Blood Canticle: The Vampire Chronicles, Book 10
Written by Anne Rice
Narrated by Stephen Spinella
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
Anne Rice continues her astonishing Vampire Chronicles in a new novel that begins where Blackwood Farm left off - and tells the story of Lestat's quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.
Welcome back to Blackwood Farm. Here are all of the brilliantly conceived characters that make up the two worlds of vampires and witches: Mona Mayfair, who's come to the farm to die and is brought into the realm of the undead; her uncle, Julian Mayfair, guardian of the family, determined to forever torment Lestat for what he has done to Mona; Rowan Mayfair, brilliant neurosurgeon and witch, who finds herself dangerously drawn to the all-powerful Lestat; her husband, Michael Curry, hero of the Mayfair Chronicles, who seeks Lestat's help with the temporary madness of his wife; Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos who has taken Mona's child; and Patsy, the country-western singer, who returns to avenge her death at the hands of her son, Quinn Blackwood. Delightfully, at the book's centre is the Vampire Lestat, once the epitome of evil, now pursuing the transformation set in motion with Memnoch the Devil. He struggles with his vampirism and yearns for goodness, purity and love, as he saves Patsy's ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, uncovers the mystery of the Taltos and unselfishly decides the fate of his beloved Rowan Mayfair.
A story of love and loyalty, of the search for passion and promise, Blood Canticle is Anne Rice at her finest.
Anne Rice
A.N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.
Related to Blood Canticle
Related audiobooks
A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bear and the Serpent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Suddenly Magical Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSins of Omission Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Dog Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Guide, The (A Legacy Novella) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAssegai Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jane Austen's Greatest Novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Orphan Witch: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder Stone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisoners' Club - Tea? Coffee? Murder!, Episode 5 (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsQuinn's Undying Rose (Scanguards Vampires #6) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wicked Autumn: A Max Tudor novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Further Chronicles of Avonlea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Silent Stalker: Lowrance Vampires #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThrone for Sisters, A (Books 5 and 6) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shifter Prophecy, The: Books 1-4 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Nearly Girl Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Adored Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVampire Journals Bundle (Books 4 and 5) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOf Crowns and Glory: Knight, Heir, Prince and Rebel, Pawn, King (Books 3 and 4) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Thrillers For You
The Rose Code: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Never Lie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fairy Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Silent Patient Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fool Me Once Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Guest List: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Perfect Marriage: a completely gripping psychological suspense Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Local Woman Missing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Teacher Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfect: A Thriller That Will Grab You By Your DNA Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Inmate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mr. Mercedes: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The It Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Flicker in the Dark: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Troop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Turn of the Key Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Billy Summers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Dangerous Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Green Mile Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Blood Canticle
646 ratings12 reviews
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I keep swearing off Rice's books. They inevitably disappoint. But I keep winding up with a copy of some novel I haven't read and searching for some glimmer of the talent that showed up in her earlier books. You won't find it here.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5it felt like Anne Rice enjoyed writing this and it was an easy read. It's supposed to be the last in the series, but Lestat mentions that he is uneasy about those parts of an island that he didn't explore. Still, Lestat seems to have matured.