150,000 first printing: Literary Guild main selection. She regains her verve in the final chapter, however, promising yet another mesmerizing installment of the Vampire Chronicles.
Though she ingeniously pulls together the various plot strands, Rice then almost loses the reader in philosophic overkill. My book remains-along with Interview with the Vampire-safely disguised as. As Rice gradually reveals the significance of the dream, she also focuses on Jesse, who works for the Telamasca, a secret society that collects data on those with paranormal powers. The Vampire Chronicles Volume 3 QUEEN of the DAMNED Anne Rice 1 Prologue Im. Meanwhile, vampires and psychic humans around the globe are having the same terrifying dream in which twin red-haired women weep over the body of another woman, whose eyes and brains are on a plate nearby. She immediately begins a wholesale slaughter of most of the world's vampires, sparing only a small remnant (including Lestat) who she expects will join her in a crazed crusade against male mortals.
Lestat's kiss has awakened Queen Akasha from her 6000 year sleep. Here Lestat and all other vampires pay the price for his obsessive need for fame, his reckless honesty in describing the ``blood drinkers'' among us, and his frenzied rock concert in San Francisco. As before, Rice tells her story in fine melodramatic style, overwriting with zest and exuberance: the text pulses with menace, mystery and violence, and with sensuality verging on erotica.
The cult audience for Rice's two previous vampire novels, Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat, will undoubtedly broaden with this third book, which features the same characters and a more complex plot.
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