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Summary: Great new character for the chronicles
Review: Yes, I know we missed Lestat and the old crew. But I think we may have to say goodbye to them and the fact that anne isn't going to write about them anymore. I loved Pandora and this is another great new vampire. I loved this story and the suprise ending that makes Vittorio different than any other vampire in the world. I would like to know what happened to him and Ursula when the Queen was killed and every vampire felt it. I wonder what they thought of it. I also like how Vittorio and Ursula don't go searching for their vampire origins like every other vampire in the chronicles. They are content to stay in there little corner of the world with each other forever.
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Summary: An Anticlimatic New Start
Review: While I do enjoy almost all of Rice's work, Vittorio left me somewhat hungry. It's always great to read about new characters, but this book was a complete departure from the magical world Rice has weaved that started with the Chronicles. I might have enjoyed it more had there been even a rudimentary tie to another Vampire character but when you're reading an established series, to introduce a completely alien character is somewhat traumatic. Why should we care about Vittorio? That was never explained. The book was, as usual, well written, but I would have much preferred a novella of a more established character, like Rice did with Pandora. She introduced a host of promising characters in Queen of the Damned, and I wish she had continued along that vein. I, for one, am still waiting for the explanation of where Mekare was during her separation from Maharet. Was she really sleeping the whole time? How depressing!
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Summary: Ok
Review: I love all of the vampire chronicles. This is a decent book in its own right but not what I expected from Anne. If you like her previous novels you should pick this one up. But unless you are a true fan wait till it is out on papper back.
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Summary: A love story between immortal and mortal souls.
Review: Anne Rice's narrative of the relationships of these immortals and their mortal companions is like a love story not between man and women, rather between two passionate souls.
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Summary: a little bit disappointing
Review: Before I had started this book, I had read the vampire chronicles. These were excellent and well written. This book is everything but exciting. To much bla bla about art, flat characters and hardly a storyline that kept me interested. Sorry A.Rice...
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Summary: Better than I expected after Armand
Review: This book was refreshingly different after so many novels focusing on the one New Orleans coven of vampires. Vittorio tells his story well, despite Anne Rice's tendency to ramble.After the initial opening, however, the book goes downhill. Vittorio's love affair with Ursula is thoroughly unbelievable. He hardly knows the girl, but runs off like some melodrama hero to save the day. Ursula's character is nothing more than a shadow of Anne Rice's rich ability to present a character. Ursula is depressingly pale when put in comparison with Louis or Lestat.
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Summary: Un grande viaggio...
Review: This is the Annie we do love! Keep up the good work. We are waiting for the complete story of Marius and the sequel (book four) of the Mayfair witches... Ciao G.Luca - Roma.
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Summary: A Great Short Story
Review: Well what can I say? For the first time Anne Rice has dissapointed me. For one I would like to point out that this IS a short story, not a novel. The most distressing thing is she left out the vampire part. As usual she was great with the story background, however I was dissapointed with the characters. I'm sorry but putting 100 pages of print into a wide margined double spaced, huge type, does not make it a novel. All I can figure is she arrived at her deadline with what we've read and I can't help but think she never quite finished the story. C'mon Anne I want to read about Vittorio The VAMPIRE. It was good and the message was positive (though thinly veiled) But I would have liked to have read the whole story. I'm sorry but I feel cheated.
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Summary: I happen to like the "same old vampires".
Review: I guess this book was okay, but it appealed to me far less that the other vampire boks did. The book didn't tell his whole life, just the important parts, which didn't sound as important as it was supposed to. It was an easy read, but I read it without really caring about the plot very much. I hope Anne Rice puts out anohter book soon. I would really want to read it. Maybe even put Lestat in it.......
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Summary: Same formula... Why blame her?
Review: Although this is the best and most original of her latest couple of books (I could not finish Violin - it was so boring), it is still based on the same formula: very rich, extremely good looking, and incredibly charismatic charater becomes a vampire and confuses blood with sex, God, angels, the devil, and so on. I'm still waiting for Anne Rice to write "Moshe", the middle-class, balding Jewish vampire who lived in the suburbs, drove a Saturn, and worked in the insurance industry.
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