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Summary: Entertaining
Review: I've been really enjoying Anne's Vampire Chronicles. I find the escapist stories about ancient, super-wealthy superheroes to be really fun. (...)since pretty much all writers indulge in their own personal whims and fansies within their work, I didn't let it distract me from the tales themselves and found the episodes easy to ignore. I have lots of friends who are completely turned off from the series because of it, but I think that's a mistake.
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Summary: once again, disappointed!
Review: Anne why do we need to know the history of Taltos AGAIN! When it has been mentioned in "Lasher"!!! I can't get her concept anymore. And what makes it even more sad is that this book is the last of the chronicles. Well, I think it's for the better because the Chronicles have been so sour these past years that it's hard to remain a fan. Once again Anne, GET AN EDITOR FOR YOUR BOOKS!!! PLEASE!!!!
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Summary: Sad, sad ending for Rice followers.
Review: I had real high hopes for this novel, as well as for Lestat himself. I didn't like Blackwood Farm, and I only assumed this was so because Lestat wasn't the star character. So when I heard Lestat was coming back as first person again, I was joyed, for he always brung life to Anne's novels from his own biography to the Tale of the Body Thief, my favorite out of them all besides The Vampire Armand.
And yet the first thing I hear about is he wanting to be good and a missionary of some sort! It totally threw me off how different Anne Rice made Lestat! It's like Anne neutered him! He's no longer cunning, bad, or vain. He's just a goody goody guy. That thoroughly disappoints me. And since this is supposed to be the last book in Anne's Vampire Chronicles series, I expected so much more and didn't get any of it. I wanted a big reunion of some sort with all her vampires coming together once more, so we could picture the other famous characters that have starred in the Chronicles such as Marius, Armand, and Louis again one last time. But you don't see any of them, Lestat barely even mentions them. That upset me the most.
But I'm speaking as a Vampire Chronicles fan. I've read all the novels in Anne Rice's vampire series, so I'm more attatched to the characters. Some of you may be reading one of her novels for the first time, so I'll split this into two categories:
Other Anne Rice fans of the Vampire Chronicles-
Great chance you'll be just as disappointed as I was. You don't see any of the other vampires but Lestat and his two 'ho- hum' new children, which are Quinn and Mona. The only good thing about Mona is that she sometimes in the book through anger somewhat changed Lestat back into the entity we once enjoyed, other than that, don't expect anything special from these two new vampires. They throughout the book follow Lestat around and call him 'Master' without any civil disobediance whatsoever, unlike Louis and Claudia so famously did decades back in Interview with the Vampire. You see no other vampires but plenty of Mayfairs, and Lestat turns into a drooling zombie over one of the Mayfair women that is twice his age throughout the entire novel. Mainly, say goodbye to the old Lestat you witnessed in the older novels. Don't expect any reunion like I did, because there's not even a hint of it, and the entire plot of the novel doesn't even dedicate to vampires, but to helping the Mayfairs, so don't expect to be knee-deep in seductive vampire conflicts, for there are none. Just the Mayfair witches of Anne's and their problems. My advice, read it about halfway, and if you feel you are enjoying it, then go on and read the rest. But if you feel disappointed, don't do what I did and read the rest, hoping something exciting will happen before you know it, for chances are, like me, you won't.
For you viewers who aren't knee-deep into the Chronicles, this may be a good read for you, despite all my comments up above. It's a book of folkloric creatures, vampires and witches, whom embark on a journey to find the secrets of an ancient bloodline called the Taltos linked to the Mayfair witches. A bit of controversy, a dash of action, and an unfolding of ancient secrets makes this novel a good read for many.
So for you readers who are just starting out in the Chronicles and this is one of your first readings, I would urge you to read this, because I'm sure I would enjoy it if I wasn't so involved with the other vampires she had other than Lestat. There were action scenes, especially the times when Mona angered Lestat, that made the book worth reading once.
But for you Chronicle fans such as I, I strongly urge you to keep your receipt on the novel. Just in case.
