Anne Rice - Blackwood Farm: The Vampire Chronicles

Pros: It does have a plot to it...
Cons: It's an annoying plot.

I'm pleading with all of my fellow epinionators to please help me find a way to banish any future Anne Rice books from ever reaching my hands again. Exorcise her from my life, end my misery and disappointment with each novel that I read. Send me to...

Pros: Rice is a prose stylist; Lestat returns; the final twist
Cons: A tad slow and overly talky at times

For many years now, Anne Rice has been my favorite author. Note that I say favorite, not best. Although I love her tales of vampires, witches, and S & M, she is not what you would call a woman of high literary merit. That is not to say she has no talen ...

Pros: A super book that held me tight
Cons: None

Tarquinn Blackwood has recently been turned into a blood hunter by an unknown old blood hunter that was missed by the Queen's killing of Vampires in the "Queen of the Dammed" ( the book where Lestat becomes a rockstar and calls for all vampires to ...

Pros: New storyline to the Vampire chronicles.
Cons: Too much vampire love mixed in with Mayfair witchery.

Now I've been an Anne Rice fan for quite some time. I've read all of her books and was glad to see her writing each Vampires tale in her Vampire Chronicles. But the storylines of her other novels are intertwining too much and again there's just too much...

Pros: Loved it.
Cons: Ended to quickly...but left the door open for another journey with Quinn and Mona.

I've been waiting for Anne to combine her Mayfairs Witches stories with here Vampire Chronicles, and she does so wonderfully in Blackwood Farm. She has touched on this blending so often in the past, but really solidified the union with the end of...

Pros: Another interesting vampire
Cons: predictable

Anne Rice simply does not disappoint with this novel. The story is about a young Louisiana man ...

Pros: Very interesting characters, immense and beautiful scenery descriptions, very twisted ending
Cons: Seems to drag on in some spots you get tired of certain characters very quickly.

Blackwood Farm is a good book for those who have read ALL of the previous Anne Rice Vampire and Witch novels. This book brings them both together in one story and we are introduced to a new character named Tarquin Blackwood and his evil doppelganger known only as Goblin. This story takes several bizzarre turns in it and while Tarquin is very intruiging at first, we then see that he changes into a very dull character throughout the novel when we are once again under the spell of Lestat, who makes this novel worthwhile. For those who have read all of the previous novels and want a combination of the Mayfair Witches and The Vampire Chronicles, then try it out. However, if you have just read Interview With A Vampire and The Vampire Lestat for example, I wouldn't bother with it, because while this is a good book, it certainly isn't her best by far.