Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat

by Anne Rice Narrated by Eric Shaw Quinn

Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ¿ In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, telling us the mesmerizing story of how he became prince of the vampire world, and of the formation of the Blood Communion, and how his vision for the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be.

Lestat takes us from his ancestral castle in the snow-covered mountains of France to the verdant wilds of lush Louisiana, with its lingering fragrances of magnolias and night jasmine; from the far reaches of the Pacific's untouched islands to the 18th-century city of St. Petersburg and the court of the Empress Catherine. He speaks of his fierce battle of wits and words with the mysterious Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the Millennia, reviled outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary ancient vampire Maharet, avowed enemy of Queen Akasha, who refuses to live in harmony at court and who threatens all Lestat has dreamt of....

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Praise for Anne Rice and The Vampire Chronicles:

“[Rice’s] undead characters are utterly alive.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“No one writing today matches [Anne Rice's] deftness with the erotic.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 
“Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.” —San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Fans old and new will find this book an effusive celebration of a saga now more than forty years in the making.” —Publishers Weekly

“Bloody marvelous.” —Time

“Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt.” —BookPage
 
“Immense and rich.” —Elle

“Anne Rice is the queen of sexy vampire fiction.” —Cosmopolitan

“Lestat is . . . an engaging character who manages to live up to his own hype.” —The Boston Globe

“Popular fiction of the highest order.” —USA Today

Kirkus Reviews

2018-08-21

Of crunching bones, collapsing veins, and nicely coordinated outfits: Rice's Vampire Chronicles gets a fresh transfusion.

Alas, poor Rhoshamandes: He was about the only character to breathe any new life, so to speak, into Rice's pallid vamp saga thanks to some stately if gory moments in Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (2016). And now—well, like the series, old Rosh has seen better days. Meanwhile, the longtime ringmaster of the sharp-toothed show, Lestat, is consolidating his power while taking an increasingly evident interest in aesthetics that, in lesser hands, would likely translate into a barrage of product placement. As it is, a few brand names slip through: Wouldn't you just know it that a vampire wouldn't be seen dead with an Android? It's not just that, as Lestat observes, "Almost all vampires are beautiful," but that the good stuff gets called out, from "English Chippendale chairs" to "rubies, emeralds, diamonds, sapphires everywhere that one looked, or ropes of pearls and barrettes and pins of gold and silver." And why so much attention to the things of the world? Perhaps because, as it seems, Lestat doesn't have much to occupy himself with apart from a literal rock-star moment and all that politicking with Rhoshamandes, who, it has to be said, had more than a shot or two at making things good with Lestat and company. The story takes some time to gather momentum, a shame for a book that's so short, especially as compared to others in the series. Still, while most of the proceedings seem a familiar footnote to the larger series as it's unfolded over the decades, there are some nicely icky passages that would give Stephen King pause: "I threw the headless body onto the coverlet, tossed the smashed and empty head on top of the body, then gathered up even the heart and what I'd vomited of the brain and the eyes, and flung them all together…."

Just the bucket of blood for die-hard Rice fans.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169471687
Publisher:	Penguin Random House
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Series:	The Vampire Chronicles Series
Edition description:	Unabridged

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