incestuous as well.
Poor Rowan, who did the least wrong here. Having sex with a ghost is nothing compared to this books plot. In the previous book, the spirit Lasher killed her unborn baby and crawled inside her to be reborn in the fetus' body. You then find out hes a freaky humanoid baby thing called a Taltos. They drink milk from a breast into adulthood, so it was disturbing having the full grown Lasher facial hair and all breastfeed on an non consenting Rowan and have it described as sexual.
Oh, and the main plot of the story is Lasher having sex with every female member of Rowans family in an attempt to create a female of his species. But he ends up killing every woman brutally via vaginal hemorrhage or miscarriage. He kills at least five woman violently this way. AND ANNE RICE HAS THE AUDACTIY TO TRY TO MAKE HIM SYMPATHETIC
Thats not all this monster does. He kidnaps and brutally tortues Rowan, not letting her eat for days and tying her up to the bed. He repeatedly rapes her trying to impregnate her and she suffers from many miscarriages because of it, it almost kills her. When this happens Lasher beats her horribly. He finally impregnates her (while unconscious) and forces her to have his kid, a female of his species. Her birth almost kills Rowan.
Lasher tells his story about being alive in Medieval times or some shit and how he was religious and viewed as a saint to Michael, Rowans husband. And luckily he isn't immediately charmed by the "special little sympathetic and fascinating and religious creature" that Anne is trying to portray him as. Even Michaels colleuges refuse let him murder the demon at first cause they think hes too historically or scientifically important. SCREW YOU GUYS.
Michael killing Lasher with a hammer was the greatest part of this book and gave me immense joy at seeing the little bastard smashed to bits with a hammer to the fontanel (DID I MENTION TALTOS ARE ESSENTIALLY SEVEN FOOT TALL BABIES. HAHAH GROSS)
Never read this book. Even out of morbid curiousity like I did. Burn every copy and scream in terror if its ever brought up to you.
One I finish the third in the series "Taltos" I am donating these books to curse another poor innocent victim.
I gave it one star because thats the minimum rating you can give. Real rating is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO/5