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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Not bad. Mrs. Rice is a wonderful writer. (  ) Anagarika | Nov 3, 2009 |  Such a disappointment. Anne Rice is usually so clever. This book is not memorable at all. I can't believe that Anne Rice wrote such a dull and boring story. It wasn't creative at all and I kept waiting for the plot and the characters to get better, but sadly they never did. Upon finishing the last page, I found myself saying "That's it?? What crap!" I know Anne Rice to be better than this and I'm convinced that she wasn't 100% into this story or idea, otherwise it would have been much better. Try any other book by her and I'm sure you'll be pleased, but I wouldn't waste my time with this one. (  ) tanisha364 | Jul 2, 2009 | Another great book by Anne Rice. I loved the historical aspects of this novel. The only thing that bothered me was that too much of the book was dedicated to Vittorio's mortal life and not much was dedicated to him as an actual vampire. (  ) mistique0130 | May 26, 2009 | It was nice revisiting the vampires of Anne Rice, and though Vittorio is not as good as the earlier Vampire Chronicles, I still enjoyed it more than later books like Merrick. I enjoyed reading Rice's lush descriptions and loved the Italian setting of the novel. It was great for a little escape. ( ) thioviolight | Mar 31, 2009 | Hook, line, and sinker. This book was the beginning of my journey thru the mind of Anne Rice's vampires. I have since then, get this incredible and inconsolable urge to pick up another of her novels, and read till fully consumed. dehbiisu | Jan 11, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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Rice has called Vittorio her vampire version of Romeo and Juliet. The hunky Vittorio is sweet 16 and "incalculably rich" in 15th-century Italy, the epoch of the Medicis and Vittorio's favorite painter, madly passionate Filippo Lippi. Florence is to Vittorio what New Orleans is to Interview with the Vampire.
One night, Vittorio's family is butchered by vampires. The gorgeous Ursula spares Vittorio to make him her reluctant undying sweetheart. Ursula's ravishings of Vittorio recall the erotica Rice wrote under her own name and the pen names Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.
Vittorio flees to the creepy town of Santa Maddalana, which has made a pact to sacrifice its young to Lord Florian's vampire horde. Vittorio is bent on revenge as he invades the eerie Court of the Ruby Grail (i.e. blood), as angry with the child-sacrificing humans as he is with Florian's fang gangsters. Torn between lust, murderous rage, and vampire thirst, Vittorio is one interestingly troubled soul.
Rice urges readers to enter Vittorio's world by reading the sources she embroiders, Fra Filippo Lippi and Public Life in Renaissance Florence, and to get a feel for the scary communion Vittorio sees in the Court of the Ruby Grail by listening to All Souls' Vespers. --Tim Appelo
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400)
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