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Feb 18, 2008

Joey rated it:

As much of a die hard Anne Rice fan as I claim to be, I have yet to finish this book. Supposedly it's the last she'll ever write in her vampire series. I got about halfway through and wanted to throw the book across the room. It's like a different person is writing.. and it seems like Anne just doesn't care about this series or the vampire world anymore. Lestat saying the word 'dude' was pretty much the last straw. I'll come back to this book eventually, and I'll hopefully be less bitter the More...

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Feb 01, 2012

Bobby rated it:

Anne Rice has said this is the last of the Vampire Chronicles, I'm not sure if this is the last of the Mayfair Witches, but this review is written under the belief that Blood Canticle is the end of both. Anne Rice is my favorite author. The Witching Hour is my favorite book. As I reached the end of the chronicles and the time came to read Blood Canticle I didn't want to. I wanted to stay on those cracked humid sidewalks of the French Quarter and bask in the flickering light of the gaslamps. More...

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May 20, 2011

Cyndy rated it:

I swear, it isn't intentional. My recent reading of the Beauty trilogy coincidentally led up to picking up Blood Canticle on the bargain rack. I'm a long-time fan of The Vampire Chronicles as well as her tales of the Mayfair Witches, and my lust for this book, the one in which the two series merge, moved it to the top of my reading list.

Oh, the horror.

::: The Plot :::

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Anne Rice's novels, there are two major series: one about v More...

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Dec 03, 2010

Lisa rated it:

A welcome return to narration by the Brat Prince of the Vampire Chronicles, the most excellent Lestat, as through the friendship he struck up with Quinn Blackwood in the last entry, he gets entangled with the lives and fates of the Mayfairs.

The writing style has changed somewhat since the previous entries, and I must admit I found it more than a little incongruous at first to be hearing the ever articulate and flowery Lestat using words like yo, cool and dude (while flouncing around i More...

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Jul 09, 2010

Ali rated it:

Okay, I DID read this one. I know I did. I just can't for the life of me remember what it was about. Although knowing later Anne Rice, I am sure it contained a mixture of everything she could think of to create shock value, said mixture thrown against the wall, and Anne Rice just hoping that something would stick. I am just picturing her thought process while writing this: "Hmmm...now I have done vampires and witches together, and I have done vampires, witches, and ghosts together, wher More...

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Sep 06, 2010

Melissa rated it:

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Nov 22, 2009

Siobhan rated it:

After reading all of the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Trilogy, I couldn't let the series go unfinished, even though it took me years to get around to the final book. Based on reaction from others, I knew to expect very little from it, but even then the style of writing fell below my expectations. Though it's been years since reading the original (i.e. first three) books and all of the sequels, this was written like bad fanfic from an author who's only familiarity with the characters came from More...

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Aug 05, 2009

Mazel rated it:

Lestat, le plus puissant des vampires, vieux de deux siècles mais beau comme un dieu de vingt ans, Lestat le Magnifique ne veut plus incarner le mal.

Il veut faire le bien. Sauver des millions d'âmes. Renverser le cours de l'histoire.

Dans sa quête éperdue de rédemption, il est prêt à tout. Mais n'est pas saint qui veut.

Au domaine Blackwood, amis ou ennemis, des personnages mythiques s'agitent autour de lui : Mona Mayfair, devenue vampire malgré elle, le myst More...

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May 02, 2011

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Immediatamente prima dell'inizio di un concerto di una grande rockstar c'è un momento particolare e unico, che dà un brivido indescrivibile: le luci si abbassano in platea e sul palco, e qui resta solo un occhio di bue. Poi, dall'ombra inizia a distinguersi la sagoma della star, e la folla, prima di esplodere in un boato fragoroso, trattiene il respiro, non credendo ai propri occhi, pensando che quell'ombra è solo immaginazione. Come in questo attimo magico che precede il boato della folla, ho a More...

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Dec 16, 2009

M rated it:

I didn't get all up in arms about this book because I read the last three books in the Chronicles long after the brouhaha had died down, but I still have to nominate Mona Mayfair for most annoying book character of the past century. I didn't think this book was the worst thing ever written by Rice (see: Violin) but neither was it as good as the two that came right before it.

