FKB staff answer: Mine is The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. I first read, Interview with a Vampire, by Rice a few years after that move came out (movie was out in 1994). I loved that movie and then the book. That book was how I first found Anne Rice. Next, I moved to her novel the Witching Hour (book 1 in a 3-part series that also has some crossover moments in the later vampire novels), and I became obsessed! Obsessed with Anne Rice, obsessed with that series and with New Orleans in general. I have now read and reread the book TWH a few times and I have the audio version of the whole series as well.
Whenever I have trouble sleeping and I do not feel like meditating I will play that book on my Audible app, and it is like an old friend is comforting me to sleep. I love the story and all the characters. Anne was a master at character development and scene setting. I visualized the whole story perfectly in my head. She was beautifully descriptive and yet left room for reader imagination at times. I was also captured by the depictions she made of New Orleans and in 2005 I made my way to see the inspiration for the “Mayfair Mansion” and visit the city for the first time She was and is a beautiful city that I will always love thanks to Anne.