Blood Communion, Anne Rice
Blood Communion, Anne Rice
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Blood Communion
A Tale of Prince Lestat

Bestseller

Author: Anne Rice

Narrator: Eric Shaw Quinn

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2018


Synopsis

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....

About Anne Rice

It seems pretty ironic for an author to change from Gothic fiction, erotica, then to Christian literature, but American author, Anne Rice did just that. She was born Howard Allen Frances O'Brian in 1941 in New Orleans. Somehow, being born in New Orleans seems fitting for an author most famous for her popular series of novels entitled, The Vampire Chronicles.

Rice was raised in a Catholic family, but chose to be an agnostic as a young adult. She was very successful coming right out with her first novel......Interview with the Vampire. With that success, she began writing sequels to that novel in the 1980's. In the mid- 2000's, she returned to Catholicism and published novels that were fiction about some happenings in the life of Jesus. She distanced herself several years later from organized religion, siting disagreement with their position on social issues, but vowed her lasting faith in God.

Rice's books have sold over 100 million copies......thus, her immense popularity as an American author. She was married to her husband, Stan Rice, for 41 years until he passed from brain cancer in 2002. They had two children, one who died of leukemia at fie years old, and a son Christopher, who is also an author. Several of her novels have been adapted to film. Many ask about her strange given name...... Howard Allen Frances O'Brien. She answers with......her father's name was Howard, and her mother thought that giving her a man's name would give her advantages in the world as she grew up. On her first day of Catholic School, when the Nun asked her name, she just said Anne because she thought it was a pretty name. The name has served her well.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tammy on November 15, 2018

Lacking that certain bite, the Brat Prince is back. The Vampire Chronicles are becoming a bit long in the tooth to be truly entertaining.......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on April 26, 2020

Indeed, it's right there on the cover, "A tale of Prince Lestat." Yeah, the whole vampire kingdom faces annihilation again (which makes me recall the fabulous Chronicle "Queen of the Damned") and we revisit the coterie that we've come to love (and almost forget). And the entire thing is an encyclope......more

Goodreads review by Erin on October 21, 2018

Anne Rice is back with “Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat”, her most recent novel in the Vampire Lestat series. As a huge fan of Anne Rice andthe Vampire prince, I have been awaiting this novel for months, and of course, as usual, I was not disappointed. Lestat is now the reigning prince of......more

Goodreads review by Elise on October 04, 2018

2.5 stars It was better than Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis but it still wasn't good. I genuinely hope that this is the last book in the chronicles because Anne has clearly run out of ideas, and it's time that she just quits, you can't continue forever you know... This book basically has the......more

Goodreads review by Chandra on September 04, 2018

It's been a LONG time since I've read Anne Rice. Years... decades even! I've always been a fan so was excited to get my hands on her latest, Blood Communion. At less than 300 pages, this is considerably shorter than most of her books so was a quick read. The first few chapters summarizes what you ma......more


Quotes

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