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Sep 09, 2010

Lisa rated it:

Ick. Way enough already. Can vampires be redeemed? Oh my god, if he asks this question one more time, just kill him for good and put him out of his angst. Is Anne putting a little too much of her own insecurity into her vampires?

Redeemed from what? Surviving on human blood? They are predators for crissakes, a different species. Can humans be redeemed for eating red meat? It's the blood of another species, after all. Get over it already. One book, was good. 2 or 3, and I still didn't More...

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Sep 21, 2010

Kristi rated it:

I rated this 3 stars, indicating that I liked it. That is a sad commentary, considering that this book culminates two of my favorite series of all time and was written by one of my favorite authors. It felt flip, like she just wanted to finish the thing ... which may be true. Rice was always open about the fact that her writing reflected her current spiritual journey. Perhaps this book was just a symbol of the fact that she was done with that particular season of her life. Lestat was different b More...

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Dec 06, 2009

Seraphitta rated it:

Honestly, never in a million years would I had ever imagined giving any of these books a 1 out of 5.

But Blood Canticle is like Anne Rice woke up one day, smelled the roses, opened the balcony doors to be greeted by the shouts of her adoring fans, and then proceeded to perch on the railing and shit on all of them. I'm talking diarreah, buddy.

Lestat is a pussy. No seriously, if you have one of those Edward vs. Lestat arguments, hide this and never use it in your arsenal. More...

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Sep 18, 2009

Jen rated it:

I've read this twice now. Contrary to popular opinion, I think it is very good. No, it's not her best work, but I love both the Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches, so this was a great crossover. Rice puts so much of herself into her novels and we see Lestat struggling with eternal philosophical questions and deep religious theological issues. This will turn off some readers, but for me it gave a very poetic and thoughtful picture of the supernatural. I'm sad to see my favorite vamp More...

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Oct 19, 2009

Monika rated it:

I haven't read Anne Rice since high school so when I saw this at a book sale, I picked it up. Reading this, I was wondering why I liked her so much back then. Although she has creative ideas, I felt like the writing just wasn't very sophisticated, for lack of a better description. I feel like she tries to hard to be hip and cool with the language and it just doesn't work. Lestat is quite conceited, what every great vampire should be, I guess, and she does this wonderfully. I also liked that the More...

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Jul 19, 2009

Ann rated it:

I almost gve this book a 10 rank because of the pure pleasure it gave me to read it, galloping through the pages in a couple of days, visiting with favorite characters, a few new tidbits revealed or reminded. The interaction between Lestat and the extended Mayfair clan was entertaining as Lestat's humor and "take" on things flavors this novel of an otherworldly family I have been facinated by ever since their introduction in 1990's The Witching Hour. Picking up where Blackwood Farm lef More...

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Aug 09, 2011

Aaron rated it:

The last book in the series... and maybe that was such a bad thing. I had read 14 other Anne Rice books in sequential order before reading this one, and I was ready for a break after this one. I was very, very excited about this book... but Lestat wasn't, well... he wasn't Lestat. It was as if Anne made him into something he wasn't. Supposedly a vampire "with the face of an angel, who talks like a gangster," or some kind of crap. Actually, he sounded like a fourteen year old, whic More...

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Aug 11, 2011

Jason rated it:

The final book in the Vampire Chronicles? With Anne's husband, Stan, passing on, and Anne writing about Jesus instead of gothic horror, this may just be the end. For a finale it came up short. We did see a few t's crossed and i's dotted, but it didn't come with a cliffhanging turn. The sereies seemed to peter out like a Model T running out of gas. Yes, the Mayfair family members came full circle, but not much else of significance occurred besides besides wrapping up the adventures of Blackw More...

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Aug 01, 2009

Jessica rated it:

Easily one of the single most awful books I've read. The writing was excruciating, the story ridiculous. This made me want to flee into the arms of Anne's earlier work, fold myself into the lush, lyrical writing of novels past, and dismiss this book and the one preceding it as cruel jokes; as nightmares; as phantoms I'd never need to acknowledge ever again. I'm very passionate about the fact that the end of this series is dead to me. I'd just as soon pretend trees had never been felled to print More...

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Sep 15, 2011

Sandy rated it:

Not liking it as much as previous. The beginning of the author's return to her Roman catholic roots and her current obsession with novelizing the life of Jesus is apparent here.

