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Anne Rice breathed new life into her Vampire Chronicles with her novel "Merrick," featuring three of her most popular characters--the vampires Lestat, Louis and the dead child vampire Claudia--and introduced them to the world of her Mayfair Witches series. Merrick Mayfair is a sultry, hard-drinking beauty whose witchcraft plays a prominent role throughout the story arc. Louis, who made Claudia a vampire in Rice's classic "Interview with the Vampire," brings about the collision of the two universes. He is obsessed with raising Claudia's ghost to make amends and seek guidance from the great beyond. Vampire David Talbot asks Merrick to call Claudia's spirit in order to assuage Louis's guilt, but Talbot winds up in the grip of an obsession with the witch. After she reads his palm, he muses, "I wanted to take her in my arms, not to feed from her, no, not harm her, only kiss her, only sink my fangs a very little, only taste her blood and her secrets, but this was dreadful and I wouldn't let it go on." The secrets of "Merrick" are dark and sensuous. The narrative flashes back to scenes from many of Rice's other novels. After so many installments, Rice's Vampire Chronicles were in danger of becoming too formulaic. Merrick Mayfair's magical character put a new spin on an old top.Read full review
This book is an excellent book to read. The one thing that I love about Anne Rice and her style of writing, is she keeps you intranced with the characters. If people out there like to read about fictional vampires and love to be inspired, than this is the book for you. Anne Rice is my number one author of choice and anyone who reads her books will see why. Enjoy!
I purchased this book for my grandson who is stationed in Iraq. He really enjoyed these vampire books and asked that I send him this book which he had left at one of the bases. It must have been good because he has read all these books before and wants to read them again.
I have alot of anne rice books, I love the vampire chronicles, the vampire lestat, interview with the vampire, I think that Queen of the damned is my all time favorite, she is an excellent writer, I wouldlove to be in her head when she was putting her novels to paper!
I just love the Vampire Chronicles and recommend highly to pick them all up its a very enjoyable read, I read them all in ebook form but am happy to now have almost all in book form
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