Blood Canticle: The Vampire Chronicles

Anne Rice

Oct 2003 · Vampire Chronicles Book 10 · Sold by Ballantine Books

About this ebook

Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rice’s bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between death’s shadow and immortality. . . .

Surrounded by its brooding swampscape, Blackwood Farm is alive with the comings and goings of the bewitched and the bewitching. Among them is the ageless vampire Lestat, vainglorious enough to believe that he can become a saint, weak enough to fall impossibly in love.

Gripped by his unspeakable desire for the mortal Rowan Mayfair and taking the not so innocent, new-to-the-blood Mona Mayfair under his wing, Lestat braves the wrath of paterfamilias Julien Mayfair and ventures to a private island off the coast of Haiti. There, Saint Lestat will get his chance to slay his dragon. For Mona and the Mayfairs share an explosive, secret blood bond to another deathless species: a five-thousand-year-old race of Taltos, strangers held in the throes of evil itself.

Ratings and reviews

ten years to finish. It was anti-climatic, the book tied up the story but it lacked soul. It seems rice may have felt the same way writing it as I do reading it, I did not want to begin this book because I knew it was the last. The story was not engrossing as her previous works. Of course I love lestast and the Mayfair's but this was not the ending these great characters deserved... and I hope it isn't...

Not her best but with Anne rice thats still head and shoulders above most. Can't wait for the newest lestat book "Prince Lestat"

I thought Marius made Lestat...in the queen of the dammed that's how its told. I'm a little confused about that but other wise 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.