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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Horror.
Thriller.
HTML:Perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative??her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches??to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.
Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, ??Goblin,? a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can??t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.
As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn??s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.
A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at… (mais)
El Santuario Anne Rice Publicado: 2002 | 557 páginas Novela Terror Serie: Crónicas Vampíricas #9 /s8q16ss4u_G4
Quinn Blackwood, un rico y excéntrico joven convertido en vampiro, pide la ayuda de Lestat para librarse del celoso control a que le somete Goblin, su doppelgänger. Desde que Quinn entró en el reino de los muertos, Goblin, otrora su sombra fiel, se ha convertido en una amenaza para los seres cercanos al atractivo gentleman. Lestat, intrigado, le pide a Quinn que narre la historia de su vida. Este recuerda su infancia en el seno de una familia muy peculiar y describe sus días en Blackwood Farm, la mansión de altas columnas y extensos jardines rodeada de zonas pantanosas en la que creció y ahora reside. Apesar de su amor por Mona Mayfair, una bella bruja con la que mantiene una apasionada relación, Quinn posee una agitada vida amorosa que, junto a su imperioso deseo de beber sangre, le ha llevado a recorrer el mundo y conocer distintas épocas de la historia. Del Nueva Orleans actual al Nápoles del siglo XIX, pasando por la antigua Atenas o Pompeya, la intensa trayectoria vital de Quinn reúne en un mismo volumen las Crónicas Vampíricas y la serie de Las Brujas de Mayfair para revelar nuevos episodios de la historia de los vampiros.
I have owned this book (and most of the series) for a LONG time and am finally getting around to finishing them. I put down Blood & Gold about 120 pages in due to boredom, so I took a chance and jumped into this one. For being such a very long novel, I got through it relatively quickly, although there were definitely some slow spots that I could hardly wait to get past. This story was wind-y and twisty and not really what I was expecting for a "Lestat book." I've always found Anne Rice books difficult to read, but this one was a little less so than the rest. I won't go into details or character development since there are so many characters and so much going on in Quinn's story. Suffice it to say, if you enjoyed the first seven(?) books in the series, then you will more than likely enjoy this one...I would suggest skipping number eight though. But that's just me.
All in all, an epic novel of family, love, lore, ghosts, and, in the end, vampires. ( )
Quinn Blackwood, un rico y excéntrico joven convertido en vampiro, pide la ayuda de Lestat para librarse del celoso control a que le somete Goblin, su doppelgänger. Desde que Quinn entró en el reino de los muertos, Goblin, otrora su sombra fiel, se ha convertido en una amenaza para los seres cercanos al atractivo gentleman. Lestat, intrigado, le pide a Quinn que narre la historia de su vida. Éste recuerda su infancia en el seno de una familia muy peculiar y describe sus días en Blackwood Farm, la mansión de altas columnas y extensos jardines rodeada de zonas pantanosas en la que creció y ahora reside.
Of all the Vampire Chronicles, this is probably my favorite - after The Vampire Lestat, of course. The story of Tarquin Blackwood in his journey from mortal to vampire is tragically beautiful. The main reason I read this book was that I had heard that Lestat was in it and I was on a binge-read of all things TVL. Much to my surprise, the (former) Brat Prince doesn't really play a large role in this novel but it's no biggie because Tarquin- in the telling of his life story - stole a piece of my heart; his life feels so familiar and while the wry sarcasm that Lestat is known for is missing, Quinn is just as charismatic.
I hope he makes an appearance in the upcoming show for The Vampire Chronicles.
(Off topic but I always thought that Robert Sheehan would make a great Quinn Blackwood!) ( )
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My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again. If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. I have said to rottenness: thou art my father; to worms, my mother and my sister. Where is now then my expectation and who considereth my patience? All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest? JOB 17:11 - 16 DV.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Dedicated to my son, Christopher Rice
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Lestat, If you find this letter in your house in Rue Royale, and I do sincerely think you will find it-- you'll know at once that I have broken your rules.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Horror.
Thriller.
HTML:Perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative??her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches??to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.
Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger, ??Goblin,? a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can??t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelgänger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.
As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn??s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.
A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at
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Serie: Crónicas Vampíricas #9 /s8q16ss4u_G4
Quinn Blackwood, un rico y excéntrico joven convertido en vampiro, pide la ayuda de Lestat para librarse del celoso control a que le somete Goblin, su doppelgänger. Desde que Quinn entró en el reino de los muertos, Goblin, otrora su sombra fiel, se ha convertido en una amenaza para los seres cercanos al atractivo gentleman. Lestat, intrigado, le pide a Quinn que narre la historia de su vida. Este recuerda su infancia en el seno de una familia muy peculiar y describe sus días en Blackwood Farm, la mansión de altas columnas y extensos jardines rodeada de zonas pantanosas en la que creció y ahora reside. Apesar de su amor por Mona Mayfair, una bella bruja con la que mantiene una apasionada relación, Quinn posee una agitada vida amorosa que, junto a su imperioso deseo de beber sangre, le ha llevado a recorrer el mundo y conocer distintas épocas de la historia. Del Nueva Orleans actual al Nápoles del siglo XIX, pasando por la antigua Atenas o Pompeya, la intensa trayectoria vital de Quinn reúne en un mismo volumen las Crónicas Vampíricas y la serie de Las Brujas de Mayfair para revelar nuevos episodios de la historia de los vampiros.