Well crafted chiller as usual ( )

Great story. She's great weaving history into her stories. ( )

Odd. Nicely written, but a tad difficult to get into. As always, I enjoyed the imagery she presented, but felt the ending was not as nicely wrapped up as she usually aims for. The ending was rushed, and anticlimactic, but the story concept was fresh. ( )

A good departure from Rice's vampire series. This is a smart history speckled tale. I like it! ( )

From Amazon:
"Anne Rice takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genji, demon, angel - pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to the Europe of the Black Death and to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction."

I read the first 4 books of the Vampire Chronicles and a smothering of other Rice books, but eventually lost interest and moved on to other things. I got this book as part of a paperback swap. I hadn't read any of her books for a decade or so. And it just did not work for me anymore. Her writing just annoyed me. I thought her characters sounded immature and naive. And the writing style just rubbed me the wrong way. I am not sure what about it I did not like, but it kept throwing me off. Hard to believe now, how much I loved "Interview with the Vampire" and "The Vampire Lestat" back in the days. ( )