Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles Hardcover – Deckle Edge, October 28, 2014 Author: Visit Amazon’s Anne Rice Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles – Deckle Edge, October 28, 2014
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- Series: The Vampire Chronicles
- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Knopf (October 28, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307962520
- ISBN-13: 978-0307962522
- Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2 in Books > literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Vampires
- #2 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Occult
- #3 in Books > science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban
If you’re a fan of the Vampire Chronicles you may have had some mixed emotions about titles beyond Queen of the Damned. I found Tale of the Body Thief interesting in the beginning and at the end, but the middle was, at times, a tad painful. Memnoch the Devil was polarizing, to say the least, and even a die-hard like me must admit a certain difficulty with the hybrid Mayfair/Vampire novels. That said, Prince Lestat is everything Anne Rice’s best novels have ever been and then some. Rice has become truly masterful at drawing the reader on.
All the old favorites come back out in Prince Lestat, Armand, Louis, Gabrielle, Marius, and David, and so, too, ancillary characters or even characters previously referred to but unnamed in earlier works. The familiar characters are themselves after all these years, with no slippage in continuity or feel, and yet they are as vibrant as they were when we met them for the first time. There are also so many “new” characters, from fledglings to the First Brood and Queen’s Blood who were first Born to Darkness in Ancient Egypt. Each new character has a particular magnetism, from the beautiful Allesandra to the dangerous Rhoshamandes and his fledgling, the tender-hearted Benedict (Lestat’s grandsire In the Blood). Naturally, one need not have read all the novels to appreciate this one and it may be the first introduction to Rice’s world for some—that’s perfectly all right. She has written something that will appeal to first-time readers and Lestatophiles.
Without spoilers I will say the novel is centered on an existential threat to the Vampire Species which necessarily draws them together despite the weariness of the Ancients and the solitary nature of most of the Undead. Lestat must rise as a reluctant leader or risk the destruction of the Vampire race.
You thought I was gonna say ‘track’, didn’t you, DIDN’T YOU?! Well, no, I believe Lestat is done with the whole rock star phase of his life–you know, after all the havoc it caused–so you won’t be finding any new tracks in this book.
But you will find a massive host of characters! I said ‘new’ above in the title, but most of the ‘new’ characters are not new, but were very minor side characters in previous books in The Vampire Chronicles and have been fleshed out and cleverly weaved into the tapestry of vampire history Anne Rice has created. You’ll even see the return of characters you had believed were dead! But to avoid spoilers, that’s all I’m saying on that point.
The way Anne Rice weaves together character story lines across millennia is pure genius. In scope, it reminds me of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, but the style of writing and storytelling is quite different. A fair amount of Prince Lestat is written in a kind of narrative summary style, which isn’t to everyone’s taste, but I actually loved it. It means that when Anne Rice comes out of this style, which she does in action scenes and for most of the dialogue, it gives a fast-paced feel to the reading experience; you kind of know she has purposely upped the ante.
And the story also takes you all across the globe, which is totally fun! And if I haven’t mentioned it already, I love this book!
I’m trying to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible, but I think it’s fair to vaguely mention aspects that are hinted at in the synopsis. The main mystery that drives this novel forward is The Voice–a rambling and rather capricious voice that can enter vampires’ minds and is compelling ancient blood drinkers to immolate the younger vampires. Who or what is this Voice?
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