Product Description

In Miami, 1992, a tropical garden of a city where corruption pulses beneath the lush surface is the perfect city for a vampire. Yet Lestat - hero, rock star, incorrigible seducer and the most powerful and sensual vampire of them all - prowls this savage garden in desperate misery. Restlessly pursuing the mystery of his dark existence, Lestat yearns to think, breathe and feel as a man, free of his nightmare immortality. When, stalked in his turn by the only creature able to grant his desire, Lestat rashly seizes the chance. While the Body Thief, cloaked in Lestat's immortal powers, lays a trail of carnage across America and the Caribbean, Lestat himself is abandoned to the fragility of human life, and discovers that a mortal body is no fit receptacle for a vampire's soul. Rejected by the other vampires, a tormented and appallingly vulnerable Lestat is forced to seek human help to recover his vampire self; help he abuses unforgivably when, in a mesmerizing climax, he succumbs to the basest urge in any nature.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15589 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Publisher
Electrifying, erotic, terrifying - the fourth book in the Vampire Chronicles is as rich, as violent, as sensual as the three runaway bestsellers that preceded it.

About the Author
Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter in an Irish Catholic family. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, became a cult best-seller, as did her two subsequent books in the Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. She also writes erotica under two pseudonyms. Anne Rice lives in New Orleans with her husband, the poet and university professor Stan Rice, and their son.

Customer Reviews

Still a good read
This is by no means the best novel in Anne Rice's Vampire collection. However it is still a gripping read that keeps the reader riveted to the pages trying to find out how Lestat reacts to his new body and how he then in a weakened human form goes on to try and get his old body back.

If you like the previous Vampire novels by Anne Rice then this is a must read.

Give it another chance
I loved the first three vampire chronical books and even after many people telling me to stop there I couldn't get enough. But the first time I read the tale of the body thief I was sucked in by the bad reviews. I hated the thought of my favourite character Lestat becoming vunerable and I found myself flicking though the 'human' parts until he regained his own body. But after a few months I felt like re reading through the chronicals and I approched this book with a new attitude and realised it was filled with the same wonderful descriptions and gripping situations as the previous books. I can understand why after the 'fantasy' tales a bit of harsh reality that is presented in this book can be off putting, it nearly put me off re reading the book at all. I suggest you look at this book as not a continuation from The Queen Of The Damned but a new book in itself beginning a new tale that is very important in the development of the character Lestat. I think it is a mistake to expect this book to reveal the after mass of QOTD.

Loved it!!!
I loved this book. I did find it a bit slow at first, but once it got going it was amazing.

I really enjoyed 'The Vampire Lestat', so this book really hooked me. There is something so addictive about Lestat and to hear his thoughts on being human again were very entertaining.

I especially liked the idea of someone falling in love with him. The fact she was a nun only added to the 'Casanova' charm. But seriously, I really liked this book and it is definately worth a read.