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5In the Blood Canticle, Anne Rice decided to take all of her characters: vampires from the Vampire Chronicles, witches from the Mayfair Witches and Taltos, and throw them all together and see what happens. The end result is sometimes good, sometimes bad, but often times messy. The new Lestat, using new yet not quite updated language, narrates the novel. It brings in Rowan Mayfair, who he has a thing for, and Mona Mayfair, who he recently made into a vampire. They congregate in Blackwood Farms and after a very long-winded and tedious narrative, wind up in Haiti, where the Taltos were at.As with many of Anne Rice’s later works, this novel is entirely too long with entirely too much fluff and useless information. Sometimes I get the impression that Anne Rice writes in order to impress herself with the beauty of her prose, which doesn’t exactly make for great reading. The novel isn’t all bad. Lestat is an enjoyable character and there was some decent action in this novel. It doesn’t stack up to her early Vampire Chronicle novels, but isn’t as bad as some of her recent work.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A lovely and fitting end to the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches sagas, a melding and merging of the tales that offers a satisfying resolution to both. The Vampire Lestat is back to normal, the Brat Prince himself in all his angel-looks and gangster-talk glory. His preoccupation with the Christian Religion is a bit irritating and distracting, but his descriptions of clothing and furniture are distracting in a more welcome manner. Revisiting Rowan, Michael and the Taltos is only slightly less satisfying because their lives are not as open to the view of first-person narrator Lestat. However, the mystery of the Taltos and their eventual ends are the driving plot of this tale. It's saved for the very end, but does make for a decent climax. The only character I was really irritated with was Mona, but she's always been kind of irritating, except in Blackwood Farm. She was true to her original character, though, so that was nice, even if she wasn't terribly sympathetic. Again, though, a very satisfying book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don't really know what to make of this book. I like it because of its potential, but I dislike it for not reaching that full potential. I haven't read any of the other books in the Vampire Chronicles, but I think I might be tempted to read the first two or three books. I think (and an internet search has told me my suspiciouns where more of less correct) that the later books lack the liveliness and passion of the first ones.I did have trouble getting into the story. I often questioned what the point was to the entire book. You don't get to the Taltos until much later in the book and they are supposed to be what this book is more of less about. (I disliked the entire idea of the Taltos by the way. These Walking Babies were too far fetched and lacked anything poetic. Even the term 'Walking Babies' sounds so flat and unimaginative.)The language in the book confuses me from time to time. The musings and fragments of conversations and dreams add very little to the story. A good description brings much more to a story then parts of sentences and feelings could ever do. When Rice describes Lestat in his full glory she can really pull me into the story, but she looses me time and time again with those fragments of sentences ...In conclusion: I think most of the Vampire Chronicle Books will be lost on me, except maybe the earlier ones. (However I rarely read a book of which I've already seen the movie. ie: Interview with a Vampire)
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last book of the Vampire Chronicles, a 'crossover' of the VC and the Mayfair Witches. Lestat's back, but... yes, the used modern slang's weird and yes, TOO much, annoying catholic preaching.... It could have been a great ending of a tremendous saga but unfortunately it isn't.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautiful "ending"...though I do not believe it, really. A divinely executed falsehood. This is not truly the end, and we all know it.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I have not been able to finish this book. Blackwood Farm was a struggle already, and this has gotten worse in all aspects. Plot: not recognizable on the first 100 pages. It's mostly a summary of what has happened before up to this point. Characters: The new ones are boring. The old ones are completely changed from what they've been like before, to the point where only the name makes them recognizable as someone from an earlier book. Style: Full of grammatical errors. Anne Rice later claimed this to be deliberate as a depiction of the way Lestat speaks, but she didn't do this in earlier novels from his point of view. It's highly distracting. Far too much description, and where there is no description there is random teenage horniness or religious preaching. Plus: It's the last book in the series. Minus: It's virtually unreadable. Summary: Faced with countless negative reviews, Anne Rice has ranted on Amazon and offered the money back to all those who are not intelligent enough to appreciate the story. This is one of the few books that come with a money-back guarantee, and it is sorely needed.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The latest inter-twining of the Vampires and Mayfair Witches. This book made me realize how much I HATE Romona. There's a character that should have died 3 books back.It was nice that Anne Rice gave us some more info on the Taltos, but this book left me disappointed. And fearful. Fearful of what she could turn out next if she decides to continue this Vampire/Witch Series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5this is the last in the chronicles of the vampires series and, so far, it's just really preachy and high on catholicism. blah. it was sort of a disappointing ending to the chronicles.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great beginning, not as cool at the end. I wanted a fight scene with Taltos.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Anne Rice brought Lestat back for this piece of crap? What a waste! This was utter junk.