Product Description

After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind, and it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74802 in Books
• Published on: 1990-02-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Review
'By filtering staple mythic conventions through her own gothic sensibility, Anne Rice is able to create an entertaining legend of her own' - NEW YORK TIMES 'The text pulses with menace, mystery and violence, and with sensuality verging on erotica' - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Imaginative ... intelligently written ... This is popular fiction of the highest order' USA TODAY

The sensual atmospheres and wonderfully human monsters that made Interview With a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat so delightful can be found here, but only briefly: the third book in Rice's Vampire Chronicles is thin, unconvincing, and a grave disappointment. Six thousand yearn ago, in the Middle East, two good witches, Maharet and Mekate, twin sisters, worked their small magics, communing with the spirits. Under duress, they reveal to Akasha, the selfish and beautiful new Queen of Egypt, that her religion is false, her gods only prankish spirits. Akasha has them mutilated; one of their attendant spirits, with a taste for blood, exacts revenge by taking over her body and making her first vampire. Now, after sleeping for millennia, growing immensely powerful, Akasha has woken to the music of the Vampire Lestat, and plans to install herself as goddess of the world. She starts by killing all the vampires except a handful and taking Lestat as her beauty- and power-besotted consort. The good vampires - some familiar: Marius, Armand, Gabrielle, Louis - get together to stop her' Maharet reveals her story, the origin of them all; until defeated, Akasha proceeds with her plan to end violence: kill nine out of every ten men on earth. There are a few winning new characters, and early on, some good scenes, but these are more than offset by Maharet's long tale (told in a tone of mock-solemnity, dragging thinly on and on), the silliness of Akasha's plan, the sophomoric debate that goes with it, and her deus-ex-machina defeat. (Kirkus Reviews)

Synopsis
After 6,000 years of horrifying stillness, Akash, mother of all vampires and Queen of the Damned, has risen from her sleep to let loose the powers of the night. But her monstrous plan for ruling the worlds of the living and the undead must be stopped before she destroys mankind, and it falls to the evil vampire Lestat to fight her all-encompassing evil - for it is he who challenged her power by waking her from sleep.

About the Author
Anne Rice is the author of the celebrated series of gothic novels featuring the vampire Lestat. As Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure she is one of the best contemporary writers of erotic fiction.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
Having read only a few Anne Rice book's so far, i have to say this is my favourite so far. The story flows easily from character to character, and I love the way characters barely seen before are given more substance. Although it can get confusing at times, a second or third reading reveals all. Every Anne Rice fan should read this, buy it now!!!!

simple brilliant
This is a brilliant addition to a already awsome series of books. I always new Lestat would go in style. His not exactly the type to slink of in to the background and have a quiet life or death as it may be, but I never expected anything like this. The decriptions and charecters in this book where nothing short of incredible, While reading the book I could actually hear the music and see the places in my minds eye. In her desriptions of hell I could almost see the soles of the dead wondering around hell.
This book also told me alot about Lestat that I never new befor in prvious books Lestat may have been in pain but in this book he is in pure agony and you really see another side of him.

great horror
Just when I throught when the vampire cronicals couldn't get any better they did. This is by far the best Anne Rice book I have read. Witty, scary and in certain places funny. Anne rice pulls you in to Lestat's terryfing and thrilling world once more, when he wakes up the 6,000 year old Queen of the damned who is hell bent on reaping havoc and destroying man. Who will stop her!