Blood Canticle (Vampire Chronicles)
Average Rating: 3.0 Stars
by Anne Rice
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345443691
Product Description
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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Customer Reviews
Little bit of both ...
3 Stars
The story content of this book was very interesting to me. I wished that maybe there was some more debt into the Taltos but alas, I have lots of wishes.
With this being the last book in the Chronicles and especially from Lestat's eye, it left me with NO closure. I was impressed that for once she didn't have Lestat turn someone, but to just end it and leave the world wondering what happenes is very frustrating to me. With this being the last book in the series, I personally was looking for some closure for the characters. Or should I say more closure. Even if it is just an Epilogue to sum it all up.
I do not think of this book as a bad book. I enjoyed reading it. I can not say that it was bad. When the plot was in focus I was enthralled!
~ J. Mahurin,
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I loved the book. I cried at the end.
5 Stars
First off, I don't believe the negative reviews are real. I agree with Mrs. Rice that there is something askew there. The distribution of reviews is not like her other books and something is strange there.
I loved this book. I cried at the end. I can't believe people were so harsh on this. I've read all the books now and LeStat is himself in this. He's vane, brutal and funny at times. He hardly used gangster language in the book and it's in jest. I can't believe the fuss over that. He's with 21 century young people, so what did we expect? He can't stay in the past.
He's LeStat in all his glory, but he eventually learns what true love is. He doesn't describe Rowan much. He doesn't look at her physically like he looks and describes everything and everyone else in his shallow life. He wants to be bad, but he's good and he finally loves another person's soul for who that person is and not what they look like. Even with Talbot he found him handsome even as an older man.
We don't get a really good description from him of what the female Dr. Rowan looks like. She's nothing outstanding and he isn't really into what she looks like, but he sees her soul. He finally realizes what true love is and not the shallow love he tends to get involved in. He sacrifices his soul for true love and that is the beauty of this book. At times his comments on himself had me laughing and the ending had me crying. Well done!
~ Jaga,
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Lestat is bloody cool
5 Stars
This is my first Anne Rice novel of her Vampire Series. I had to get it from the library because money is so bloody hard to come by. Let's face it, we aren't Lestat who inherited so much money and apparently it never runs out. This dude is like 200 years old, you have to wonder how much he has?
I absolutly adore this book! I love Lestat and his secret desire to be a saint. How he calls himself a 'gutter punk' and uses words like 'yo' and 'dude'. It is just simply amazing!
ugh, I could have done without Mona.In fact, she reminded me of Moaning Myrtle from Harry Potter. *lol* the whole ghost thing was amusing and Lestat was all cool with his 'your going to fall in love with me' line. I think I have fallen in love. But, back to Mona.... She should have just died, just died. Sorry but I didn't like that character at all. Nope. nope. nope. I mainly just read the book to see what joke or vain comparision Lestat was going to call himself next. I didn't see his "I'm the James Bond of all Vampires" line, but that one is amusing.
needless to say, I plan on getting these books, good or bad. I'll probably get the books with the worst reviews at a price of pennies. *lol*
~ G. Callicott,
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Just another amazing title from Anne Rice.
5 Stars
This book, as every other Anne Rice book I've ever read, left me wanting more. Not in a way that I feel the plot was lacking, but in a way that made me feel sad that this was the end of the line. I have read every Anne Rice book she's ever written - and never been disappointed. Even her strange religious excursions have been at least interesting. Sitting down to read the Witching Hour I was appalled at first to see the entire thing was mostly history of the family. I didn't see how that could possibly mean anything to the family or the current events. What happened instead was an obsession for the detail and other-worldly life Rice can make you believe in.
Blood Canticle was EXACTLY what I was hoping for. Another amazing Anne Rice novel. Lestat has returned, and has progressed in life and character - as I feel he should with the changing times and changing events. The Blackwood family is simply exotic and Mona, dear Mona is almost bitterly annoying in her plight for love and Ophelia death. I can't say enough about the entire series (that being both the Mayfair Witches and the Vampire Chronicles). Read every book beginning to end. You won't ever been disappointed. Anne Rice doesn't create just a story, she creates another world.
~ B. Goodman,
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