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Laddar... Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018)av Anne Rice
   Books Read in 2018 (1,932) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Pure guilty pleasure. Not the best vampire book from Rice, but there were still Lestat, Armand, Marius, and even Louis got a line or two. It was fun to dip into this world again. (  ) BonBonVivant | Jan 18, 2023 |  Meh. I think I may have outgrown Lestat... (  ) Carmentalie | Jun 4, 2022 | pb 5083mitzi | Jan 1, 2022 | This is a big nothing of a book. While the last couple books were weird and tone-deaf as hell, a lot more happened. The first 25% of the book is largely a vague and repetitive retelling of the previous few books. For someone who has read the series, this is a waste of time. For those who are jumping in at book 13 for some obtuse reason, these summaries are so vague and disorganized that they would be of no help. Lestat is made prince of the vampires for reasons that aren't well-explained. Despite being prince, he has no actual authority or input - he's easily coerced into doing whatever the current petitioner wants him to do, and in the rare cases when he does object to something, he's roundly ignored and the others do whatever the hell they want anyway. He also seems to have only two settings: loving everything and everyone, or feeling absolutely nothing. It just doesn't feel like Lestat anymore - for Gods' sake, he was a rebel! And now he's enforcing a monarchy. The lush descriptions from previous books rarely raise their head in this one, but when they do, its the same description of the same types of fashion over and over. There are only so many ways one can describe velvet, lace, and brocade. The Gothic tone of the earlier books is largely gone - there are a few haunting descriptions of torture/violence that are effective in the middle of the book, but for the most part it reads closer to wish-fulfillment fanfiction. The character's voices are largely interchangeable (and some, like Pandora, lose all their earlier characterization), and with a cast that continues to grow unabated, what is intended as a rich tapestry of individuals becomes more of a muddled, shifting crowd. The story is terribly paced, starting just before the middle of the book and ending about 2/3s of the way through. Before that we just have endless rehashing and circular conversations lifted nearly verbatim from the previous book. After that we have...endless rehashing of the events that just occurred, and circular conversations lifted from the previous books. Anne retcons her own mythos a bit by stating vampires  ) kaitlynn_g | Dec 13, 2020 |  buffygurl | Mar 8, 2019 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the mesmerizing story of the formation of the Blood Communion and how he became Prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast realm, and how his vision for all the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be. The tale spills from Lestat's heart, as he speaks first of his new existence as reigning monarch--and then 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; Rhoshamandes, a demon spirit who refuses to live in harmony at the Court of Prince Lestat and threatens all that Lestat has dreamt of. As the tale unfolds, Lestat takes us from the towers and battlements of 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 . . . Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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