Blood Canticle: The Vampire Chronicles (Vampire Chronicles, #10)

by Professor Anne Rice

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing Vampire Chronicles continue with the story of Lestat’s quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair, beginning where Blackwood Farm left off.

Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who’s come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat’s help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona’s child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book’s centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion with Memnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy’s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair.

A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise, Blood Canticle is Anne Rice at her finest.

• ISBN10: 037541200X
• ISBN13: 9780375412004
• Publish Date: 28 October 2003
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
• Format: Hardcover (Deckle Edge)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780375412004

Reviews

Very disappointing for a book told from Lestat's POV. It felt more like a chore to read than any of the other VC. I just wish Ms. Rice would stop insisting on forcing her Mayfair Witches into the vampire books. This may have been a bit more enjoyable if she had left out all the other Mayfairs.

[inlibrisveritas]

Once again Lestat is back to his ol' writing game. I must say at times I was wondering why he was talking like some new age kid, but then he's old suave and articulate style would seep back in. It was a fairly quick moving book all the way through which is somewhat rare for a Vampire Chronicle and I got through it in about three days...which is probably the quickest I've read one of the books.