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Summary: Sensuous, Bewitching, and down right Wicked!!!!
Review: ... After reading Merrick with the same passion and vigor that I have "torn into" Anne's other works...." I want some more " I absoulutely love the character of Merrick. I want to know more about her....how deeply tied to the beloved Mayfair family she is.....and I want her to become involved with the likes of Rowan and Mona in the future. I was in tears at the end when Lestat FINALLY woke up from his coma like state. The descriptions of the Voodoo rituals were, from what information on the subject I have, very authentic. The evil and malice shown by Claudia, a character I never liked, made me dislike her even more. And of course...the events surrounding Louis near the end were shocking as well..but of course Lestat saved his beloved! My one and ONLY complaint of this book is....Merrick shouldn't have been made a Vampire. I liked her as a Witch..didn't care for her much once she had the Dark Gift.
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Summary: Like an Old Friend Returning
Review: I'll admit, I had grown bored with Anne Rice. Her last few have certainly lacked the wild originality and imagination of her earlier novels. Violin and Servant of the Bones were awful, Memnoch the Devil, Lasher and Taltos, ridiculous, Armand, repetitive and boring. Merrick is a good book, probably because it's a smaller book. Less time to play around with the grand IDEAS. It has characters instead of caricatures, themes that speak for themselves. It's a novel, not a diatribe. Merrick Mayfair is an attractive character, David Talbott, an attractive hero. His fears and regrets are reasonable. The plot is solid. I had determined quite a while ago that I would stop buying Anne Rice in hardcover, and I haven't yet picked up Blood and Gold, but after this, I'm hopeful...
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Summary: It was okay, but...
Review: I found myself not liking Merrick very much (which is too bad, because the book IS named after her). I just thought Merrick was too conniving. I did not really the ending, it was too strange. I can't really say much about it without giving it away, but to me it did not seem realistic. I did not like how Louis was portrayed, either. He seemed too...lame, for lack of a better word. This book certainly doesn't rate with the earlier books in the series.
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Summary: If there was a the choice of no stars...
Review: For the first time, I'm ashamed to be reading an Anne Rice book.She filled me up with the fantastic tales of Interveiw, Lestat and The Queen, didn't read the Body Theif or Memnoch, she kept me looking and searching with Pandora, Viterrio and than low and behold Armand! Than this... I even bought it in hardcover, stared at it began to read it, put it on the shelf. Six months later I crawled away from the cess pit of card board cut outs. If Rice had wanted to write why didn't she just publish it on-line? IT would have saved me [money]...(I live in Australia)and I could have turned from it. At least her new one, Blood and Gold is decent.
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Summary: Great mixture of two ¿obscure¿ themes...
Review: Great mixture of two "obscure" themes: vampirism and the Spirit World. Rice does a good job doing her research, apparently she had good advise (or read some good books) on Candomble and Voodoo.
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Summary: jonas421
Review: I've read all the Vampire Chronicles and Merrick is a great addition. It brought back Louis, Lestat, and Claudia. Along with adding depth to David Talbot, and introducing the new and wonderful Merrick. I've not read any of the Mayfair witch stories and don't really intend to. Merrick stands on her own, and is a welcome addition to the New Orleans coven.
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Summary: A complete spell
Review: A magnificent tale of fantasy and mistery. The touch of black history is it's pages was completelly spellbinding. The sensual image of Merrick was in my mind through every page, every word. And the re-introduction of Louis as one of the main characters, not a secondary, was what really caught my attention. Finally, an answer to the mistery of why Jesse Reeves found the items that once belong to Claudia, finally a possible ending or maybe a new begining for Claudia. This novel, is the reason why Anne Rice can be categorize as one of the best contemporary writers for my generation.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: One of her best!!! I especially love the twist involving Louis!
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Summary: Lets rename it"I Love Louis."
Review: I got this book out of the library because I had heard it contained elements from both the mayfair witches and the vampire chronicals. I thought it must be good.
For the most part it was very good. I loved the atmosphere, and most of the characters. But, I had some major objections... For example, the charecter of merrick WAS a cardboard prop-up. She seemed to be a bit of a brat too, the way she intentionally seduced louis and dumped david. I also hate how she almost kills louis, and yet no-one hates her for it. And then the author has the nerve to tell us it was predestined. ...there are only so many times in a book you can say that she likes to drink rum.
Furthermore, if Lestat isn't going to be concious for most of the book, why bring him in at all? For most of the book he's in la-la land, and when he does snap out of it, he, for some reason beyond me, fails to kill merrick for what he did to louis.
But overall I like it. I think it needs a different name though, How bout, "I Love Louis"?
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Summary: very good book
Review: Anne's writting in this book is so detailed and great that I couldn't put it down! The storyline is so unique and I love how it ties the Mayfair Witches into the Vampire Chronicles. In fact, I was reading over 100 pages of it daily, so I finished it in a fair amount of time.
Told from the veiw of vampire David Talbot, the entire book seems to be nothing but a series of conversations, but I like the way it is set up to the way Anne set up the Interveiw with the Vampire conversation. Other characters include Merrick (of course) Armand, Lestat, and even Claudia has a breif role.
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