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Fiction · 2015 · PG-13

Prince Lestat

by Anne Rice

The Vampire Chronicles return — and all roads lead back to Lestat.

"The novel opens with the Vampire world in crisis ... vampires have been proliferating out of control; burnings have commenced all over the world, huge massacres similar to those carried out by Akasha in The Queen of the Damned ... Old vampires, roused from slumber in the earth are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn vampire-mavericks in cities from Paris and Mumbai to Hong Kong, Kyoto and San Francisco. As the novel moves from present day New York and the West Coast to Ancient Egypt, fourth century Carthage, 14th century Rome, the Venice of the Renaissance,

For14+GenreFictionLength476 pagesRead time~12.5 hours

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Violence

A lot

Vampire violence; some intense sequences

Language

Barely any

Mild language

Sexual Content

Some

Adult romantic content; vampire sensuality is part of the genre

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Themes of mortality, power, and the burden of being chosen

What this book is about

After a long hiatus, Rice revived the Vampire Chronicles with this novel in which a mysterious voice threatens vampires worldwide, and Lestat is summoned to become what he has always refused to be. Rice gathers characters from across the Chronicles' history in a sprawling, passionate return to form.

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Vampire violence

Adult gothic content

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