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TITLE

Blackwood Farm

PUBLISHED

2002

AUTHOR

Anne Rice

PAGE COUNT

530 PAGES

PUBLISHER

Arrow Books

ISBN

0-701-17470-6

CRAIG'S RATING

PLOT

Lestat is back, savior and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred though generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide.

Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbors terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts.  Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash, and beautiful, himself a tyro "blood hunter" whom Lestat takes under his wing.  But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others.  Only the unearthly powers of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the ubiquitous Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from his own mortality.

Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title brings us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing.  Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and doppelgänger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

TAKEN FROM THE INSIDE COVER OF "BLACKWOOD FARM" ©2002 BY ANNE RICE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CRAIG'S REVIEW

Rice yet again shows her talents are a writer with this stunning masterpiece called "Blackwood Farm" she does well in this tale has she deals with the life of Quinn the heir to Blackwood Farm and his wondering through his life.  Chilling in some parts and laughing in others this makes for a great tale that you will remember for long to come.

My only two concerns about this book is that there is an overcrowding of characters in this book which you might find some of these characters need not be in this book.  And how some of by best loved characters have only a small part in the actual makeup of this book.

But overall the book is a good read and well recommend, I would suggest you have at least read Merrick before reading this book.

 

 

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