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Summary: IGNORE THE BOGUS REVIEWS OF THIS BOOK !!
Review: ...I love this amazing writer and all of the books she has written!!!
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Summary: i needed more of the old lestat
Review: i have been reading the anne rice books for a couple of months now. i read interview last year, and this year started with the vampire lestat(which is by far the best) and worked my way down to almost all of them until i got to blackwood farm, which i enjoyed immensely. i was awaiting for this book, and even preordered it, but it was nto the conclusion i was anticipating. lestat seems to have lost his fire, there are a few instances where the old lestat comes back, but the lestat i was first introduced to, the one i feel in love with, is not here.
i think entagling the vampire world with the mayfair world was a mistake. making mona a vampire, which i also thought was a wonderful character also in the witch chronicles, she also lost her fire in this book. when we first see her again, she is a waif of what she used to be, and i was glad to see she was not going to die after lestat made her a vampire, but his falling in love with rowan made me sick. rowan seems to fall in love with others too quickly, when micheal is this great guy. the finding of the taltos was another ridiculous story. there just seemed too much done in too little time and our beloved characters have all lost their fire.
i did not think it was the proper end for lestat, or the mayfairs. the whole wanting to be a saint just did not suit the brat prince, and i skipped all references to it. while i love the rice novels, i know she was going thru a tough time with her husbands death, so i will forgive her. all her other books have more than made up for this folly.
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Summary: What happen?
Review: Anne Rice you should have done what Michael Jordan should have done, retire as the greatest; instead you have ended the wonderful saga of the Vampire Chronicles in shame and embarrassement. I love you Anne, but I'm so dissapointed.
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Summary: The Fans Have Failed
Review: While this book may have been short and lacking the usual poetry we have come to expect from Anne Rice it is, I feel our own fault. She states in the book that while MtD may have sold well, fans did not get it. Notice how up until Lestat's rant in the begining of BC she eluded to another book of his journeys with angels? She has realized that many fans don't seem to want to read what she wants to write. So she has written a book for the masses. She was trying to satisfy all the readers who seem to want a continuation of the story rather than her usual poetry. It is our own fault for not letting her know how awesome MtD really was. Shame on us for not supporting her when she wrote from her heart. Stan's death I am sure was a factor. But she has shown in the past the her greatest writing is done when she herself is at her lowest. It is her escape. We have no one to blame but our selves. Long live Lestat!!
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Summary: Take the money and hide.
Review: To sum it up, Anne if you had not been a published writer this book would have been trashed. I can't beleive any one would pay money for this.
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Summary: There is NO defense for this novel...
Review: "Blood Canticle" is a novel that Anne Rice was well over 3/4 of the way writing when her husband was diagnosed with brain cancer. She took time off from writing and then went back to the novel in order to make her dead line. When reading the novel, the shift in her tone is evident. (Besides the fact that the novel was finished on October 5, Stan was diagnosed in August. No way the novel was done that quickly, no matter how sloppy and poorly written it is.)Still, that means she had written over half the book before he was sick. So you know what that means... no excuse. "Blood Canticle" is repellent. And it would be forgivable if Blood and Gold & Blackwood Farm had been even half-way decent novels, but they weren't. And so the all the excuses and half-hearted defenses with continue for Ms. Rice. It still does not make up for an once brilliant author who had decided to churn out novels more processed than Velvetta. The language is terrible, the "plot" is a joke, and all the while you can't hope but think, she knows it as well. But she doesn't. And I don't think this will be the last chronicle. Let's face it... writing a vampire chronicle pays, and it's obivious that is what Anne Rice is concerned with. Art and intergrity have been stomped on and there isn't even a glimmer of the once great author she was. That's the greatest tragity. Yo, I think it's time for us all to boogie on over to a better writer, baby.
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Summary: Blood Canticle
Review: Anne has tried her best with this last book she is a wonderful person who gives to her fans all that she can.When she lost Stan she returned to her faith. She has already made it clear this will be her last book about Lestat. She wants light in her life and needs to leave the darkness behind for her own reasons.I loved the vampire chronicles and would love to have her write more.I agree that B.C wasn't her best, But I'm glad I bought it.
I wish her all the luck with whatever she does and she will always have a fan in me.
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Summary: Calm down!!!!!!
Review: I agree with another reader that "Blood Canticle" is definitely not Anne's best endeavor. But, it is understandable why it isn't, being that her husband of forty years just passed away. People aren't even considering this. Think about it. Anne had been with Stan for two-thirds of her life. She basically grew up with this man! And she was obviously in a state of grief (for even as she wrote this, his health was failing rapidly). But here are her fans, her "loyal" fans, acting out like bunch starving vultures! I could care less whether anyone agrees with this review, or not. That is the way it is. I lost my wife five years ago, and I am practically still grieving. Stan just died eleven months ago! I mean, what is she supposed to do? HOCUS POCUS, I'M MAGICALLY OVER HIS SICKNESS, OVER HIS DEATH. TIME TO WRITE GROUNDBREAKING NOVEL! No. It doesn't work that way, folks. She is human. I would love to see even half of those whom gave negative, or downright harsh reviews, sit down and write some meaningful fiction (which in a state of grief, can be quite meaningless, I can imagine) after your spouse has just died weeks or months before. Please, you guys, be more understanding. Even more pathetic is a reviewer from another website, pretty much saying "Ah, first Anne's daughter died, now it's her husband that has died. So we're sure to get a good book out of her!" That's disgusting. Truly disgusting. What's wrong with everybody? This whole "who cares about Anne's feelings, just give me a good novel" thing is not so hot. Okay, so it's not a good ending to the Chronicles. I can understand your frustration. Just.....try not to be so heartless with your words.
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Summary: Tripe... Awful...
Review: After reading positive reviews (including 2 star) of this "book", I must say that taste has gone way down hill. "Blood Canitcle" is the worst book I have ever read. What makes it even worse is that Anne used to be such a great writer. This is just... I'm not sure how to describe it. It's almost as though she's just given up. After Blood and Gold, Blackwood Farm and now Blood Canticle, I know I have given up as well. Give me Queen of the Damned or even Merrick... I take anything over this door stop. The positive reviews still baffle me. I can only assume that these people would gush over anything that Ms. Rice cares to dole out. It's time to stop praising this "writer", and it's time to stop donating to "Cash Cow: The Vampire Chronicles".
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Summary: Couldn't put it down.
Review: "The Vampire Lestat" was the masterpiece. If you want to compare this book with other Rice books, it's probably not the best. That said, I've tried to read other authors while I was eagerly awaiting the next Rice book, and I've yet to find one that satisfies. Rice includes just enough background info to support new readers as well as those who may have forgotten details from the previous novels. Her descriptions are rich, which is part of the escape that she provides. Lestat was modeled after Rice's husband, and with his recent passing Rice has said that this will be the last novel written in Lestat's voice. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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