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Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.Look for Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis. Read more
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Wow! I was literally swept off my feet in this entrancing tale. This is Anne Rice at her best. This novel has it all, Romance, Intrigue, and Drama. But best of all, it has History. Oh, how I love history. From Ancient Egypt, to the Roman Empires and Greek Mythology. It is just beautiful. Anne Rice is a great Historical storyteller. She obviously does meticulous research, and she takes her knowledge and spins a mesmerizing tale of olden times, when people lived life, just for the sake of living. She writes of an era, when time was abundant. And it was spent with families and close friends, reading, writing and gaining insight into their life. Expanding their minds with philosophy and poetry and just about anything that was within their grasp. When time really did take a lifetime, and it was savored with all its beauty. Unlike now, with time passing by, faster than we can blink. This is not another novel of a Vampire in Rices collection,this is the story of Pandora. A woman whose mind rivaled that of a scholar, her thirst for knowledge and the meaning of what it is to exist, her main quest in this life. She is a woman who is betrayed, but that will not stop her. She embraces her induction into vampire hood, because this way, she can savor her love of life and feel it all the more. This is an exceptional book. My only regret is that it ends too soon. I would have gladly lived with Pandora for a thousand more pages.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2000 by Loki Shams
I hope we get to see Marius and Pandora’s story come to life on IWTV series. It was refreshing getting a story from the female vampire’s POV. The story continuously flowed of her life in Rome as a Senator’s daughter to her time in Antioch, meeting with the ancient ones to her reuniting with Marius. Good fast read and shorter story in the extended vampire chronicles.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2024 by MMK
I wasn't really all that familiar with Anne Rice except through the Mayfair series (Blood Canticle, for me, was part 4 of the Mayfair Witch series, though I knew of Lestat from the movies). This was given to me as a gift when it first came out. I liked it. That whole Taltos thing was a bit Lovecraftian in the way Anne told this. A big Rice fan liked my novel, "Other Nations", and said that if Anne had written my novel, it would have been 6 books and not 6 chapters :) Ok. Now that I've read more Anne, maybe my novel would have been 10 books in her hands :) At least I can see what this fan meant. I didn't quite see that when I only read the Mayfair/Taltos stories. I see it with the Vampire stuff, definitely. Anne is also telling it from the other side, not the human side. I did the same in my novel - from the non-human side, not the same old "good versus evil" stuff. I like sci fi, and TV shows about Vampires are, for me, sci fi of a sort. Very recently, another Rice fan said "read Blood and Gold" and so, I tried it and LOVED LOVED LOVED it. After I read it, I checked the reviews. Negative reviews said that B and G was like rereading the first 3 books of the vampire series. Well, that was good for me. I didn't read the first 3 books! (heh, not YET...) Next, I tried the Vampire Armand - and well, I thought it sucked - no other way to put it. Starts out with pages upon pages of gay light-porn and then hops skips jumps into something a bit more interesting, but not very well told by Armand. Perhaps that's because Armand is quite frankly nuts. And no, it's not that I didn't know what was going on - Armand is nuts; he is a bundle of mixed up confusion with all that ugliness in his childhood, "fool for God," monkish lunacy. It's very easy for me to pick up what's going on, even reading these books out of order. Glad I didn't read Armand first. SO glad I did not read that one first. And oh, phphph the Appassionata. The Pathetique is much nicer a piece! (Beethoven). Pandora is the book I just finished. LOVED it, absolutely LOVED it, LOVED the whole detailed story about her life as a Roman girl - ALL of it. And the same sense of absolute tragedy, grief, hit me about the lost letter, the letter Marius only found hundreds of years later. Oh GOD that was so so sad, two times around, just as sad. I gave this a 4 for one reason. It's WAY too short. WHAT HAPPENS after Pandora realizes Marius is gone? I know about Dresden because I first read Blood and Gold, but Pandora is over 2000 years old! Her "wasted days" as she puts it to David without elaborating, are days that readers would definitely want to know about. How about TELLING US? How did she meet the fierce Asian vampire Arjun (I know his name is Arjun because I read it in Blood and Gold). Pandora didn't name him in her own narrative. This novel should have been FIVE TIMES