Servant of the Bones and The Feast of All Saints

by Anne Rice

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal, Vampires

640 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) was a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematic focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

Anne Rice passed on December 11, 2021 due to complications from a stroke. She was eighty years old at the time of her death.

She uses the pseudonym Anne Rampling for adult-themed fiction (i.e., erotica) and A.N. Roquelaure for fiction featuring sexually explicit sado-masochism.

Reviews

[Glenys · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a two-book anthology, making it a good long read and showcasing Anne Rice's talents in two different genres -- supernatural fantasy and historical fiction. I enjoyed them both; she is a gifted natural storyteller and I have eclectic tastes.
The Servant of the Bones is a good page-turning story of a beautiful young man in Ancient Babylon who by traumatic magic is rendered immortal with superhuman powers. Over the centuries he is trapped in obedience to human masters as a genie, but breaks free and starts to use his powers for good, regaining his soul. An exciting and satisfying moral tale with Anne Rice's trademark empathy for eldrich creatures and high-octane imaginative powers.
The second is a long but engaging story of the 'gens de coleur libre' in antebellum New Orleans; a rich and eventually heartrending tale with characters so well drawn they feel as real to me as people I know, inhabiting a detailed and utterly convincing world of black slaves, white plantation owners, poor American-Irish whites and the free but disenfranchised society of people of mixed heritage. Even the words - mulatto, quadroon - give a slight shock of a completely alien world, exotic, alluring, at times cruel but with all the realistic moral ambiguities of injustice in an interdependent society. Excellent.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Stars

Servant of the Bones and The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice.
Interview with the Vampire introduced me to Anne Rice many, many years ago now, and I have been a fan of her work, and vampires, ever since. I think I have now read everything she has ever written, some several times over. Every so often I work my way through her books again and as a friend of mine who had never read any of Ms. Rice’s work asked me to ‘buddy read’ them with her, I took the opportunity to dive in again.
It was a fun way to read this great series, because I had someone to discuss each book with as we finished. We have decided not to stop at just this series, but to read everything she’s written, together.
I can’t believe I had never left a review for any of these books before, but sometimes I get so caught up in reading that I forget that I have yet to post a review. My reading challenge reviews were down about 150 or so last year because I would get so caught up in the books, that I would forget to leave a review, especially when reading a whole series back-to-back. So, this year I am determined to leave a review for every book I read.
I adore Ms. Rice’s work, she writes so passionately and has a rich, vividly descriptive and detailed style that really lends itself to her Gothic fantasies. The stories are woven so well, I am not merely reading them, but experiencing them in exquisite detail. The historical elements that are sprinkled through her books are so cleverly done, and given her own unique twist.
If you have never read any of her work before, I really recommend that you do, as Ms. Rice limitless imagination and spellbinding storytelling abilities ensure a spellbinding read.
Happy Reading...

[Book.Ish.Shawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anne for as much as she was griot. She was historian. She was so loyal to New Orleans and it's culture. To her Irish Catholic roots and their tentacles in the framework of old New Orleans and New. This work in particular reminds me why I was drawn to Sherrilyn Kenyon's work and definitely why I continue my love affair with Barbra Hambly's Benjamin January series. The Creole of New Orleans speaks to it's descendants and finds the blood of the African whom the city was built by. On whose bones all folklore gumbo surrounding that city is built. There is no New Orleans without the African or the French or Irish.

[Dottie Suggs · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book hooked me as an Anne Rice fan

[Bertabooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

La trama es interesante, aunque creo que a ratos se pierde el encanto de las primeras novelas

[Tammi High · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book.

[Mario Andres Solano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Deeply captivating narrative that takes us from modern era to the depths of time during the beginning of civilization in a fantastical story of spirits and fate.