Blood canticle - Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles #10)

This time Lestat really is back with a vengeance, and in thrall to Rowan Mayfair. In this latest mesmerising volume of The Vampire Chronicles, two irresistible visions collide and merge as Lestat moves through the world of Blackwood Farm and the Mayfair Witches. Here is the inimitable voice – mocking and seductive, cool but full of passion – that wooed millions of readers, as the Vampire Lestat takes up once more the thrilling story of his own struggle between the lust for blood and the quest for love, between gratification and redemption.

Here too are the brilliantly conceived characters that make up Rice’s unique pantheon: Ophelia-like Mona Mayfair, taken over into the realm of the undead… her ghostly uncle, Julien Mayfair, who torments Lestat… Rowan Mayfair, witch and neurosurgeon, who draws spirits to herself, casts spells on others and finds herself dangerously drawn to Lestat… Rowan’s husband, Michael Curry, hero of The Mayfair Chronicles, seeking Lestat’s help… Ash Templeton, a 5,000-year-old Taltos, whose genes live on in the Mayfairs… Patsy, country and western singer, killed by Quinn Blackwood and dumped in a swamp… and at the book’s heart, the Vampire Lestat himself, damned and yet drawn to kill but tempted by goodness. Now he fights to save Patsy’s ghost from the dark realm of the Earthbound, to uncover the mystery of the Taltos in their tropical island hideaway, and to decide the fate of Rowan Mayfair.