Rice, Anne

• Series: The Vampire Chronicles
  • Interview with the Vampire (8 r)
  • The Vampire Lestat (7 r)
  • Queen of the Damned (6 r)
  • The Mummy (6 r)

    • The first two books of this famous series are truly wonderful. Gothic romance combined with an interesting look into the nuts and bolts of life as a vampire. Rice has a unique and very interesting writing style that makes these books worth a look. The later books start to broaden the picture somewhat into a grand history of vampirism, and the increased scope makes the books suffer. Buy the first two, and if you like them, buy one more at a time until it starts to wear.

• The Feast of All Saints (5 r)

  • Readable but slow-moving story of a young "quadroon" (mixed race...half-colored mother, white father) who almost passes for white in 19th century New Orleans. The book is worth reading more for the historical picture of life in New Orleans than for the plot.

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