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The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which 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 intimate voice the secrets of his 2,000-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.
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Average Customer Review: 3.94 of 5
Publisher: Random House AudioBooks
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Audio Length: 18 hours 45 min.
Other audio books by Anne Rice:
Blackwood Farm (Unabridged)
Blood Canticle
Blood Canticle (Unabridged)
Cry to Heaven
Interview with Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire
Lasher
Memnoch the Devil
Merrick
Merrick (Unabridged)
Pandora
Pandora (Unabridged)
Servant of the Bones
Servant of the Bones (Unabridged)
Taltos
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: The First of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
The Feast of All Saints
The Master of Rampling Gate (Unabridged)
The Mummy or Ramses the Damned
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Thief
The Vampire Armand
The Vampire Armand (Unabridged)
The Vampire Lestat
The Witching Hour
Violin
Violin (Unabridged)
Vittorio the Vampire
