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Prince Lestat

Series: The Vampire Chronicles (#11)
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Year Published: 2014
ISBN: 978-0-307-96252-2
Pages: 458


From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire universe beginning with the now iconic Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, and The Queen of the Damned--a stunning departure, a surprising novel that deepens Rice's vampire mythology and gives us a chillingly hypnotic, rich mystery-thriller.

   In Prince Lestat, the long-awaited return to the all-encompassing realm of the Vampire Chronicles, Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit world of the oldest and most powerful forces between Heaven and Earth, including the indomitable and invisible Amel, whose thirst for human blood gave birth to the horror of the immortal Undead. Rice picks up where she left off more than a quarter of a century ago with the uniquely seductive The Queen of the Damned and The Vampire Lestat to create an extraordinary new sphere of spirits and forces--the characters, legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles.

   The novel opens with the vampire world in crisis... vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced across the globe, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned... Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth, are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto, and San Francisco.

   As the novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt, third-century Carthage, fourteenth-century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles--Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face is that of a Botticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet; Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia, along with all the other new, seductive supernatural creatures--come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who (or what) the Voice is, and to discover the secret of what is desires and why...

   And, at the book's center, the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer, the dangerous rebel-outlaw--the hope of the Undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat...


Precursor to the book: Blood Canticle (The Vampire Chronicles #10)
What to read next: Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (The Vampire Chronicles #12)

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