Anne Rice's "Blood Canticle: A Vampire Chronicles Novel"

Mr.X: “The Prince Lestat… oh how I yearn to find out what you have in store for next!!!”…One like me might say this is the best so far…!!!…

United States on Aug 11, 2023

Deborah Hamill: What a masterpiece. The end of the Vampire series is a triumph. Miss her, she was as amazing as her characters

United States on Mar 26, 2023

Mamareads: It is another side of the brat Prince! After Memnoche he is more thoughtful but, no less fabulous. We get to revisit New Orleans and get a taste of this unique and multiracial, multicultural and multi -being community. I loved it!

Netherlands on Dec 24, 2021

David: Arrived very quickly.
Perfect condition.
As advertised.

Canada on May 13, 2021

C.: Good read. Not as slow and overly descriptive as some of the other books are. One of the best in the series.

United Kingdom on Feb 12, 2021

Southern Sherry: I loved the Mayfair Witches and have read any and all Anne Rice's books that even mentions Rowan, Mona, Michael, Oncle Julien , and Stella! Of course, if your an Anne Rice fan like I am then you have read all the Vampire Chronicles! I have read all the stand alone books like Ramses the Great, I've read them all but the Mayfair family still is my obsession and I wait patiently (well, not really! I've never been very patient) for the next story that brings me back to that jewel of a house in the Garden District. Rowan's fate and what becomes of that gorgeous Irish man, Michael? You can't help but have a crush on that beautiful man. I want something great to happen to Michael. For him to finally find happiness and the family he dreams of having. Did I enjoy this book? Absolutely!!

United States on Dec 23, 2018

LindaMM: Sardonic, self-condeming, sacrificial to his own amazement. If ever one could hug or share blood tears with a character then Lestat herein has earned such a shared vigil.
I have read this book was poorly received when first published. I can only agree with the author and with Lestat, if you don't want to hear his story told in his own way, close the book and read something else. People complained when Bob Dylan started to use electronic instruments. They forgot he was the artist not them! To restrict a musician or a writer to their past work and styles is to miss the point of creativity. It is to be controversial and it has to steer away from the formulaic. The author or the hero if you prefer has to tell the story in their own evolving fashion, true to their own heart. Almost, but this a paying enterprise, the audienc be damned.

For what it is worth i found this tale compelling and felt Lestat's prescence full fleshed in his Dark Blood. Read on if you dare to release the reigns to him.

United Kingdom on Aug 17, 2018

ladybug: Anne Rice has combined two of her most popular series: The Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches series. Although, initially the combination was somewhat contrived, it did have a backstory in the last volume, Blackwood Farm. There were familiar characters, and reminiscences of past events in other books. The character of Lestat was further developed, and even though the character Mona Mayfair appeared to develop borderline personality disorder after a life change, it would be understandable under the circumstances. I would recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of either of the two series it continues. Anne Rice never disappoints! It would be entertaining to see this series continue, and if anyone has the imagination to do that, it's Ms. Rice.

United States on Apr 24, 2013

Kay: This is the concluding book in the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, and if you are a fan of her books you wont be disappointed. Final book takes us on a journey with the Vampire Lestat and his versions of the events from the end of the Blackwood Farm book and the events that followed. This book includes the Mayfair Witch clan and goes some way to explaining their myths although after reading this i am now itching to read the three books Rice wrote on the Mayfair Witches.

A must have for any Vampire Chronicles fan.

United Kingdom on Jan 06, 2012

Harold Polsky: Having just finished this book, I had to put down in words my dismay at all the reviews that blasted it.
I understand why some people don't like it. This is not the Lestat they thought they knew. The style of the story is different. And there are none of the friends we have come to know and love, like Louis, Armand and Marius.
But if you stop and think back over the whole Vampire Chronicle series, you will see that this book (hopefully not the last as Anne Rice has said) was inevitable.
Lestat wants to be a saint; He tells us this almost from the very beginning. He talks about it as if there was nothing left for him to be but a saint. This is not the Lestat we have seen in some of the other Chronicle books. That Lestat was seen as evil, and as "Cain, the slayer of my brother". But you have to remember that Lestat's words have only been used in four of the previous nine books. Louis told us the story in Interview with the Vampire, Armand told his own story, David told us of Merrick, Marius gave us the rest of his tale in Blood and Gold, and Quinn Blackwood told us the story of Blackwood Farm. When these others talked of Lestat, they were not using his words, his style....

United States on Nov 27, 2003