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Summary: Average Rice book
Review: I read this book and if you are a Rice fan, you will enjoy this book. Athough not her best work, she does a decent story telling job and really brings back the characters we know and love. I'd recommend purchasing this book.
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Summary: Not worth buying
Review: Anne Rice seems to write books so out of characters from her previous VC books. The characters seem so unlike themselves. I don't understand why Ms. Rice changes her characters to suit her writing even when she is contridicting what she wrote in her previous VC books which were bestsellers. The book dosen't even deserve one star.
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Summary: Great Way to Bring Everyone Together
Review: I got an ARC of this novel, and read it a couple of weeks before it came out. Anne Rice is one of my favorite writers, yet I find her one of the most inconsistent writers ever -- it's either brilliance or BS. Luckily, she's in brilliant territory here... still not as good as Interview, Lestat, or Tale, but it's close. If you've read all her books and enjoy the characters from the different chronicles, you'll love how she brings them all together, weaving their stories in like a grand tapestry.
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Summary: A Mockery
Review: This book would have to be the worst perpetuation of tripe foisted upon her readers yet. Ms. Rice's writing ability has not only degraded in the last years, but her ability to create the sort of interesting and captivating characters which once put her in the bestseller list appears to have vanished without a trace. Merrick is nothing but a stereotype - a "Mary Sue", as it is known in the online community. Better, faster, brighter; she parades onto the scene and the former characters, Louis and Lestat and David and all of the vampires which gave birth to a revolution in the genre and the empire upon which Ms. Rice sits instantly fall at the feet of the newcomer to become as less than nothing. Far from actualy inspiring this awe, Merrick herself is a shallow facade of a character who engages the reader not at all, and the entire point of her existance, other than as a medium for a mockery of a story which paints all of the existing vampires as far out of character as one might go while still applying their names to them, is still as meaningless at the end of the book as it was at the beginning.Ms. Rice - one wonders why, once again, you felt the need to write a book placing your formerly vibrant vampires upon a stage that, in truth, would have been better served as a separate entity entirely. Merrick, if written of on her own, might have been interesting. Brought in to disrupt the lives of the vampire coven for insufficient reason, she is nothing but irritating to the reader. It calls to mind the expectations of sequels to good movies, and why so few of them actually work. These "new" tales of the vampires are just that - a poorly thought out and badly handled sequel, which can not hold a light to the originals.
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Summary: Another Fascinating Tale
Review: I, as usual, was blown away by Anne Rice. This book was a long awaited joy. I have already read the entire book and find myself wondering what's next. For anyone who is an Anne Rice fan, Merrick delivers. For those of you who have never read an Anne Rice book, I suggest you do. This one may not be the one to start with. There was a lot of history from the other books. I found myself saying "Oh, I remember when that happened" or "I forgot about that". It was wonderful and I'm looking forward to another one!
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I never read an Anne Rice novel before, this was my first one. I thought it was great. and i would recommend it to everyone who loves to read about Vampires and Witches.
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Summary: Great vampiric romance
Review: Vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac asks vampiric detective David Talbot to find a way to contact the ghost of Claudia. David knows that if anyone has the ability to do this conjuring it would have to be Merrick Mayfair, a voodoo practitioner descended from a long line of witches. Although David has not seen Merrick in years, he still turns to her for assistance. As Merrick and David discuss the ethics of disturbing the dead, a spark ignites between them. However, soon she travels to a remote part of the Guatemalan jungle where ancient powerful runes exist. However, the powerful witch remains in doubt about assisting the vampire with his quest to communicate with a ghost. Maybe it is just this reviewer, but after twenty-two supernatural tales, the vampire chronicles seem a bit anemic. Still, once the great Anne Rice gets rolling, the story line takes off at a rapid speed as vampires converge on witchworld. The joy that holds MERRICK and the previous tales together remain Ms. Rice's ability to persuade the readers that the supernatural creatures and magical powers exist especially in New Orleans. The audience will find this tale turns extremely exciting in Central America and serves to tie up loose ends from previous novels as well as setting the stage for book XXIII. Vampire aficionados will relish Ms. Rice's latest entry in her beloved series. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A pleasent melding of two chronicles.
Review: Merrick is Anne Rice's return to her beloved Vampire Chronicles, this time with a little twist. She also melds her Mayfair Chronicles into the story, creating a thrilling page-turner of a book. The story follows Rice's best vampires, Lestat, David Talbot, Louis and Claudia.
Louis is even more melencholy than usual because Claudia is on his mind. Ever since Jesse, another member of the Talasmaca told him she knew of Claudia's ghost, Louis can't get her out of his head. Lestat is still in his deep slumber, so Louis enlists David to contact one of his old students, a powerful witch named Merrick Mayfair, who still works with the Talasmaca. Louis wants Merrick to contact Claudia's ghost, to see if she is at rest or if she still wanders lost for all time, so if she isn't at peace, either Merrick or him might make her move on. By doing this Louis feels he'll somehow fill a hole that's been there ever since Claudia was originally murdered way back in Interview with the Vampire.
David agrees and recounts serveral stories about his days with Merrick when he was still human. He tells many tales of how Aaron and him came to take her into their fold and many other tales of adventures they set out on together and how powerful a witch she really is. The story comes to an end with a fateful meeting with the ghost of Claudia and a few things that happen after the fact.
Don't be too fooled by the Vampire/witch meshing though. Although Merrick is a Mayfair, she's only of distant relations to all of the main characters from Rice's original witch chronicles. Not that Merrick isn't a great character, because she is, but it would have been nice to see some of the other Mayfair's make an appearance. Still, it's nice to see the two tales join together.
This book is another well written tale by Rice. Once again she paints rich new characters, as well as furthering the immensely interesting lives of her returning characters. The tale is rich in detail and has several adventerous parts like when Merrick and David go in search of a cave secreting lost artifacts. It's fast paced and always fun.
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Summary: Slow and Boring
Review: This one is a million milles away from Interview with the Vampire or Lestat the Vampire. Slow, boring... Anne keeps making again and again the same book, with the same structure, with the same characters (well and who wont, they have made her all what she is), with the same talentless use of adjetives (beautiful, wonderful, fantastic, marvellous...) a thousand times in the same page.
I love Anne Rice. At least the earlier books. But every new book she releases is even worse than the earlier.
Skip it if you are looking for a good horror novel.
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Summary: Merrick what can I say?
Review: My mother bought this book when it first came out she didn't care much for it so she gave it to me knowing the big Anne Rice fan I am (Her sons books are good as well) I finished it in three days I could not put this book down I know that sooner or later she would mix the Mayfairs and the Vampires but I never thought that she would take it back as far as she did give Merrick a shot come on what can it hurt?
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