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| Title | : | Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles #9) |
| Author | : | Anne Rice |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 774 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Arrow books (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Paranormal. Vampires. Horror. Fantasy. Fiction |
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Paperback | Pages: 774 pages Rating: 3.86 | 29866 Users | 738 Reviews
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Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.
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| Original Title: | Blackwood Farm |
| ISBN: | 0099446723 (ISBN13: 9780099446729) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Vampire Chronicles #9 |
| Characters: | Lestat de Lioncourt, Quinn Tyrrell, Mona Mayfair |
| Setting: | New Orleans, Louisiana(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 29866 Users | 738 ReviewsAssess Containing Books Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles #9)
This book...(sigh)...I have to say broke Anne Rice's spell over me. Before this book I found all of her normal plot devices (strange bedfellows, supernatural creatures, really long flashbacks, narcissism) beguiling and entertaining. But usually she chooses one or two of these things and shapes a really awesome story around it. In Blackwood Farm she just decided to take everything she had EVER written about, mix it up together, and then multiply it by 1000. I mean, really?! Vampires, witches, ANDEver since Memnoch the Devil, I've become disenchanted with Anne Rice, and I stopped reading her books after the dull Vampire Armand. But rave reviews of this one persuaded me to give it a try.Rice has regained the page-turning pace of her earlier novels. I was mesmerized by the main protagonist, Tarquinn Blackwood, and his story, and I had to restrain myself from finishing the book in one night. Unfortunately, the ending was a disappointment. The tense relationships that were cultivated during
I did it wrong, all wrong!This was the first Anne Rice book I read, not long after it came out. But part of the wonder that is Anne Rice, is that you can almost jump in on this series at any point and still be in for a rip-roaring and intense ride!There were some things I didn't quite get until I read the rest, like some of the smaller details, especially regarding Lestat. But after reading the rest of the series, I think this is one of the best. It's fresh and current and brings forht a whole
For the first quarter of this book, I couldn't understand where all of the negative reviews came from for this book. The only thing I could think was "maybe because it's not really a vampire story?" But then everything started to become a little clearer. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this book; much more than I thought I would and I did give it 4 stars after all! But I have to ask...what is it with Anne Rice having her characters in this series instantly fall in love? It seems like that
I liked the language but the story seemed slow to me. Pages and pages of nothing going on. I still feel like the places and people really exist somewhere, so that's a testament to the descriptive, detailed quality to Anne Rice's writing. Overall, I came away thinking that the entire book was just sort of boring. And the big reveal at the end was a bit lame. Or maybe it wasn't telegraphed as much as it seemed to be and the reason I saw through it so easily was because a very similar theme was
Blackwood Farm is the ninth book in The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. Interview with the Vampire introduced me to Anne Rice many years ago now, and I have been a fan of her work ever since. I think I have now read everything she has ever written, some several times over. Every so often I work my way through this series again and I found myself reading the Vampire Chronicles for about the fifth time, as a friend of mine who had never read any of Ms. Rices work asked me to buddy read them with
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