Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles Audiobook

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• No one does what Anne Rice does . . . Not only does she find ways—brilliant ways—to tease new narrative potential from old stories, she does so while acknowledging that those stories are already part of the other characters’ psyches.  I don’t know of any other novelist doing that . . . she has not lost any of her flair for description, allowing us to experience the world the way her vampires do, with the sensory volume turned up to 11 . . . fun, sexy, and irresistible.”

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• -January Magazine

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• Irrepressively seductive.”

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• -John Russell, Next Magazine

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• Bloody marvelous . . . Prince Lestat is saving the undead from banality and overfamiliarity.”

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• -Daniel D’Addario, Time

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• Chilling.”

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• -Us Magazine

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• Anne Rice reminds us just how immense and rich with history her universe of poetic, morally questioning vampires is, and Prince Lestat serves as a palate cleanser to the hormone-soaked teen dramas of the past few years. It’s nice to have a real grown-up back in the game.”

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• -Cotton Codinha, Elle

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• Ambitious...Rice never lost touch with the exuberant, often witty, and always fearless voice of irrepressible vampire Lestat de Lioncourt... Rice has offered us a tale of tremendous ambition, and she’s absolutely delivered.”

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• -Matthew Jackson, BookPage 

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• “With this novel, we can all rejoice that Brat Prince Lestat has returned—and he couldn’t have been called from his exile at a more pressing time. The entire vampire world has descended into bloody massacres and the madness of destruction. Many of Rice’s hallmark characters return in this novel, but make no mistake: Prince Lestat is no quiet swan song. It ripples with suspense and excitement.”

  — Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review

• [Rice] retakes her throne as Queen of the Damned . . . visceral and gritty . . . [Prince Lestat] infuses new life into the Vampire Chronicles and sets the stage for a new era.

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• -Elise de los Santos, Chicago RedEye

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• “Rice’s newest Vampire Chronicles installment is triumphant…Rice fills the dense story with plenty of deliciously gory mythology.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Vampire fans, you’ve been waiting a long time—since 2003’s Blood Canticle, in fact—for Rice to revisit the territory first trod by that immortal dazzler Lestat. Rice revisits familiar climes and characters from her ‘Chronicles’ but shows us a world where vampires have proliferated dangerously, leading to mass burnings. Even old vampires join in, obeying a cryptic Voice. A book you can chew on.”

  — Library Journal

• “The vampires are back, and they’re ready to rumble…Things aren’t going well in the vampire world these days: A population explosion among the immortals has led to chaos, pitting vampire against vampire. Will Lestat rise to the top of the new order? After her long detour from the wildly popular Vampire Chronicles, Rice ties old and new characters together in a lavishly spooky package.”

  — BookPage

• “Rice extends the Chronicles even farther into the past, rounding out storylines stretching into ancient Egypt, while reintroducing a large cast of familiars and adding some new characters to the mix…The busy intergenerational (and interplanes of existence) conflict that ensues screams out for at least one sequel, if not a string of them. Rice fans probably need not fear a drought of her thirst-quenching tales, then. As for this one, it’s trademark Rice: talky, inconsequential, but good old-fashioned fanged fun.”

  — Kirkus Reviews