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Blood Canticle: The Vampire Chronicles
Written by Anne Rice
Narrated by David Pittu
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rice's bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between death's shadow and immortality. . . .
Surrounded by its brooding swampscape, Blackwood Farm is alive with the comings and goings of the bewitched and the bewitching. Among them is the ageless vampire Lestat, vainglorious enough to believe that he can become a saint, weak enough to fall impossibly in love.
Gripped by his unspeakable desire for the mortal Rowan Mayfair and taking the not so innocent, new-to-the-blood Mona Mayfair under his wing, Lestat braves the wrath of paterfamilias Julien Mayfair and ventures to a private island off the coast of Haiti. There, Saint Lestat will get his chance to slay his dragon. For Mona and the Mayfairs share an explosive, secret blood bond to another deathless species: a five-thousand-year-old race of Taltos, strangers held in the throes of evil itself.
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Surrounded by its brooding swampscape, Blackwood Farm is alive with the comings and goings of the bewitched and the bewitching. Among them is the ageless vampire Lestat, vainglorious enough to believe that he can become a saint, weak enough to fall impossibly in love.
Gripped by his unspeakable desire for the mortal Rowan Mayfair and taking the not so innocent, new-to-the-blood Mona Mayfair under his wing, Lestat braves the wrath of paterfamilias Julien Mayfair and ventures to a private island off the coast of Haiti. There, Saint Lestat will get his chance to slay his dragon. For Mona and the Mayfairs share an explosive, secret blood bond to another deathless species: a five-thousand-year-old race of Taltos, strangers held in the throes of evil itself.
From the Paperback edition.
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Anne Rice
A.N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.
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Reviews for Blood Canticle
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I keep swearing off Rice's books. They inevitably disappoint. But I keep winding up with a copy of some novel I haven't read and searching for some glimmer of the talent that showed up in her earlier books. You won't find it here.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5it felt like Anne Rice enjoyed writing this and it was an easy read. It's supposed to be the last in the series, but Lestat mentions that he is uneasy about those parts of an island that he didn't explore. Still, Lestat seems to have matured.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In the Blood Canticle, Anne Rice decided to take all of her characters: vampires from the Vampire Chronicles, witches from the Mayfair Witches and Taltos, and throw them all together and see what happens. The end result is sometimes good, sometimes bad, but often times messy. The new Lestat, using new yet not quite updated language, narrates the novel. It brings in Rowan Mayfair, who he has a thing for, and Mona Mayfair, who he recently made into a vampire. They congregate in Blackwood Farms and after a very long-winded and tedious narrative, wind up in Haiti, where the Taltos were at.As with many of Anne Rice’s later works, this novel is entirely too long with entirely too much fluff and useless information. Sometimes I get the impression that Anne Rice writes in order to impress herself with the beauty of her prose, which doesn’t exactly make for great reading. The novel isn’t all bad. Lestat is an enjoyable character and there was some decent action in this novel. It doesn’t stack up to her early Vampire Chronicle novels, but isn’t as bad as some of her recent work.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A lovely and fitting end to the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches sagas, a melding and merging of the tales that offers a satisfying resolution to both. The Vampire Lestat is back to normal, the Brat Prince himself in all his angel-looks and gangster-talk glory. His preoccupation with the Christian Religion is a bit irritating and distracting, but his descriptions of clothing and furniture are distracting in a more welcome manner. Revisiting Rowan, Michael and the Taltos is only slightly less satisfying because their lives are not as open to the view of first-person narrator Lestat. However, the mystery of the Taltos and their eventual ends are the driving plot of this tale. It's saved for the very end, but does make for a decent climax. The only character I was really irritated with was Mona, but she's always been kind of irritating, except in Blackwood Farm. She was true to her original character, though, so that was nice, even if she wasn't terribly sympathetic. Again, though, a very satisfying book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don't really know what to make of this book. I like it because of its potential, but I dislike it for not reaching that full potential. I haven't read any of the other books in the Vampire Chronicles, but I think I might be tempted to read the first two or three books. I think (and an internet search has told me my suspiciouns where more of less correct) that the later books lack the liveliness and passion of the first ones.I did have trouble getting into the story. I often questioned what the point was to the entire book. You don't get to the Taltos until much later in the book and they are supposed to be what this book is more of less about. (I disliked the entire idea of the Taltos by the way. These Walking Babies were too far fetched and lacked anything poetic. Even the term 'Walking Babies' sounds so flat and unimaginative.)The language in the book confuses me from time to time. The musings and fragments of conversations and dreams add very little to the story. A good description brings much more to a story then parts of sentences and feelings could ever do. When Rice describes Lestat in his full glory she can really pull me into the story, but she looses me time and time again with those fragments of sentences ...In conclusion: I think most of the Vampire Chronicle Books will be lost on me, except maybe the earlier ones. (However I rarely read a book of which I've already seen the movie. ie: Interview with a Vampire)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last book of the Vampire Chronicles, a 'crossover' of the VC and the Mayfair Witches. Lestat's back, but... yes, the used modern slang's weird and yes, TOO much, annoying catholic preaching.... It could have been a great ending of a tremendous saga but unfortunately it isn't.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautiful "ending"...though I do not believe it, really. A divinely executed falsehood. This is not truly the end, and we all know it.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I have not been able to finish this book. Blackwood Farm was a struggle already, and this has gotten worse in all aspects. Plot: not recognizable on the first 100 pages. It's mostly a summary of what has happened before up to this point. Characters: The new ones are boring. The old ones are completely changed from what they've been like before, to the point where only the name makes them recognizable as someone from an earlier book. Style: Full of grammatical errors. Anne Rice later claimed this to be deliberate as a depiction of the way Lestat speaks, but she didn't do this in earlier novels from his point of view. It's highly distracting. Far too much description, and where there is no description there is random teenage horniness or religious preaching. Plus: It's the last book in the series. Minus: It's virtually unreadable. Summary: Faced with countless negative reviews, Anne Rice has ranted on Amazon and offered the money back to all those who are not intelligent enough to appreciate the story. This is one of the few books that come with a money-back guarantee, and it is sorely needed.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The latest inter-twining of the Vampires and Mayfair Witches. This book made me realize how much I HATE Romona. There's a character that should have died 3 books back.It was nice that Anne Rice gave us some more info on the Taltos, but this book left me disappointed. And fearful. Fearful of what she could turn out next if she decides to continue this Vampire/Witch Series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5this is the last in the chronicles of the vampires series and, so far, it's just really preachy and high on catholicism. blah. it was sort of a disappointing ending to the chronicles.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great beginning, not as cool at the end. I wanted a fight scene with Taltos.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Anne Rice brought Lestat back for this piece of crap? What a waste! This was utter junk.