Everything Anne Rice and her fans have come to love collides and entangles here: music and blood, witches and vampires, fire and ice, materialism and spirituality, poverty and opulence, the saint and the sinner. She tells her tale through the human, undead, ethereal, cartilaginous and all their existing combinations, sizes, shapes and facets of beauty.
Lestat’s self mockery is in high gear. He wants it all. He tells it all. He weaves an ever tighter web of relationships through a tangle of emotions, swamp grasses and an abundance of flowers against the backdrop of Blackwood farm, New Orleans, a Caribbean island hide-away. The dark trick creates a dashing and turbulent new-generation pair, Rowan comes down from her ivory tower to be human, to be a witch, to reach out towards new dimensions.
For the Anne Rice buff, there’s quite a bit of revising to do before the pace picks up and charges through to the very last page. A wonderful love story that will touch both the older and younger generations and a very enjoyable read.