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| Original Title: | Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius |
| ISBN: | 0099271494 (ISBN13: 9780099271499) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Vampire Chronicles #8 |
| Characters: | Thorne, Akasha, Enkil, Mael, Khayman, Marius de Romanus, Daniel Molloy, Bianca Solderini, Santino, Armand, Pandora |
Anne Rice
Paperback | Pages: 752 pages Rating: 3.9 | 31505 Users | 651 Reviews
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| Title | : | Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles #8) |
| Author | : | Anne Rice |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 752 pages |
| Published | : | November 7th 2002 by Arrow (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Paranormal. Vampires. Horror. Fantasy. Fiction |
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Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his 'maker', the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and the boy he calls Amadeo (otherwise known as the Vampire Armand). Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice's glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept' is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.Rating Out Of Books Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles #8)
Ratings: 3.9 From 31505 Users | 651 ReviewsJudgment Out Of Books Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles #8)
I've read all the books beginning from the Vampire Lestat which is my favorite of the lot so far. But anyway, having read them, I kind of knew what to expect from this one but seriously, I think it's getting worse..The ending felt like, "oh yeah I forgot, I have to connect the story back to the present so lemme stretch the story a bit here, add a confounding element there and... voila! That's it. Thanks for taking time to read!" I mean come on... this was Marius... Marius. One of the moreCrap. I will never understand why Anne Rice, with all her years of writing experience, still has no idea how to drive a plot. This is essentially how this book works, and it holds true for most of her books:Character #1: Hi, I'm terribly interesting.Character #2: Wow, you're terribly interesting. Tell me your life story. Character #1: Okay. Let me tell you about how I met Character #3.Character #3: Hi, I'm terribly interesting.Character #1: Wow, you're terribly interesting. Tell me your life
The first Anne Rice book I read was The Mummy or Ramses the Damned. I was in the 8th grade. I loved it, and tried to read Interview with the Vampire but never finished it.Almost five years later, I was in Sestriere, Italy, a small mountain town outside of Torino, near the French and Swiss borders. I was there for almost a week, and it was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been in my entire life. I could spend hundreds of words describing it all, but I'm getting off track. It was the
I love a story - a good story. I read to escape, yes but even then, even when I pick up a book with the intention of running away I end up, well thinking about the book. I read to study, relate to or learn from characters, story lines plots, drama. I dont read to just read, make my chalk mark and on to the next book. I enjoy books that I can savor take my time over, and I truly love sharing the reading experience so when someone mentions a book they love, Im apt to pick it up. And so I didDid
This book though...So apparently, the whole 'Vampire Chronicles' series goes backwards from the first book being last and so on, if I understood correctly and this entry is about Marius and Pandora, how they fell in love and Thorne also and some other vampires. The story was too long and had too many characters and too many plotlines. I got tired of it and got lost in it. I like Anne Rice's writing very much but this was a downfall...
Another book-end story by Rice and no surprises. I'm determined to finish the series, but it is getting tedious. While this book seemed to have an easier prose than most of the Chronicle books (Body Thief aside), the lack of plot or tension or drama or really anything going on kept this book from a higher rating. That said, and despite all that said, it was a page turner. Rice's prose in this volume is engaging and forward driven. While not much is actually going on, I was interested in what
This book is a prime example of why I don't put too much stock into reviews of people that I don't know and/or at least trust their opinion on books because a lot reviews said this book was bad and I couldn't disagree more. I loved this entry in the series! Marius' story is so rich, deep, sad and made for a very entertaining read that further added to Rice's remarkable Vampire Chronicles series.
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