The blessing is that, while some of the scenes may be scary, the author keeps hope alive and goodness prevails in the end. They also have a very erotic quality to them. In these books, you will travel to a new dimension. Like Anne, he paints vivid word pictures that will take you on a fantastic journey and leave you wanting more. If you like Anne Rice's books, check out the books that her son, Christopher Rice has written. I trust that any of you will feel the same way once you become involved in the intriguing and captivating tales. Although many of the vampire stories are long, I did not want to put them down until I had finished.

She engages the readers right from the start. The books are filled with enduring characters that are easy to relate to. Let's just say that she gets her just dessert in the end. The queen is one of the compelling vampires who seems to have lost her soul. Queen of the Damned will describe how the clan of vampires began. Pun intended! You can begin anywhere and not feel as if you have missed out on what has come before. Therefore I appreciate any book that focuses upon the soul of a person.Īs for Anne Rice's compelling vampire series, I have gobbled each one of them up. I am the writer of a series of outrageously funny novels with a spiritual message. I am a spiritual seeker who is traveling through this land of shadows, marked by the duality that we seem to experience in life. That is not the case with the vampire who she introduced us to in her first novel in the series, the vampire named Lestat. Of course, just like people in real life, some of them pursue their victims in an evil way. Anyway, these are what I call 'beach books', which in my mind are quick, guilty reads that absorb you so completely you forget how hot the sun is and the fact that there is sand in the crotch of your bathing suit.Īnne Rice is superb! She has created a cast of vampires who have a moral conscience in spite of their blood thirsts. Maybe I just envy their ability to stay up all night ).

What is it? Is it immortality that so intrigues? Power? Eh.I don't know. It builds on itself from book to book, stretching your imagination across centuries. I was very anti-social that summer! The mythology Rice creates around vampires is epic and, strangely, believable (in a vampire sort of way). Though I have not re-read them since, I remember being so enraptured by Lestat and the dark and mysterious vampire world he inhabits that I would gobble up the pages during my lunch break at Beaver Country Day school as a camp counselor.

I don't know why vampires are so fascinating-these books, the Twilight Series, True Blood (an excellent HBO series), The Lost Boys, Salem's Lot, etc., but I got hooked on these books when I was in high school.

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