Anne Rice's "Pandora" from Warner Bros.

Aurita: This is a great read with characters deep and defined. You want to read more and more. The excitement for the next chapter always remains as you are diving deep into this wonderful read.

United States on Feb 20, 2023

dawn: Absolutely adore this book, getting it from Pandora’s view on those who must be kept is interesting, and on how her and Marius met.

United Kingdom on Nov 15, 2022

living_in_wonderland_: This is, by far, one of my favorite books by the late (and trust me, mourned) Anne Rice. I read it very early in life after shooting through another handful of her books. I always recommend Anne Rice's books to friends. I love all of her work and plan to get a copy of every novel on my kindle. You should also try her son Christopher Rice's books by the way. He definitely got her amazing gifts of fluid, and amazingly detailed descriptive writing. I'm loving the wonderful books he and Anne wrote together. Please read both of their books. You will never be disappointed!

United States on Jun 05, 2022

Tonya Spain: I've read the story itself several times and adore it. I purchased this to replace my original hardcover that I'd lost somehow. Though it says it's still printed by Knopf it appears as though it's a "cheaper" version than the original hardcover. None of the gorgeous glossed pages with Byzantine art are present in this printing.

United States on Feb 10, 2022

Donna Fleming: excellent

Canada on Jan 08, 2018

Alison's Catty Book Corner: Pandora by Anne Rice

***** 5 stars

Book Blurb:

A Vampire Chronicles novella from the internationally bestselling Anne Rice

In a cafe in modern-day Paris, in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the fearless and beautiful Pandora begins to tell her tale of treachery, vengeance and love stretching across two millennia. As a young mortal in Imperial Rome in the time of Caesar Augustus, Pandora was first introduced to the blood-tainted cult of Isis. Later, in exile in Antioch, she was drawn even further into the dark, ancient rites. Now looking back across the centuries, Pandora decides to return once more to New Orleans, to find the love of her early life, Marius, and to see once again the Vampire Lestat...

Review:

This is the first book in the series of New Tales of the Vampires and tells the story of Pandora.

Pandora was born 15 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. She has lived a long and interesting life, at first with her love Marius and then alone. She is a vibrant character full of life and immensely intelligent. Always ready to learn from others and to teach her skills to young vampires.

David a young...

United Kingdom on Aug 21, 2017

Emmgee: Déception pour ce livre, le premier dont le narrateur est un vampire féminin (catégorie de personnages manquant cruellement d'épaisseur dans les Chroniques).

Qu'on ne s'attende pas à suivre Pandora en tant que vampire, ou à revivre en profondeur ses années avec Marius, ou à comprendre ses années avec Arjun : Pandora ne rejoint le monde de la nuit qu'aux trois quarts du bouquin.
Son histoire en tant que femme émancipée dans la Rome antique aurait pu être intéressante si le livre avait été vendu comme tel (quand on s'attend à une histoire de vampires, on ne peut qu'être déçus) et le type du personnage reste vu, revu et unidirectionnel dans la catégorie "femme forte". On aurait pu s'attendre à plus de profondeur et de complexité de la part de Anne Rice.

On n'échappe pas aux leçons d'histoire, sur l'Empire romain, la chute de l'Empire et le naissance et l'expansion du christianisme. Contrairement au Sang et l'Or où Marius évoluait parmi les changements de la société, Pandora reste en marge du début à la fin, ce qui rend ces passages clairement laborieux.

En bref, à lire pour ceux qui veulent compléter les...

France on Jan 25, 2014

Azariah: Having read all of the previous books to this one, I enjoyed reading this and liked the way it filled the gaps in some of the previous stories. I would, however, recommend reading this book after the books that come before it, as you may be confused as to who some of the characters are. It's also much shorter than the previous books and I finished reading it within two days! I am a very fast reader, though ;)

United Kingdom on May 04, 2012

T. Marsh: I wasn't really all that familiar with Anne Rice except through the Mayfair series (Blood Canticle, for me, was part 4 of the Mayfair Witch series, though I knew of Lestat from the movies). This was given to me as a gift when it first came out. I liked it. That whole Taltos thing was a bit Lovecraftian in the way Anne told this. A big Rice fan liked my novel, "Other Nations", and said that if Anne had written my novel, it would have been 6 books and not 6 chapters :) Ok. Now that I've read more Anne, maybe my novel would have been 10 books in her hands :) At least I can see what this fan meant. I didn't quite see that when I only read the Mayfair/Taltos stories. I see it with the Vampire stuff, definitely. Anne is also telling it from the other side, not the human side. I did the same in my novel - from the non-human side, not the same old "good versus evil" stuff.

I like sci fi, and TV shows about Vampires are, for me, sci fi of a sort. Very recently, another Rice fan said "read Blood and Gold" and so, I tried it and LOVED LOVED LOVED it. After I read it, I checked the reviews. Negative reviews said that B and G was like rereading the first 3...

United States on Jan 14, 2009

Loki Shams: Wow! I was literally swept off my feet in this entrancing tale. This is Anne Rice at her best. This novel has it all, Romance, Intrigue, and Drama. But best of all, it has History.
Oh, how I love history. From Ancient Egypt, to the Roman Empires and Greek Mythology. It is just beautiful. Anne Rice is a great Historical storyteller. She obviously does meticulous research, and she takes her knowledge and spins a mesmerizing tale of olden times, when people lived life, just for the sake of living.
She writes of an era, when time was abundant. And it was spent with families and close friends, reading, writing and gaining insight into their life. Expanding their minds with philosophy and poetry and just about anything that was within their grasp. When time really did take a lifetime, and it was savored with all its beauty. Unlike now, with time passing by, faster than we can blink.
This is not another novel of a Vampire in Rices collection,this is the story of Pandora. A woman whose mind rivaled that of a scholar, her thirst for knowledge and the meaning of what it is to exist, her main quest in this life. She is a woman who is betrayed, but that will not...

United States on Nov 30, 2000