Blood and Gold

Anne Rice

Oct 2001 · Vampire Chronicles Book 8 · Sold by Ballantine Books

About this ebook

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Vampire Chronicles continue as the great vampire Marius returns.

The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-
mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence.

Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, kidnapped and made a “blood god” by the Druids, Marius becomes the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the core of the supernatural race resides.

We follow him through his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. Through him we see the fall of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the horrific sack of the Eternal City itself at the hands of the Visigoths.

Bravely, Marius seeks a new civilization in the midst of glittering Constantinople, only to meet with the blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him ultimately returning to his beloved Italy, where after the horrors of the Black Death, he is restored by the beauty of the Renaissance. We see him become a painter living dangerously
yet happily among mortals, giving his heart to the great Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious young apprentice Armand.

Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English castle of the secret scholarly order of the Talamasca, the novel reaches its dramatic finale in our own time, deep in the jungle where Marius, having told his life story, seeks some measure of justice from the oldest vampires in the world.

Ratings and reviews

I bought this book 6 months ago on the playstore an it saved my purchase and the spot i left off on that long ago. Its a great purchase, the only down side is its easy to flip pages on accident and lose your place.

This is the book introduced me to Anne Rice and her Vampire Chronicles. I fell deeply in love with the characters. And although the story spans through the history of the world, it is organic. I highly recommend looking into the Mayfair Witches, Christ the Lord, and under her sur name A.N. Raquelaure- Beauty's Punishment (erotic trilogy).

like always her words entice me to want to know more about the history of the time she writes about. I feel the characters as she has them speak and they become real to me while I read the books. Very Very good book!

About the author

Anne Rice is the author of thirty-seven books, including the Vampire Chronicles, the Lives of the Mayfair Witches, and the Wolf Gift book series. Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 and grew up there and in Texas. She lived in San Francisco with her husband, the poet and painter, Stan Rice until 1988, when they returned to New Orleans to live with their son, Christopher. In 2006, Rice moved to Rancho Mirage, California. She died in 2021.