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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#12)
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Year Published: 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5247-3253-0
Pages: 451


From Anne Rice, conjurer of beloved best-selling metaphysical tales, creator of mythologies and mystical ancient histories--an ambitious and rich new vampire novel of utopian vision, daring, and power.

   At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange other-wordly form that has somehow taken possession of his undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe.

   It is through this spirit, considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times: a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent--and of how and why, and in what manner and with what far-reaching purpose, this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean.

   And as we are taken on an electrifying journey through this golden civilization and see its ways and customs, its fantastical advancements and purity of vision, we come to understand its brief flash of possibility as we bear witness to its sudden, catastrophic end, like a flare from the guttering of a dying candle, a volcanic perishing that takes place within a day and a night, a breaking apart of this mighty empire into darkness and molten gold, expelling all into the sea, leaving in its wake underwater ruins throughout the world.

   And as we learn of the mighty, resonant powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.

   An exhilarating novel that deepens Rice's vampire mythology as it brings together the ancient worlds and beings of the Vampire Chronicles and opens up to us a whole new universe of characters, history, storytelling, and legend.


Precursor to the book: Prince Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles #11)
What to read next: Blood Communion (The Vampire Chronicles #13)

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