larger than it was. At least! My next book, I got it from the library (I'm not a rich person...) is "The Vampire Lestat." "Interview" was out. I'll either end up reading Interview next, or Merrick - though I'd like to know the details about Claudia before reading Merrick. I know of Claudia from the movie and from what the novels I read have said. It's REALLY too bad Anne is no longer writing this. If this were the Lovecraftian genre, someone ELSE would be able to pick up the story of Pandora - and perhaps even get REALLY far out with what happened to the twins in SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS time - and there'd be no copyright problems with it, since it's allowed in that genre! The tale would start off at the point the twins are separated, a short paraphrase of their known history as per the canon. A Pandora book starting where Marius and Pandora are separated. They'd both end at the point where Anne wrote of them meeting up with others again. Perhaps Anne would allow someone else to tell the rest of Pandora's story? And/or tell us the story of the twins? They'd only have to write stuff that nobody else ever read about anywhere else - and not have it collide with what's already known. I want to say something to critics that go on about Anne contradictioning herself. NO, ANNE is not doing that. Louis might contradict Lestat. Marius contradicts Pandora - Pandora addresses that! Armand might think Marius was the love of his life (so some fans thought that was "The Story"), but that is NOT what Marius feels or thinks. Marius says Pandora was THE love of his life. Critics went on about "why Anne changed it." Changed what? I don't think Anne is forgetting what "she said" elsewhere or backpeddling, or changing her mind about what she wrote. These are supposed to be books written by Lestat, Louis, Pandora, Marius, etc. The techique is called "unreliable narrator." These characters all have different voices - their narratives, so far, read to me as if different people wrote them (yet I know Anne wrote these books). Therefore, my not liking Armand's story is not a statement about Anne. It's a statement about Armand. When you read Pandora, you are not supposed to think "Anne said this, Anne said that, Anne is saying this now." No. PANDORA is speaking. Anyway, I surely hope The Vampire Lestat is more like Pandora and Blood and Gold than like the Armand book. OH PLEASE!!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2009 by T. Marsh
This is, by far, one of my favorite books by the late (and trust me, mourned) Anne Rice. I read it very early in life after shooting through another handful of her books. I always recommend Anne Rice's books to friends. I love all of her work and plan to get a copy of every novel on my kindle. You should also try her son Christopher Rice's books by the way. He definitely got her amazing gifts of fluid, and amazingly detailed descriptive writing. I'm loving the wonderful books he and Anne wrote together. Please read both of their books. You will never be disappointed!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2022 by Julie_Beth_580
I love Anne Rice, so don't get me wrong, but this was not her best story. It starts out a bit scatter brained on Pandora's part so I found it a little hard to follow until it really got into the story. I guess I was just expecting to read about happenings between Pandora and Marius, or Pandora and her Asian vampire that she spent a great deal of time with, but there isn't any of that really. You are basically reading a few new things from Pandora's point of view during Roman times; it doesn't go past that age much. I still liked it because it was Anne Rice, but it was definitely not my favorite of her work. It's a short story so it's not like it will be a complete waste of your time if you like Anne Rice.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2009 by Christina C.
It's an Anne Rice book. I love Anne Rice. I have yet to read anything that she had written that I didn't absolutely adore.
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2024 by Merryann Palmer
Shes done it again. It’s complete in all of the important ways and deficient in none of them. It was difficult to put it down once i found myself involved. A nice read
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024 by tireiron
I’ve read many Anne Rice books and have found that it is often hit or miss with her books. I loved the Witches, most of the vampire books, hated Violin, liked the Christ books, and sort of liked this one? I honestly got bored of Pandora’s visions and endless rumination in Antioch and skipped ahead to the change. It picked up a bit from there but I never did get invested in Pandora and realized that I didn’t even have an image of her in my mind which is a bad sign. Was she ever described other than possibly having blonde hair, maybe?
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Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2024 by Susan Gurley