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Title: Merrick (Vampire/Witches Chronicles) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0-345-42240-6 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38 (285 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Beating A Dead Horse-er-Vampire
Comment: With "Merrick", Anne Rice promises to return us to the world of the Vampires and the Mayfair Witches. The combining of both supernatural worlds seems almost too good to resist. What a letdown. I had stopped reading her books after "Lasher" because I felt she was now writing at the mercy of a publishing schedule . The original allure that was in "Interview..." and "The Vampire Lestat" had been lost as she tried to get one book out a year and I felt the stories had become lackluster. Sadly that's how I felt about this novel as well. No one can deny that Rice is a wonderful writer, who illustrates her work with a sweeping romantic narrative, but I felt cheated here. The first hundred pages or so is almost nothing but recap from the previous novels as David Talbot introduces the title character. The promised Mayfair witches have a family relation to Merrick, but are only seen in one chapter of the book. The child vampire Claudia is used as a major plot point to propel the novel which felt old, and like an easy way out. Even Lestat seems like a hack, showing up in the last forty pages in what feels like a glorified cameo. I feel like she should put these characters to rest for a while and find a new subject to write about.I loved the early books and wanted to love this as well, and based on some of the other reviews I'm probably in the minority. However I can't say a book is good just because it contains characters I think were great.
Rating: 3
Summary: Review by Tara
Comment: I love all of my Vampire Chronicle books, but I do have to say that this one did not touch me as much as I had hoped. The story on its own merits is good. I just did not get to spend the time with the charecters I truley wanted to. Anne Rice has done this before, when she went from INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE to THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. That was very successful we all fell in love with Lestat. I just never felt as if I truley cared for David Talbot, or his adventures. As for the charecter Merrick, she is very interesting. The time you do get to spend with our old friends, Louis, Claudia, and Lestat is well spent and revives some of the chills you had in the very first of these books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Heck of a read
Comment: It's hard to say which is my favorite Rice novel. Certainly INTERVIEW comes to mind, a well as LASHER and THE WITCHING HOUR. But if I had to pick, MERRICK would probably take the prize.
I think what throws most Rice fans off concerning this book is that it's not like her others. Well in some ways, obviously, but for me it had a differnt feel. The characters seemed more "flesh and blood" and while I didn't feel the dialogue was as good in this book as in INTERVIEW or LASHER, the overall effect of the novel was well beyond those two.
Also recommended: Lasher, Grisham's The Firm, and Mccrae's Bark of the Dogwood
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Title: Blood and Gold by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345409329 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Blackwood Farm by ANNE RICE ISBN: 0345443683 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Vampire Armand (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 6) by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345434803 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Vittorio, the Vampire by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345422392 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice ISBN: 0345409671 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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