Of course, just like people in real life, some of them pursue their victims in an evil way. Anyway, these are what I call 'beach books', which in my mind are quick, guilty reads that absorb you so completely you forget how hot the sun is and the fact that there is sand in the crotch of your bathing suit.Īnne Rice is superb! She has created a cast of vampires who have a moral conscience in spite of their blood thirsts. Maybe I just envy their ability to stay up all night ). What is it? Is it immortality that so intrigues? Power? Eh.I don't know. It builds on itself from book to book, stretching your imagination across centuries. I was very anti-social that summer! The mythology Rice creates around vampires is epic and, strangely, believable (in a vampire sort of way). Though I have not re-read them since, I remember being so enraptured by Lestat and the dark and mysterious vampire world he inhabits that I would gobble up the pages during my lunch break at Beaver Country Day school as a camp counselor. I don't know why vampires are so fascinating-these books, the Twilight Series, True Blood (an excellent HBO series), The Lost Boys, Salem's Lot, etc., but I got hooked on these books when I was in high school. “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.These are such a guilty pleasure for me. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind–in this vivid novel of the erotic, electrifying world of the undead. To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time.”Īkasha, the queen of the damned, has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night.

Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. His is a mesmerizing story–passionate and thrilling. Once an aristocrat from pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the decadent 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries seeking to fathom the mystery of his existence. Anne Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth–the education of the vampire.” “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller. A novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force, it is a story of danger and flight, love and loss, suspense and resolution, and the extraordinary power of the senses. Now, in one chilling volume, here are the first three classic novels of The Vampire Chronicles.

It all began a quarter of a century ago with Interview with the Vampire. The hypnotic, deeply seductive novels of Anne Rice have captivated millions of fans around the world.

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