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Blood Communion

A Tale of Prince Lestat

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Blood Communion

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Eric Shaw Quinn
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 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.... Fantasy Horror Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Scary Paranormal Fiction Exciting Royalty

Critic Reviews

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
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Another excellent and entertaining story about the Vampires and their world from the author Anne Rice

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A great book which was ruined by Eric Shaw Quinn’s narration. His pronunciation I found bizarre, he seeming deliberately pronounces characters names and french words incorrectly just often enough to be annoying. Places the emphasis on the wrong part of the sentence and doesn’t emote well at all. Please get Simon Vance back to redo this book. His reading of the rest of the series was superb.

Didn’t like the voice actor.

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After the last 2 books this was hard to listen to.
I'm not sure what a great ending to these chronicles would be but the ending is...satisfying.

Voice acting disappointing

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Loved the story as always with the Vampire Chronicles. Unfortunately, the narrator was a huge let down, especially after listening to the earlier books in the series.

Would love to listen again with another narrator.

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Was pleasantly impressed. Best book in the chronicles since Blackwood farm. Still a few missed opportunities that could have really nailed it. Last few chapters were a bit slow, but that could have been as a result of how much I enjoyed the rest of it. Again, new characters were introduced, rather thought some old sidelined characters could have been utilised it in their place.

Much better

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