Blood Canticle - Anne Rice

Advantages: Continuation of the Chronicles - addictive read
Disadvantages: Feeling that it is the last of the Chronicles

...was passed to the fellow Blood Children in his know, Lestat blasts us back into our seats from the get go. For those people who haven’t read any of the Vampire Chronicles please allow me to lay a brief outline. The Vampire Chronicles are a series of fictional (?) novels, supposedly real narratives passed to Anne Rice to inform the world about the true nature and habits of Vampires - they are also a baring of souls for the tormented beings that reside ...
...tale none the less) Merrick Blood and Gold Blackwood Farm Blood Canticle Anne Rice ever so kindly starts her novels exactly where she left us. She picks us up off the floor, dusts us down while we are frantically rifling the back of the book looking for the chapters she surely missed and voila! Here they are in her new book. And so with Blood Canticle, Lestat flawlessly takes over the story-telling from Quinn - the Vampire Master of Blackwood ... Read review

Advantages: "I want to be worshipped"
Disadvantages: Are there any?

...this time. Blood Canticle. The Lady of the Night returns. (and no, that is NOT that hooker over on Pine street you have been eyeing for the last week.) The Queen of the Damned herself (remember, Akasha is DEAD) has arisen once more to enthrall us with the stories that Lestat himself, The Brat Prince of the Undead, has personally dictated to her. (yes, I believe Lestat is REAL, and that he does privately correspond with Lady Rice so that we can ...
...Madam Rice get all her fantastic and unbelievable stories? Now, on to her LATEST retelling of Lestat's life. Lestat is BACK, or should I say -- "HE"S BAAAAAACK" This time, his honor and his true love for the human race shows through, and almost gets him in a true bind. I loved Blackwood farm, where we were introduced to Quinn, a fledgling, not of his own making, who dared to sneak into Lestat's New Orleans flat to deliver a message to Lestat, ... Read review

Advantages: The Chronciles are finished
Disadvantages: Your favourite characters are not the same

I am very surprised by the positive books this book has recieved. I expected to read negative reviews from people who share the same disappointment as myself. I've read a lot of Anne Rice and this is undoubtedly the worst. The tantilizing character of Lestat has changed- and not for the better. His vanity becomes arrogant and simply obnoxious. Rice's new found relgious fervour finds it's way into this book and destroys her characters. Lestat becomes ...
...for my liking. The book is sloppily written, and I'm not the first to say this. She recieved so many negative reviews on amazon and from critics she posted her own reply on Amazon claiming her critics to be wrong. This is the worst possible ending to the Vampire Chronicles and left me feeling disappointed. I would recommend reading this book only to finish the chronicles but not to go in expecting much. ... Read review