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Summary: Not so good...
Review: I'm a huge fan of Anne Rice and have read everything by her that I could get my hands on- but this.. It's been sitting by my bed for ages now and for some reason, no matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to get through it.. It's just not as interesting and the beginning is too reminiscent of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens... The furthest I've gone is maybe 50 pages, but I've had to drudge through all of them.. I think this book would only be good for the hard-core Anne Rice fans.
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Summary: My favorite Rice book
Review: If you have been recommended vampire or other mainstream Rice books and not liked them, don't loose hope, you may like this book. I was recommended the vampire chronicles, and got most of the way through one and half way through another before giving up. The things I liked about the vampire books were flowery prose and a generally eerie and intense atmosphere. The storylines were hard to follow, for me. The characters acted impulsively without much logic or reason. I lost track of storylines because I forgot who did what why. Then I picked this up. It has the same flowery prose and intense atmosphere as the vampire books, but the characters are much more easy to relate to. The reader understands the conflicting currents in each characters life, and why they make the desisions that they do, even the horrid ones. If you like an extremely large and intracate psycological knot, Feast of all Saints has a great storyline. The fact that there's not much action didn't bother me. It illustrates how sometimes the most pivitol and difficult decisions made in life can be made without excessive drama. That makes such decisions no less important. This is my favorite of anything by Rice I've read.
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Summary: It's great!
Review: After IWTV this is my favorite AR book! The characters are well developed and well written. It's amazing what Anne was able to come up with when there is so little info about these group of people. We learn more about what their lives could have been like through each of the characters and the issues and problems they had to deal with. I say pick up this book now!
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Summary: Passionate and deeply human story
Review: This has to be the most beautifully written book I have ever read. Anne Rice vibrantly brings to life the community and lives of the Gens de Couleurs in New Orleans, a part of American history I have never heard of prior to reading the novel. All characters are well portrayed; you really get to know them, their passions, their dreams, their flaws, their opinions, their personalities.. all main characters are given a voice and a window through which the reader can look into their soul. The descriptions of New Orleans and its culture throughout the novel are breathtaking and mesmerising as if the reader has been transported there physically. This book will make you laugh, cry, become angry, excited, nervous, and extremely happy as it takes you through the journey of the story. The Feast of All Saints has become my favourite book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a deep, moving story with plenty of substance. If you are expecting the supernatural just like in Anne Rice's other novels - forget it. This story is human to the core.
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Summary: Just plain awful!
Review: It's as if she didn't take the time to create characters we care about. Truly unorganized also, we're with Marcel then it jumps to his mother it's really hard to read and to top it off, it's over 600 pages!!!!! Maybe if I cared about the characters I can get into the book more but this is one of my least favorite books of hers. Not thought out at all.
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Summary: what a pity...
Review: This book has an author of obvious talent, interesting characters and fascinating little-known history, and yet it fails. I believe that reason for this is that it reads as if it was written far far too fast. It is a story about a vanished world, that of the Gens de Coleur Libre in Pre-bellum New Orleans. The main character is a talented, blond black boy, who develops a relationship with a man, a successful author who has returned from Europe to open a school in his native city. The boy is desperate to escape from the provincial town to Paris, which his plantation-gentleman father promised to him and his concubine mother. Is it arrogance or sloppiness that allowed Anne Rice to write this so quickly and carelessly? Was the editor scared to get her to edit it and re-write it, as she obviously did so brilliantly in her first two Vampire novels? We may never know. It is another example of what I regard as a squandered talent. I will probably not try to read anymore of her books. Of course, if you don't care how well a novel is written, and perhaps my standards are too high, this is a fairly good read.
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Summary: Fascinating historical novel
Review: This absorbing melodrama explores the complex hierarchal and insular community of white upper class landowners and their "free" mulatto mistresses and their progeny. Set within the larger context of 19th century New Orlean's slave society, Anne Rice recreates the unique power dynamics within these relationships which don't always have a predictable outcome. Fascinating because it is based on historical facts.
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Summary: Definitely worth reading
Review: I have just finished The Feast of All Saints and yes it had a slow beginning but don't stop. This book is fascinating. It depicted a part of history I was not familiar with. Having read it I have now learned more about gens du colour then I ever could have in a history book. Her characters were alive with passion and strengh. Seldom do I miss the characters written about in books but I found myself wishing to follow them further in their journeys. An excellent book!!
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Summary: Stick with supernatural characters....
Review: This book is a waste of time. The vampires, the witches, and Ramses were better. I didnt like this. There were too many french terms used in this story not to mention too many characters. The life of Jean Jaques was too short. I recommend not to even start this book.
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Summary: Eh...
Review: Am I the only one who gets irritated by Anne's constant misogyny?
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