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Summary: have yet to read...but..
Review: I would like to begin with the fact that her books have NOT gone down hill since Queen of the Damned. I started reading Anne Rice when I was 11 or 12 years old. I am now 16. I think that the chronicles have improved very much since the first three books. Even though I loved the first three dearly, I would not however rate them as the best that she has written. I have read Interview atleast three or four times, and I have read a couple of the other books a few times as well. But I have read every Vampire book she has written except this last one. I know that this book cannot be THAT bad. Sure, the first hundred, or even two hundred pages in a book are gonna be bad, but almost all of the books are this way. She is still introducing the characters!!! It always gets boring in the begining but then once you get to the best parts you need all that was read in the begining. I cannot believe that you people are critizing her work like this. I know that any book written by her could not be this bad! Back to my original subject though, you say that the first three were the best? Then why is it that everytime I try to reread one of those (besides Interview, I only love that one so because of Louis) I can't do it. My mind keeps drifting off to either Body Theif or Armand, or yet my favorite Blood & Gold. In my opinion you must have not "got" all of the books to be critizing them in this way. Go back and reread them and perhaps you'll be able to understand what you obviously missed.
Anne Rice's stories have grown greater and greater with time.
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Summary: I WANT TO BURN THIS THING!!!
Review: I Bought the book, only so anne rice could sign it, and that's the only reason i won't throw it in the trash. i'm going to have to reread books 1,2,3,4, and 6, just so i can remember why i loved the vampires to begin with. honestly, i couldn't get past page 100. the dialogue didn't flow, and made no sense, so unlike anne. when anne's on, she's the best in description and dialogue, but this book just proves that no writer is great all the time.i don't particularly enjoy reading about ghosts or her family of witches, but if it was a good story, i would hardly have noticed the obvious flaws. and it's practically dripping with catholism, which i don't mind in a good book, but this book wasn't. i know anne's been through a rough time, with her husband dying in the next room, so i'll just pretend i never read this horrible slap in the face to the vampire chronicles. i think she's a great writer, now she just needs to write great books again. poor, poor lestat, and where's my louis?
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Summary: Dissapointing Lestat and Anne Rice
Review: I used to wait eagerly for a book of Anne Rice and her Vampires Chronicles saga, sadly I will not be doing it anymore. Let's hope, for our sake that Anne Rice recovers her wit and writes more interesting books.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I just want to say how much I was looking forward to this book (especially after hearing that it would be the final installment of the Vampire Chronicles). I own and have enjoyed all previous books in the series.
That being said I was exptemely disappointed with Blood Canticle. Lestat began his "change" a few books back but I think it was taken to far. He's become boring, for lack of a better word.
I like the combination of the Mayfair witches and the Vampire Chronicles. I was also looking forward to seeing what happened to the Taltos, but it just seemed all wrong for an Anne Rice book. It's like she rushed through it. There wasn't her usual elegant descriptivness about the things going on. I think there was too much going on for a book just over 300 pages long. I also didn't like how the Taltos story line ended (as far as Ash and Morigan were concerned). Aside from that, where were the other characters from the series? If this is indeed the final book it would have been nice to include something about some of the other characters (I don't think Loius wasn't even mentioned). Overall very disappointing...I hope Ms. Rice will take some time and come back in a few years with another of Vampire Chronicles if only to wrap things up more fittingly.
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Summary: I miss Lestat... I miss OUR Lestat....
Review: Of course I will always love Interview with The Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the damned. But many Anne Rice fans agree they go down hill from there. There are certain circles that refer to my previously mentioned first three vampire chronicles as the ONLY vampire Chronicles. All the rest come off like fan fictions from some other person.
Nothing done now can change what had been. The Interview with the vampire is still the interview with the vampire. The Vampire Lestat is still The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the damned is still The Queen of the damned. I just pretend it's 1989 and the others were not published yet. They did not happen. Lestat, in my mind, is still a rebel, still a brat, still mischievous, still questions things, still fearless, still angst driven, still a fighter, and still perseverent. He's still riding around on his Harley, hunting down his killers and falling in love with the world. He's still an optimist (He has a pessimistic view of humanity in Blood Canticle.) He still views society today as an age of innocence and he's still my Lestat. All the rest... to me.. They're just fan fictions. I wish Anne Rice had done a book that she once hinted about years ago. The idea of the vampires being found out by some mortals and possibly captured and studies and then the escape... Lestat talks about this idea in The Vampire Lestat. That could have been a great novel, especially with our proud and defiant Lestat. This conformist, prude, depthless, two-dimensional Lestat would fold under that pressure but the Lestat I know would not. The first three vampire chronicles- that's my Lestat. That will always be my Lestat and no one can take that away from me. I miss Lestat. Lestat in Blood Canticle is whining. And he's become a conformist. He's now a hard-core Catholic who questions nothing, a cold hypocrite, a misogynist, a prude, and pessimist. This is not our Lestat! Our Lestat was a brat. Our Lestat questioned things. Our Lestat was always a rebel. Changing his personality this abruptly is like saying he now has blue hair and orange eyes. The angst is gone. The fearless soul that could never be oppressed is gone. He seems almost defeated by life, and defeat is against Lestat's nature. This whole book is against his nature! Certain aspects of one's personality don't change THAT drastically over time. And he's supposed to be roughly two-hundred and forty-six-years-old. And for most of that he was the Lestat I loved. This so called maturing is tragic and if this is what you call maturing I'd rather be a child. I never viewed maturing as becoming closed minded, sexist, spiritually defeated, conformed or becoming pessmistic. What a dreary view of life that would be!
