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From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power.
"In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken...." (Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis)
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Dracula, My Love
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Jinni. Empress. Warrior. Slave. Nalia is a jinni of tremendous ancient power, the only survivor of a coup that killed nearly everyone she loved. Stuffed into a bottle and sold by a slave trader, she's now in hiding on the dark caravan, the lucrative jinni slave trade between Arjinna and Earth, where jinn are forced to grant wishes and obey their human masters' every command. She'd give almost anything to be free of the golden shackles that bind her to Malek, her cruel master, and his lavish Hollywood lifestyle.
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Interesting Story
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Use an audiobook to really enjoy Satanic Verses
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Terrible and Beautiful
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A tale of the distant future by the author of The Shape-Changer's Wife brings listeners to a world in which the fate of all life rests on the voice of an angel.
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An All-TIme Favorite
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Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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1001 whimsical, capricious, and wanton jinn
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good story but
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Moonheart
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When Sara and Jamie discovered the artifacts, they sensed the pull of a dim, distant place, a world of misty forests, ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards...and restless evil.
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Enjoyable, different storyline
- By Vava on 10-19-09
By: Charles de Lint
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- The Unaverage Bear
- 12-29-16
A Return to Form
Much like everyone else, after trudging through Prince Lestat I was ready to give up on Anne Rice's work for good. Especially after seeing the title of this latest addition to the series. I mean, come on, "The Realms of Atlantis" sounds like Anne Rice is going to be adding Aquaman, Spongebob, and Little Mermaid into her unique world of vampires, ghosts, spirits, and witches. A free Audible credit and the curiosity of how much worse can this get won out my decision making process and a few minutes later, I was listening to Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis on my car ride back home from work. I'm happy to report, this was a great decision!
Realms of Atlantis picked up the pieces of Prince Lestat and put them back together into a cohesive story with a plot that moved along at an excellent pace while maintaining the mystery, splendor, and grandeur I've come to admire in Rice's work. Whoever edited this book must have realized how repetitive the language was in the previous installment because there was none of it in this one except for a few choice sentences of which make sense in context.
Realms of Atlantis answers questions fans of the series have long wondered about such as the origin of the vampires, Amel the spirit which has been at the very center of their existence, and even Memnoch the Devil is addressed in this book (Although, I'm disappointed with explanation of Memnoch). Atop of all this, we are introduced to a wholly new race of beings whose origins are incredibly interesting and explored in depth.
Rice introduces several more new characters into the series which seems like a bad idea due to the sizable amount of characters from series past. This time around the cast is just as large yet it doesn't seem to hamper the story. Each character we've come to know and love (Marius, Armand, Louis) gets a good amount of dialogue and interaction but don't slow the book down to brood on their every thought or idea. Despite these characters being worlds onto their own already explored in other books, it was a good move leaving them as supporting cast.
At the end of the book, we're left with more questions than answers which is okay. I'm looking forward to reading more about it in future installments. While some of the revelations might seem hokey on the surface, they are handled and addressed in such a way which make them feel as normal as the vampires do.
Overall, I'd recommend this book to those who are still feeling the disappointment of Prince Lestat and want to get the sour taste of it out of their mouths. It's incredibly different from whatever that book was and this feels more like the Anne Rice of past.
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Needed A Good Editor
This book needed a good editor to prune a lot of excess verbiage. There are about three hours (could be more, it was mind numbing) in the middle of the book devoted to highly detailed - and often repetitive - descriptions of Atalantaya. These descriptions did nothing to advance the story and next to nothing to flesh out the characters. After the fourth detailing of a particular feature, such as the building material, I wanted to write a letter to Rice's editor and suggest more stringent review.
The story itself blends the usual vampire lore with a generous dollop of straight up science fiction. Basically, there are extraterrestrial aliens among us, and they may - or may not - present a threat to the familiar vampires. Certainly they intended to threaten life on earth as we know it. The book's promo was more interesting than the story itself.
Lestat is a much tamer version of himself. Louis is more of a sycophant. Marius reverts to the Roman general he once was. Yawn.
