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Summary: Seems the soap opera of the vampires continues.....
Review: Finally, we get a good book with a soap opera ending. Wait until the next episode..... The entrance into the "Dark World" was just sick, but by that point I really cared about the characters in the book. Good read, not great.
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Summary: All, I have to say is Anne, You Go Girl.
Review: Furthermore, WHATEVER, PEOPLE. Ya'll leave my girl Anne alone, she must be feeling better, because she definitely put her foot in the pot with this one.With that said; I absolutley loved this book. Although this was not my favorite Anne Rice Novel; (My favorite by far is "Tale of the Body Thief" no, maybe it's "Memnoch the Devil". Anywayz I was so happy to read one of her books that did not go back over the whole sorrid story of Lestat, Claudia, Louis, Armand, etc. again. I couldn't put the book down and when I finished, I was quite sad indeed. I'm like what am I going to read now. Dang. Quinn, is so cool; he just shoulda been a brotha :-). I loved the fact that she finally put some black folx in her books, since New Orleans is full of us. I hope Quinn, Mona, Jasmine, and Jerome, will be back (maybe not Mona, cause boy she'll be an ugly sight.) All I have to say is if you liked The Vampire Lestat, you should like the story of Quinn Blackwood. Sorry Louis, but you've been bumped to #3 on my list of favorite vampires.
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Summary: Blackwood Farm
Review: This is by far her best book yet!! I highly recommend reading this one ...if you haven't read her lately!! I can't wait for her next book to come out!
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Summary: Thoroughly Enjoyable!!
Review: First of all, most of the people trashing Anne's writing ability wouldn't be able to write a full length novel with her depth and wonderful prose, let alone dozens of novels! I just finished Blackwood Farm a couple of hours ago and cannot wait for the sequel. I found it interesting and full of wonderful characters. Quinn is unlike any other character she's ever written, yes he is silly and immature at times but he's a teenager for cryin' out loud...
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Summary: Did I read the same book as the others?
Review: I thought Anne Rice couldn't get more sophomoric than she did with "Merrick" but I was wrong. "Blackwood Farm" is stiff, stilted, seeming more like the writing of a 12 year old adoring fan than Rice herself. The book bogs down in trivial minutiae while glimpses of tantalizing (not to say interesting) stories are ignored in the background. We learned too much about things nobody, not even the characters, cared about. "Blackwood Farm" really feels more like a book written to fill the wallet than to truly entertain Rice's readers.
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Summary: Not her best... but good
Review: No matter how good or bad Anne Rice's chronicles are, I will always continue the series, because the entire story as a whole is one helluva good read. My biggest complaint w/ Blackwood Manor is Ms. Rice's tiresome & never ending weaving of sexual fetishism... count on it to be SOMEWHERE in every one of her books (hell, just read the Beauty trilogy, et al.) I found Quinn's entrance into the "dark world" just plain ludicrous. I almost put the book down right then & there. Come off it already, Anne! If it weren't so far into the story (it's in the last 1/4 of the book), I'm sure I'd have dropped it. Also, don't be fooled by the reference to the Mayfairs - they're only a marginal part of the story (albeit far better than in Merrick). Their 'involvement' in the story is minimal & adds only to the family aspect of the story about Quinn. I won't say it's a 'bad' story... but I've had no problem putting this book down. I miss the style of the earlier books - when I couldn't put the book down for even a minute. But I'm sure this too will pass -- & I will anxiously await the next book by Ms. Rice.
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Summary: engrossing
Review: I've always had a problem with Anne Rice's writing being overly flamboyant. She was so busy giving detailed descriptions with the setting that she easily lost sight of the story. This novel proved what a wonderful writer she is. She included the perfect mix throughout. Her writing was very discriptive at the same time carrying along the story. Her characters were true to life and she pulled her very best from her past work. In this novel, Mrs. Rice combines the Vampire Cronicles, the Mayfair Witches, and the Talamasca. Our young hero is tall, dark and (of course) handsome. He is also true of heart and pure. All his life he has been able to see spirits and ghost, yet has had a loving and supportive family (with the exception being his mother) to turn to and help him through his struggles. He also finds the love of his life (enter Mayfair Witches)whom he looks forward to marrying. Unfortunately, he was taken against his will to be made into a blood drinker. He seeks the help of Lestat to tell his life story to, and to help in ridding him of a most fearsome spirit that has plagued him for all his life. Mrs. Rice also throws in a surprise ending (or two)for good measure. Over all, I found this to be a very satisfying read and hope that the next novel will pick up where this one left off.
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Summary: Still in love.
Review: Let me begin by saying that I have read almost everything Anne Rice has written, both the Vampire and Witch series completely. I'm in love. Still in love. Once again I have been brought into a world of the most stunning evil beauty that I try every day of my life to find. Anne Rice creates a vision of our real world that we would all be better for understanding. Tarquin is intoxicating, Lestat (if you understand him) pure love, and Aunt Queen, simply beloved. As always, I thirst for what's next.
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Summary: A great book
Review: I am a great fan of book that does involve immense plots, characters, and scenery such as the Lord of the Rings and Anne Rice's the Vampire Chronicles. I have a complete library of Anne Rice's books (all of them) and my favorite, I would have to say, would be Blackwood Farm. The main characters in the novel take me through a great time expanse because of the main character Quinn, and Quinn is just the vampire I like. Sure Lestat is handsome and powerful, but Quinn is very young and is like an orphan so that gives him mortal qualities. I would like to say to Anne Rice that over the years, and though all the books, this, in my opinion, is your best one yet. I can't wait until another one of your books comes out. Even if you're not a vampire fan, but you like great books I recommend Blackwood Farm.
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Summary: Great Novel!!!
Review: This is a great novel. Blackwood Farm, with its grand Southern mansion, harbours a family of ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a tyro bloodhunter whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit - a goblin succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the ubiquitous Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality... Blackwood Farm is the ninth volume of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series. After a number of her previous volumes have been given the Hollywood treatment (Interview with a Vampire and The Queen of the Damned) it almost seems that she has switched into 'writing for the movies' mode - every scene is so vivid that you can almost picture the boom mic accidentally appearing in shot. While her work is as strong and calculated as it has always been, reading Blackwood Farm you can't help but think that Rice is now a one-trick-pony. While there is much more to her work than stories of bloodsucking fiends, I am getting to the point where I want more from her work - I have grown up on her books and she has failed to grow with me. Blackwood Farm is exceptionally well written and it's great to see Rice on such good form. It's just that, for me, it's time she did something a little different to break away from the realm of the vampires.This is a great Novel, other novel's I like are Micheal Crichton's Prey an Paul Omeziri's Descent into Illusions.
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