Blood And Gold - Wyrms.de

electronic resource

English language

Published Sept. 25, 2008 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:: 978-1-4090-3669-2

(2 reviews)

The latest mesmerising and exotic Vampire Chronicle from the mistress of the genre - a must for all readers of The Vampire Armand.Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his 'maker', the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, the Renaissance beauty …

The latest mesmerising and exotic Vampire Chronicle from the mistress of the genre - a must for all readers of The Vampire Armand.Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his 'maker', the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and the boy he calls Amadeo (otherwise known as the Vampire Armand). Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice's glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept' is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.

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Katherine Villyard reviewed Blood and Gold (Anne Rice) by Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles (7))

Review of 'Blood and Gold (Anne Rice)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I………

Three and a half stars for enjoying it, but I feel like Anne abandoned plot in favor of the novel-length character sketch after book four. It feels a lot like a pantsed novel—no shade, I myself am a Pantser. The plot feels weak to me and then peters out.

Also, I quite liked Marius in The Vampire Lestat and The Vampire Armand, but this guy is prone to melodramatic snitfits. I didn’t like him as much in this one; I feel like he never gets over being a Roman Patrician who wants everyone to obey him. Also, after several novels where I felt Marius was the adult supervision of the vampire world, I felt let down by his childish arguments with the women in his life. In previous novels I had him pegged as a dom, but this guy? No way he should engage in SSC/RACK. In short, he …

I………

Three and a half stars for enjoying it, but I feel like Anne abandoned plot in favor of the novel-length character sketch after book four. It feels a lot like a pantsed novel—no shade, I myself am a Pantser. The plot feels weak to me and then peters out.

Also, I quite liked Marius in The Vampire Lestat and The Vampire Armand, but this guy is prone to melodramatic snitfits. I didn’t like him as much in this one; I feel like he never gets over being a Roman Patrician who wants everyone to obey him. Also, after several novels where I felt Marius was the adult supervision of the vampire world, I felt let down by his childish arguments with the women in his life. In previous novels I had him pegged as a dom, but this guy? No way he should engage in SSC/RACK. In short, he didn’t feel consistent with the guy we saw in previous novels.

But somehow I still enjoyed this book.

Michael Gouker

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Sept. 6, 2014