" It's said that books can allow us to be an "armchair tourist" so that we can travel the world without ever leaving our home. It's not even humanly possible, I suppose, to visit 3rd century Antioch, for example... Rice's signature richness and detail, coupled with her meticulous research, vivid imagination, and (in my view) unparalleled talent at world-building actually takes us there through the eyes of Pandora, the first, and I think foremost, character in her New Tales of the Vampires series. "
— Nik, 2/14/2014