Finished a couple weeks ago now... Ultimately liked it other than the Lestat "voice" being more obnoxious than usual. I hope she finishes with Jesus and returns to tell the story of Rowan and Lestat some day before she dies. She *is* almost 70 and has had some rather serious health issues.
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Jan 28, 2011

Melanie rated it:

It took a solid 10 chapters for me to not despise Lestat's new voice/Anne Rice's colloquial, disjointed writing style. I completely understand what she we trying to do in showing the drastic change to his character after the traumatic entanglements of previous Chronicles. But, it was almost too much to stand until the plot really picked up. I did enjoy the story and Lestat did regain some of his insightfulness by the end. But I miss the lyrical, poetic descriptions and all that seemed forced, ob More...

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Jan 01, 2012

Peter rated it:

It was great to read an Anne Rice book that combined her two most popular series, the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches, in a story that was so full of motion. I've read many of her books, and as a fan even I have to admit that she can occasionally get bogged down in the detailed description of things (clothing, art, architecture, geography, etc). Not so with Blood Canticle. In this book, written through Lestat, the book has an energy and a feeling that the last several books in the More...

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Apr 07, 2010

Christine rated it:

I was happy to see that the book was in Lestat's point of view. I've missed him since the last book like this was Memnoch the Devil. It was great to be acquainted with him again. However, as much as I do not want to spoil the ending for other people, it was highly uneventful. I expected something better than what was written. I suppose knowing that Anne Rice said she will never write another Vampire Chronicle perhaps she is leaving the story open as we should never say never.

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Feb 25, 2009

Seklyan rated it:

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Jul 29, 2008

Rachel C rated it:

To call this book part of the "Vampire Chronicles" is a misnomer. From the get-go this book was not about vampires or the Vampire Lestat, which was what I expected given that Lestat was the narrator. It was sort of about his two new fledgling vampires, Quinn Blackwood and Mona Mayfair. However, I say "sort-of" because it mainly focused on spirits/ghosts, the Mayfair witches/mortals, and an alien species - The Taltos. There were entirely too many characters, both mortal an More...

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Jul 29, 2011

Debbie rated it:

I've been reading Anne Rice forever and her vampire chronicles are a fantastic set of books, but since she's "found God" her work has really deteriorated. This was painful to read, but since this was the last of the Lestat books, I had to finish. It was pretty awful, so I'm really happy she's done and that I don't have to read these anymore. If you want to read some good vampire fare, most of the early books are really good. (Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of More...

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Jul 20, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

This is the final installment in the Vampire Chronicles. It is tied for my favorite, along with Blackwood Farm . In Blood Canticle , Lestat struggles with an inner battle of good and evil and his love for Rowan Mayfair. The book also tells the tale of Quinn Blackwood heir to Blackwood Farm, and Mona Mayfair, who was on her deathbed in Blackwood Farm . This is the second Vampire Chronicles to intertwine Rice's Mayfair witches with the vampires. I am sad to see the Chronicles come to an en More...

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Oct 28, 2010

Troy rated it:

The peak of Anne Rice's breakdown - this is basically an excuse for long-atheist characters to pound their fists about religion, to ruminate on how the former, late Pope is doing, and generally a way to pretend that whatever random assortment of stuff she was thinking about/interested in during the few months she spent writing this made a story if all compressed together.

Famous for her getting on Amazon and blasting people who gave it a bad review.

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Oct 15, 2010

Desultoryd rated it:

I downloaded the whole vampire collection on audio book and I've spent the last two months listening to them all. I had read all the books up to the tale of the body thief, so I was really looking forward to the rest.

By the time I reached Blood and Gold, I was in awe of the world she'd woven around me and I was immersed in it totally. Then came this story...

ugh. talk about going out with a whimper.

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Sep 06, 2010

Jerome rated it:

I loved Blackwood Farm, but having now read the sequel, Blood Canticle, I feel cheated. Blood Canticle is disappointing. The story is loose, slow, unfocused. It feels like Rice has tried to tie up loose ends without being able to create a coherent story. At times, she seems to please herself with rantings that give the novel little direction. Read it if you must, but don't expect too much of this one.

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