I did not love the fangs or the blonde hair. I loved his personality. I related to Lestat, not the vampire! She's forgotten who Lestat was. Lestat used to see this world as an age of secular innocence where evil doers were scarce. And now he says there are many in the cities who deserve the vampire's kiss. He's become depthless (if he had much depth to begin with.) He's two dimensional. He's hunting down rogues and rule breaker vampires! He is a rogue and rule breaker! I want Lestat, I don't want Angel from Buffy The Vampire Slayer! I want Lestat the way he was meant to be. If Anne Rice needed a new character to express her obsession and new-found conformist mentality she should have used ANYONE but The Brat Prince to express it! I think this book disappointed every Anne Rice fan, everywhere, one way or another. What happened to our man of action? Where's The James Bond of the Vampires? My God! In these later novels the character himself can't even get his own name right. He keeps saying he was twenty, he was twenty-one as a mortal when he killed the wolves so how could he appear twenty now? I know I'm being harsh but Anne calls this maturing for Lestat. Being mature does not mean clinging desperately to something without question. Being mature does not mean becoming sexist with fashion, and seeing evil everywhere where he once was in love with the goodness in society. Lestat was a brat but he had faith in goodness. Now he doesn't seem to have that faith. His real and pure faith has been replaced by something superficial, something dark. And the restless spirit, the angst driven rebel, the one who could not be dominated... Our beloved antagonist, he's gone.... I don't know who this creature is who is narrating the story but it's not our Lestat. I'll always love the first three vampire chronicles, Interview with The Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and The queen of the damned. By my advice to anyone just starting, don't go any further than that. Tale of the body thief is good for comic relief if you have a dark sense of humour but that's about it.
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Summary: what a shame
Review: Rice's novels used to hold me captive. I could sit for hours reading her works as if they were made from fine wine (gee I sound like Lestat now). Since MEMNOCH THE DEVIL the Vampire Chronicles have gone down hill. Except for PANDORA and VICTORRIO, the other installments are the same story over and over again. The Armand and MArius based books are the same minus a handful of chapters and both repeating stories already told in THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. Now with this addition we have to go through BLACKWOOD FARM again. And Why do we have to go through the history of Tltos again? I was very disapointed. I loved the the WITCHING HOUR. I is my favorite! But now the characters of Rowan and Michael seem so fake so not what they used to be. Sadily this book was a disappointment.
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Summary: Fresh out of ideas...
Review: In the first pages of Blood Canticle, Anne Rice's beloved Vampire Lestat tells us not to fret, that this story will pick up where Blackwood Farm left off and that the story will have a beginning, a middle and an end (in other words, a plot). Well, Rice has just made a liar out of Lestat, because there is very little plot to be found in Blood Canticle. As a matter of fact, there is very little to appreciate in this self-loathing, overrought novel. The novel more or less does pick up the loose ends of Blackwood Farm. This time, it is the young, sickly Mona who is made into one of the undead, upon Quinn's demand. But Mona proves to be Lestat's female counterpart; mean, always complaining, unrespectful and with very little love left in her. The one thing she does wants most, however, is to find the daughter who was stolen from her so many years ago. Her daughter was one of the Taltos, a strange kind of creature that grows tall in just a few days and who nearly kills the mother that gives birth to them. She asks Lestat to help her find this people so that she can be with her daughter once again. And that's it. Lestat will moan about a ghost that will not leave him alone and Quinn, the great, carismatic protagonist of Blackwood Farm, is nearly forogtten and completely underused. And the melding of Rice's vampire and witches series doesn't go as smoothly this time around. Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles had taken a hard blow in the last few years, only to be given life again with Blackwood Farm. But now, it almost seems as though Blackwood Farm was a fluke, because Blood Canticle has very, very little to offer fans of the series. Even Letat has changed, and for the worst. Maybe it's time for Anne Rice to put the Chronicles to rest for a while to concentrate on something new and fresh.
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Summary: What in God's name...?
Review: I wish I could say that it didn't deserve any stars, but this review format won't allow me that luxury. A gold star for effort I suppose. I want to know what happened to the Vampire Chronicles. They were amazing at first, true works of art that transformed my idea of vampires forever. But then they started to decline. That is, they started to decline once the witches were introduced. But I'm here to write about Blood Canticle, aren't I? Well, I still want to know what happened. It used to be that Lestat could contemplate for pages on end, but now there is never a page that doesn't have some half-hearted dialoge! What happened to the rich history and beautiful description? And, above all, what happened to all the old characters? The old coven that made me love these books more than any other horror novel? I miss the Chronicles. I miss them alot.
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Summary: Vampires, witches, ghosts, and spirits, it got it all!!
Review: "Blood Canticle" is Anne Rice's latest Vampire Chronicle. In it Lestat sires the dying Mona Mayfair. The three, Mona, Lestat, and Quinn Blackwood, embark on several adventures, everything from excorsising spirits and ghosts, to searching for Mona's Taltos daughter. This is the fastest paced and most action packed Chronicle, with gun fights, massacres, and even an excecution. Most of the conflicts Mona starts, her fights with Lestat on her education into vampirism to Mona and Rowan Mayfair fighting over being the heir to the Mayfair money. This is a fully intergrated novel mixing up the Mayfair Witches and the Vampires. As you could guess Rowan and Lestat fall madly in love. Quinn Blackwood and Michael Curry mostly stay in the background, which is a shame, I would have liked to seen more of them. Mona is the most abrasive charactor, I was ready for Lestat to whip her back into line. She is a little willful brat reminecent of Claudia. If this truely is the last Chronicle, than i think it ended well.
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Summary: Kill Me Now!
Review: I've read every one of Anne Rice's novels, and have graciously accepted Lestat being "reborn," but I can not accept Lestat becoming such a bore. The Brat Prince is now just a brat. Blackwood Farm deserves a classier follow-up. I miss the great storytelling author who wrote "The Witching Hour." What happened?
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