Simon Vance adopts a number of accents for the various characters. With limited success. He appears to be trying a Southern drawl for Louis, but it's neither accurate nor consistent. Lestat's French accent is similarly thin. Not sure what's going on with Marius, or Seth. Or Farid; this character needs a distinctive voice, but didn't get it. This book doesn't seem as skillful a narration as some of the earlier books.
I considered not finishing the book. At 17 hours, 13 minutes, it's longer than most audiobooks. Even with the two hour edit suggested above, it's too long. Rice could have told the story in a more engaging manner had she trimmed the fat. Perhaps its time to end the saga; that could certainly be done given the ending of the book (no spoilers). Still, it's the Vampire Chronicles, so I forced myself to finish.
I'm thinking about returning it for my credit, that's a good summary of how I felt about this book. Sad, given how eager I was to read it.
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Anti-Christian
So Anne Rice has been Catholic, Atheist, Catholic, now she's obviously atheist again. When she wrote The Vampire Lestat, which is one of my favorite books, I believe she was atheist then. But in this latest installment she actually tore Christianity apart. Why do that?
But beside that, I did not care for the alien story line. It was very repetitive and vampires that we've all grown to love, were whiny, political and indecisive and really not a big part of the book. This is the last Anne Rice book I will ever read.
Simon Vance did an excellent job as always.
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- Liberty
- 12-01-16
Don't Miss This Masterful Modern Morality Play!
Whether you are an Anne Rice fan or not, this riveting story painted in lush, eloquent prose brought to life in a magnificent performance by Simon Vance, delivers a deep examination of God, Soul, universal connectivity, equanimity, community, justice, love and even diplomacy. Although I've been an Anne Rice fan for nearly forty years, I did not realize The Vampire Chronicles embodied the internal and external components of a modern morality play until I heard them performed by Mr. Vance. Each of the twelve volumes grinds the characters through grief, physical and psychic pain no mere human could ever survive, thus the vampire, immortal metaphor. Prince Lestat gives us both male and female response to the tribulations and agony of life in 'the savage garden.' I've read and listened to the Vampire Chronicles many times and feel strongly that Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis is, without doubt, her best work yet.
If you are looking for blood and guts gratuitous violence, you won't find it here. Violence is the amazing artistic device she uses as pivotal events to change everything you've experienced up until that point. If you love beautiful writing, you will love this book.
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- Shaun
- 02-18-17
A bunch of vampires preach against Christianity
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Maybe if they did something besides sit around and talk. A little action at all would be nice.
Would you ever listen to anything by Anne Rice again?
She is usually preachy. But she is really reaching to promote some sort of socialism/utopia and uses this story as a preaching platform almost completely.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointing.
Any additional comments?
It would be great if she would cut the philosophy down. And actually have some story and some action. She has these "godlike" powerful vampires that do nothing.
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- Tammie Patrick
- 12-10-16
just not loving it
the storyline seemed forced and far fetched even for a vampire book. in a lot of ways it seemed like a revised version of tale of the body thief. not impressed with it at all.
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- Bob-o
- 12-02-16
Not her best, but still very good.
Most of Anne's books have more action than this one. The writing style, in my opinion is more like her Mayfair books, but entirely in the vampire world. There were lots of discussions about concepts, new charicters, and the world of Atlantis. The full cast of characters are there, but not everyone has a speaking role. Overall I enjoyed it. Simon Vance did an excellent job! I have mixed opinions about him. He is sometimes mediocre, and puts me to sleep with his sing song cadence, or he does such fantastic job that he can make an awful book seem better than average.
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- carl
- 01-14-17
Weak.
The story is weak and these vampires keep getting more and more effeminate. The story is replete with lengthy descriptions of hair and clothing. Everyone is constantly crying. Angst-ridden characters compete for the prize of most dramatic when there is little to be dramatic about. The endless soft vowel "a" that seems to end so many words in this story that are repeated over and over and over.
I had to wade through this story only because I paid for it.
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- Matt
- 12-17-16
Aliens?
Yes, it's a book about vampires and aliens. Mostly exposition with little climax. Lestat as a character has become rather dull in general. It's not terribly written but the suspension of belief is questioned heavily as soon as the fact that aliens exist is tossed in nonchalantly.
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- Nathanael E. Hall
- 12-22-16
loved it
amazing, looping in the past and cohesively bringing all the characters together in a logical way.
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