About this title: Miami, 1992. Lestat, vampire-hero, rockstar, seducer of millions - is desperate to be free from the nightmare of his own immortality. The next in the series of "Vampire Chronicles", including "Interview With the Vampire", "The Vampire Lestat", "The Queen of the Damned" and "The Mummy".
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780345384751ISBN:034538475X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight binding. Lightly tanning pages. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Vampire Chronicles (Paperback), 4. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780345384751ISBN:034538475X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Light edge and corner wear. No marks. First free page torn loose, otherwise tight binding. Light corner crease on front cover. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Vampire Chronicles (Paperback), 4. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780345384751ISBN:034538475X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Vampire Chronicles (Paperback), 4. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780345384751ISBN:034538475X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slight wear on cover, overall good condition, no marks or underlines, binding tight. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 448 p. Vampire Chronicles (Paperback), 4. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This was a recent Goodreads recommendation and since I really liked other works by Anne Rice, and since the vampire craze has resurfaced, I thought I would enjoy a return to the genre. Maybe the movie "Twilight" has spoiled me for the old vampire stories or maybe the classic "Interview with a Vampire" just cannot be surpassed. I am not disparaging the author because I really admire her ability to write so beautifully ranging from erotica to Christianity with the old vampire books falling somewhere in the middle. However, this book just failed to hold my attention."
"Better than The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. I can't really say what I liked about this one without giving away the plot of the story. However, once you realise what/who the body thief is, you know for sure that Lestat is going to put himself in danger - the daredevil that he is. The risk is well worth taking and this is a good read."
"Another great book in the Vampire Chronicles, and possibly one of my favourites so far...
We already knew that Lestat is awesome; the petulant, selfish, petty and yet incredibly charming, intelligent and seductive vampire hero of the series, and through this book we must now add another descriptive - hilarious.
Rice solves the problem of having a near invincible hero through a concept that I thought worked incredibly well; by having him take part in a trade - his body for that of a mortal man, for a period of 2 nights and a day, believing that the dream of vampires is to be reborn again as human. When the Body Thief (the guy he's traded with) promptly disappears (which, of course he was going to Lestat, you bloody idiot) Lestat finds it more a nightmare than a dream being stuck in such a fragile body and starts a desperate search for the fiend so he can recover his own and wreak revenge.
Rice really has a firm grasp on Lestat's voice now and he's never less than entertaining (even while being a complete bastard), but never more so than during his period stuck in the mortal body. His complete wretchedness and fits of near hysteria every time he has to do something simple like walking on a rug (he could fall and smash his head open) or shaving his beard (he's bound to slit his throat), along with his temper tantrums (his arson attack on Louis' home during a fit of pique, and his protests of 'I'm the leader!' during the assembling of his new coven are just a couple of such great moments) had me guffawing loudly. It'll be extremely interesting to see how the dynamics of this new group play themselves out over the coming books (if they do at all), and I'm looking forward to them immensely."
"This was my second Anne Rice book the first about a mummy which I thoroughly enjoyed. She writes romantically about her subject matter so the pace is a little slower tahn I expected but it didn't detract from the read, if anything it made me feel that Lestat could have been real. Will def read some of the others now"
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