Rating: 
Summary: a decent book, with the tragic end to a series
Review: well i do think that this book could have been better, but i think this book is better than many people give it credit for. i think that it is a good thing that she is bringing this series to an end, the only reason i say this is because i dont think there is anywhere else to go with the series. i base this observation on the fact that she had to bring in characters from her mayfair series to add a little something new to her stories. however, in this book i would have found it a little more enlightening if i had read the books concerning the mayfair family. she tries to give the reader a quick rundown of events that pertain to this story but i think there is too much history and story to condense into one chapter. i think that as a character lestat has had his day in the sun, and that it is time to put him to rest. he is his same old character in this one and dont get me wrong i still like his persona but i feel there is nowhere else for him to go as a character, i mean the guy now wants to be a saint, to me this is reaching a little bit. as far as the other characters go in this book, i genuinely like mona mayfair. she kinda reminds me of lestat when he was just a fledgling. the girl has a fire inside of her and a hearty will. but anne rice has also given her a weakness, her temper will get the best of her and cause her to do foolish things, and then she always runs crying back to lestat. this aspect i did not like about her. i had wished for quinn to have more of an active role in this book, to me he just seemed to be just tagging along with mona and lestat. this is not her best collaboration of the witches and vampires, i give that praise to her book merrick. i do not like the fact that rowan and michael mayfair are really important charactes in the book because there is too much about them and their past that the reader is not aware of, and i think that plays a large part in this story. i made reference to a tragic ending, and this is in reference to the ending of the chronicles. like other readers i would have liked to have seen some of the tried and true vampire characters emerge in the novel and play a part or at least bring a little closure to the story. i wish that she would put out a book of short stories or something just to let everyone know what has happened to some of their favorite characters. all i can say is that i am both happy and sad that the vampire chronicles are over, and hopefully her son can write some great books like his mother used to.
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Summary: MY EYES!! THEY BURN!
Review: First off, Lestat wants to be a wholesome saint....that will tell you something about this book. Anne Rice turned Lestat from our loving Brat Prince into....i don't even know what! Not to mention that there is way to much stuff about Taltos and Lasher. The entire book is centered around the now, meek Quinn and the bratty little fledgling Mona. No other characters are even in the book from the Chronicles besides Lestat and Quinn. And for the last of the books, shouldn't they be included. Louis is reffered to once, and not even by Lestat, and Maharet sends Lestat a letter. Come on!! The book is littered with Christian refrences that just ruin it. The book is slow and again, way too much about Taltos and Mona. I WANTED LOUIS, ARMAND, AND MARIUS AT THE LEAST. It was very dissapointing, and the only reason i read the whole thing through was in hopes that another Vampire would be included. Sigh. I could have written a better finale! Sigh. Oh Brat Prince, what a way to go!
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Summary: not anne rice's best
Review: This book is better than most of the books that I've read, but it's one of the worst of Anne Rice's books. Characters are supposed to mature over time, but come on, Lestat wanting to become a saint? That is just too much. What happened to the Lestat in Interveiw, the guy that you love to hate? What happened to the brat prince? This would be a good read for those who aren't familar with Anne Rice and her books, but for those of us who are, this book is depressing. I gave this book three stars because Lestat is narrating the book again, and there are parts in the the book that send chills down you back, but they are few and far between.
Rating:
Summary: Not the best
Review: It wasn't "horrible" but it was certainly not her best. The style doesn't seem at all similar to her usual stuff. I found it very disjointed and had a hard time following the story line. I think the reviews would be worse had it not been a chronicle book. I would probably read it, even with the fact I know it isn't a great book, to keep the story together. Lestat did not seem like Lestat. I read Blackwood farm a few days earlier and it was much better than Blood canticle.
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Summary: Nothing to See Here
Review: This book was so not worth the time it took me to skim it. I doubt Anne Rice wrote this. If she did, her mind has broken. Um, I missed several books in the series, trying to aviod the new ones, and I was wondering where in Hell, is Louis? And why does Quinn look just like him? Also, I liked the first ones of the Mayfair Witches series, but "Taltos" come on. A Witch family, I can believe, a seprate race of beings....? And people say Stephen King is twisted? Anne Rice, it's time to get a new job, or start doing a good job. Move along Folks.
Nothing to see here.
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Summary: This CANNOT be the Anne Rice of old
Review: This book has reached new lows for Anne Rice, if it even was Anne Rice who wrote it. Previous reviwers mentioned the idea that another author may have taken over for Anne, which I find quite possible. The writing style is so different from earlier works that it leaves me room to doubt. I understand that authors mature and go through moods, but this book was ENTIRELY different. (I mean puh-leez, dude! - would Lestat really say something like that?) Memnoch the Devil was out there, Blackwood Farms seemed a little better, but Blood Canticle is just plain awful. If you were enough of a sucker to buy this one, I feel sorry for you. If you had enough sense to check it out from the library; don't you feel glad that you didn't spend your hard earned money on this junk?
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Summary: What the... Where is my Brat Prince? I give it NO STAR!
Review: Well what can I say, I truly don't even know where to start. Where Anne is the Brat Prince of old, where is our Lestat, what have you done to Lestat? A saint Anne our Brat Prince wishes to be a saint he wishes to possess a soul... what a joke. Quine Blackwood, Mona , Rowan, & Michael Mayfair, a few ghosts and some shattered Taltos, this is who you end the sage with... where Anne is Louie, Pandora, Armand, David, and the rest. Where have they all gone, have they been forgotten by you? Well not by me. "Blood Canticle" was a joke along with "Blackwood Farm". No story, no plot, no action, no feeling, no heart, no soul, it was empty I am left feeling heart broken. Sad is my heart. Where is my Lestat of old, where is our Vampire family? Come out, come out, where ever you are?
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