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Summary: Entertaining story-telling!
Review: This is the second Anne Rice Vampire book I have read (I started reading Memnoch The Devil but was deeply disappointed and so didn't finish it!) and it was very entertaining; she creates a vivid character in Pandora and embues her latest creation with a witty, interesting, forceful personality. The Roman settings add another interesting layer to this tale so that this book works both as a tale of the supernatural and also as a historical novel. It has restored my faith in her writing and I shall now try to read all of the books in her Vampire series...
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Summary: Another favorite from Anne Rice
Review: After "Memnoch the Devil" I wasn't sure if Anne Rice would continue with her ever so popular vampire chronicles. When seeing "Pandora:New tales of the Vampires" in a local bookstore, I immediately snatched it up. I was not disappointed in all with this book. Pandora is one of my favorite vampire characters and little was known about her in "Queen of the Damned".In the first book of the new tales of the vampires, the reader gets to know the enigmatic and ancient vampire. Pandora is strong willed vampire whom Marius, her off and on again companion, underestimates. Pandora does what it takes to survive, including protecting herself from her murderous older brother. I really did enjoy this book. After the heavy theological debate of "Memnoch the Devil", "Pandora" was a thoroughly light-hearted, entertaining read.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: This was a very good book. It was a very interesting. I especially enjoyed the Roman History. I think anyone interested in Ancient History should give this book a try. Also, Pandora was a very beautiful character. You just fall in love with her. She is very passionate and smart. Read IT!
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. It was wonderfully well written, and very sensual (as in great for the senses), and very descriptive, but not overly so. Pandora is a likable character. I highly reccomend this book.
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Summary: A New Beginning
Review: I remember the feeling I had seeing an advertisement for this book prior to the release date. It was pure excitement. I had just finished reading 'Violin' and 'Servant of the Bones', and was hungry for more Anne Rice. Pandora came along, and although I was a bit disappointed at first to see that it was a 'smaller' novel, in reading it I found much more content that I had anticipated. Pandora's tale, as told in journal form to David Talbot, the self-appointed 'chronicler' of the vampires, is far more romantic than Anne Rice's prior vampire works. Pandora's childhood infatuation with Marius, which grows into genuine love as Pandora becomes a young woman, is every bit as heartfelt as Armand's infatution with Marius in the following vampire chronicle, The Vampire Armand. The historical realization of this novel, set in ancient Rome and Antioch, is a departure of sorts from the other vampire tales. While the novels based upon the tale of Lestat tend toward a more religious exploration, this 'new tale' reveals more of Marius, and entices Anne Rice fans to want more of him. Pandora receives the 'dark gift' from Marius, after an attack from another vampire, who seeks to kill Pandora as revenge on Marius, for keeping the King and Queen of the vampires hidden away from him. Through 'Pandora' it is clear that Marius is a force to be reckoned with, and hopefully the stage is set for a future novel of his own. Although this novel is Pandora's tale, so much of it is wrapped up in the tale of Marius that it is easy to lose the focus. However, Pandora is a strong heroine for Anne Rice, developed from an 'in passing' character from Queen of the Damned, and a very entertaining read.
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Summary: Mesmerizing
Review: Wow! I was literally swept off my feet in this entrancing tale. This is Anne Rice at her best. This novel has it all, Romance, Intrigue, and Drama. But best of all, it has History. Oh, how I love history. From Ancient Egypt, to the Roman Empires and Greek Mythology. It is just beautiful. Anne Rice is a great Historical storyteller. She obviously does meticulous research, and she takes her knowledge and spins a mesmerizing tale of olden times, when people lived life, just for the sake of living. She writes of an era, when time was abundant. And it was spent with families and close friends, reading, writing and gaining insight into their life. Expanding their minds with philosophy and poetry and just about anything that was within their grasp. When time really did take a lifetime, and it was savored with all its beauty. Unlike now, with time passing by, faster than we can blink. This is not another novel of a Vampire in Rices collection,this is the story of Pandora. A woman whose mind rivaled that of a scholar, her thirst for knowledge and the meaning of what it is to exist, her main quest in this life. She is a woman who is betrayed, but that will not stop her. She embraces her induction into vampire hood, because this way, she can savor her love of life and feel it all the more. This is an exceptional book. My only regret is that it ends too soon. I would have gladly lived with Pandora for a thousand more pages.
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Summary: DIFFERENT
Review: YES, Interview With the Vampire was great, YES, Vampire Lestat was excellent, Queen of the Damned awesome etc... But so is this novel. I've read many of the reviews, and was a little stunned by them, the reason given so often why this book was a disappointment was it wasn't the SAME as the other books. I love Lestat just as much as any die hard Anne Rice fan, but the key to this novel is in the title NEW TALES OF THE VAMPIRES. This novel is really good if you let yourself grasp the idea that it is a story you haven't read before. The details are wonderful and the story is interesting. I found it refreshing after Memnoch the Devil, which by the way Lestat was in.
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Summary: To cease all doubts
Review: Reading amazon.com costumers'reviews, one tends to often be confused with so many different opinions, so this time I've taken the task of making one myself. I'm familiar with all the Vampire Chronicle books, and what you can expect from Pandora is an encounter with the early history of Marius and Pandora, in journeys that will take you throught Rome, in it's splendeour, and some other countries as well. The one thing I can advise to Rice fans, is that never start reading one of her new books expecting to read another The Vampire Lestat. All of Rice's books are different, specially now in this new phase. Pandora is a rich book, very rich in history and it's also very well structured, on context issues. I highly recommend it for those who love history ( specially the Roman Empire ) and worship Rice's dark avengers.
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Summary: wouldn't open this book again on a dare
Review: Gawd, how disappointing. Here you have a vampire who is thousands of years old, who, unlike Akasha, Mekare and Enkil, apparently kept her sanity and managed to adapt as times changed, and all you get of her 'unlife story' is a drippy, unconvincing love story and some ugliness with Roman soldier-types. I wanted to know if, like Maharet, she kept track of her human relatives. I wanted to know what she thought of the changes in human existence. I wanted to know how she met her friends and how she made her enemies. I was so disgusted with this book that I lent it to someone and told her to keep it! (I never do this!) The story of Pandora had (and HAS!) the potential to be as sweeping and compelling as Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's St. Germain, or even as interesting as Lestat's relatively short unlife, but Rice dropped the ball big time. I never got the sense that the writer liked or even _cared_ about Pandora. Never has it been more obvious that Anne Rice is a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body.
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Summary: Pandora : woman of mystery
Review: Pandora is an excellent book ; well written with a fluid, narrative prose and is an ideal read for both seasoned readers of Anne Rice novels and newcomers . She encapsulates the history of the period and combines that with her own unique style of writing . The romance and mystery of the first volume of vampire novels is once again present ; in a new adventure set in various places of historical intrigue and interest . Pandora is definately a book to buy whether you are a real Anne Rice fan or just simply looking for a good read .
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