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I loved the Mayfair Witches and have read any and all Anne Rice's books that even mentions Rowan, Mona, Michael, Oncle Julien , and Stella! Of course, if your an Anne Rice fan like I am then you have read all the Vampire Chronicles! I have read all the stand alone books like Ramses the Great, I've read them all but the Mayfair family still is my obsession and I wait patiently (well, not really! I've never been very patient) for the next story that brings me back to that jewel of a house in the Garden District. Rowan's fate and what becomes of that gorgeous Irish man, Michael? You can't help but have a crush on that beautiful man. I want something great to happen to Michael. For him to finally find happiness and the family he dreams of having. Did I enjoy this book? Absolutely!!


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Blood Canticle Vampire Chronicles Anne Rice 9780099460176 Books Reviews

Melancholy. I think losing her husband took a mighty toll on Anne. The story seemed "off" for some reason... Or maybe my own melancholy colored my enjoyment.
I really like the book, however page 214 of Blood Canticle ended and a completely different book (Empire of Ivory) started from pgs. 217 thru 248). Then Blood Canticle restarts on pg. 247. Does not pick where left off so I plan to return for a replacement. Bummer. The publisher must have had a time lapse?
I am going to make this short....if you have even the slightest interest in vampire fiction Anne rice is a must read...
Anybody who hated the Twilight Saga and how the main vampire was a wuss and sparkled has no worries with the vampires of Anne Rice....Her vampire to have Beauty and a romantic side, but it is always in plain site that they are dangerous.
go the Anne's Bookshelf at [...] Start with the first book that started her fame "interview with a vampire" (yes it's better than the movie) and make your way through all the books in order....maybe even venture into her Mayfair Witches trilogy that blends in with the vampire world in a couple books. ENJOY!
This is one of my favorite authors book and Black Wood Farm . I don't even know how many times I read theses to books . I am waiting patiently for November 29th when her next book comes out. Next I will read Prince Lestat , I love her writings she is one of the best writers I've know, Thank you Anne Rice
Too wordy. Not enough substance to the characters and they act as if they have lost all common sense and sense of decorum. I struggled to complete this book compared to how I flew thru previous titles. I look forward to the next installment regardless
Given the many scathing reviews of "Blood Canticle," I had very low expectations starting in on this. My verdict after reading it is, basically, it is not the disaster others have found, but it is a book with major flaws. It is nowhere near as bad as "Memnoch the Devil" (hard to imagine that anything that could be) but it is far from Rice's best work. But along with the flaws there are strengths as well. For those who have loved the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches trilogy, and especially those (like me) who loved "Blackwood Farm," "Blood Canticle" is worth reading although one has to put up with major annoyances along the way.

Anne Rice has three major gifts as a writer, and they are formidable (1) she knows how to tell a story and spin a plot, (2) she creates vivid and fascinating characters, and (3) she is an excellent wordsmith and her writing style, at its best, is rich and compelling. But she is a mediocre philosopher and an even worse religious thinker, and so when she veers off into these areas, her books suffer. (It was because "Memnoch" had a minimum of plot and an overdose of philosopy and religion that made it so awful.) The biggest problem with "Blood Canticle" is that, while the plot is good, the characters and the writing are very uneven, and there is too much of Lestat pondering Good And Evil and wanting to be a saint (yes, really).

"Blood Canticle"s greatest strength is that underneath all the annoying stuff, there is a good story. And some of the characters are well-drawn, especially Tante Oscar and Dolly Jean. Vampire Quinn doesn't have much to do except moon protectively over Mona and so he is a bit of a cipher, nowhere near as vivid as in "Blackwood Farm." I liked Vampire Mona. Of course, I liked Mortal Mona (I know others didn't), and her undead incarnation was in line with that I would have expected her to be. Rowan Mayfair gets the hots for Lestat while poor long-suffering Michael Curry looks on patiently. We meet some new Taltos who are OK but nowhere near as vivid as Ashlar or Morrigan.

The biggest problems with this book, as noted above, are (1) the character of Lestat, and (2) the erratic quality of the writing. Rice has, for some unfathomable reason, turned Lestat into a profoundly annoying person who talks in pseudo-hip lingo like some half-baked moronic Valley Girl. (At one point she has Lestat saying, "Pa-LEESE" - I kid you not.) Lestat is constantly making flip little asides as if Rice is trying to mock her own previous style of writing the character, and mocking her readers' expectations of Lestat. It doesn't work. Rice repeatedly breaks the "fourth wall" of fiction and inserts herself, Anne Rice, into the picture in a very irritating way. Worst of all, Rice has turned Lestat into a bore, a truly remarkable feat given the compelling and unique persona she has created over the years.

Readers should be warned that the first chapter is the worst, possibly the most God-awful writing ever to come from Anne Rice's pen. As I was reading it, with the kind of appalled fascination one has driving past a grisly car wreck, I thought, "I'm not going be able to make it through this." Things aren't helped by the fact that Rice, using Lestat's narrative voice, basically scolds and mocks her readers for not liking "Memnoch the Devil," even pointing out that the book sold more copies than any of her other books. It's pathetic. But...the first few chapters are the worst, and while Lestat continues to be deeply annoying throughout (and not in a good or provocative way), and while the quality of the writing continues to be far below Rice's considerable best, things do get better once Rice gets going on the story. So if you just persevere, you will eventually get past the unbearably irritating crap and find the book more readable. At least, I did.

I gather that the new "Prince Lestat" is a considerable improvement. I certainly hope so, because at her considerable best Anne Rice is one of the best and most entertaining fiction writers of our time.
Cut the first two chapters of Lestat's defensive blabbing and several paragraphs of the last and you have an ok story. It was good to get an update on the Mayfairs and the Taltos and it intertwined adequately with the vampire stories.

Given all the references to Memnoch the Devil, which I loved, Lestat's shallow perspective was pretty disappointing. I found it especially unbelievable that the love of his life turned out to be the sociopathic Rowan, one of the most unlikable cold characters I've encountered in Rice's writing.
I loved the Mayfair Witches and have read any and all Anne Rice's books that even mentions Rowan, Mona, Michael, Oncle Julien , and Stella! Of course, if your an Anne Rice fan like I am then you have read all the Vampire Chronicles! I have read all the stand alone books like Ramses the Great, I've read them all but the Mayfair family still is my obsession and I wait patiently (well, not really! I've never been very patient) for the next story that brings me back to that jewel of a house in the Garden District. Rowan's fate and what becomes of that gorgeous Irish man, Michael? You can't help but have a crush on that beautiful man. I want something great to happen to Michael. For him to finally find happiness and the family he dreams of having. Did I enjoy this book? Absolutely!!