Resumo de Blood Canticle

Lestat, the irrepressible monster with a conscience is back. Our hero tells this latest chapter of the Vampire Chronicles in his own words - cockier, more arrogant and even more irresistible than he ever was before. After a break of what feels like eons when the telling of the Chronicles was passed to the fellow Blood Children in his know, Lestat blasts us back into our seats from the get go.

For those people who haven?t read any of the Vampire Chronicles please allow me to lay a brief outline. The Vampire Chronicles are a series of fictional (?) novels, supposedly real narratives passed to Anne Rice to inform the world about the true nature and habits of Vampires - they are also a baring of souls for the tormented beings that reside within the pages. They can be read as a series but can also be picked up at random as stand alone novels - Anne Rice, sorry, the Vampires, always give us a brief intro to the past Chronicles in all the books. However - I really would recommend reading from the start, as there is so much ingenious intricacy and history that you would miss out on if you didn?t.
Anne Rice ever so kindly starts her novels exactly where she left us. She picks us up off the floor, dusts us down while we are frantically rifling the back of the book looking for the chapters she surely missed and voila! Here they are in her new book.
And so with Blood Canticle, Lestat flawlessly takes over the story-telling from Quinn - the Vampire Master of Blackwood Farm, and draws us straight back to New Orleans, to Blackwood Farm, to the very day, the very hour where we were left one year ago.

Having performed ?The Dark Gift? on Mona, Quinn?s terminally ill beloved, Lestat finds himself besieged, bullied and tormented by a furious Julien. Outraged at the fact that his darling niece Mona is now a Vampire he throws the full weight of his wrath at the Devil responsible - no worries for an ancient old Vampire you might scoff - but wait. Julien just happens to be the all-powerful, all seeing, all mighty (very miffed) ghost of the legendary family of witches, The Mayfair's. (A whole other series of books begging to be read by moi.)

Finding himself in deeper shtook as he realises and revels in the magnetic love and growing desire between himself and the magnificent head of the Mayfair clan - Rowan Mayfair - Lestat decides to dig himself an even bigger hole. With the ever present Julien howling furiously at his heels Lestat promises both Rowan and Mona that he will find Morrigan, Mona?s demon (Taltos) daughter, making sure she is safe and not causing/plotting Armageddon for the entire human race or vice versa.
Torn between his desire for Rowan and his deep-rooted respect for her husband Michael. His fascination with the ghost Julien entwines with hatred and suspicion. His obsession with wanting to be loved the world over reaching Saint-like proportions you can but wonder whether the supernatural world has got it in for the Brat Prince of Darkness - however no one said that the undead was going to pull any punches. Boy, when they start ?em rolling the preternatural beings KEEP ?em rolling.

I was instantly hooked from page one. Though the writing style was different - edgy, angry even. I soon settled into it and realised that the previous novels had been in the words of the other Vampires and so of course it would make sense that the style was different too. Though there was no real history in this novel as there had been in other novels which had almost seemed like a travel through space and time - this was by no means any less magnificent. A lot of the book was given over to completely merging the Vampire Chronicles with the Mayfair Chronicles. So well in fact, that although I have not read the Mayfair novels I felt I knew the characters as intimately as I knew the Vampire characters. This didn?t detract from the story at all, so skilfully done I was actually quite surprised when I reached the end of the novel - it snuck up on me!

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