Prince Lestat

The Vampire Chronicles

De: Anne Rice

Narrado por: Simon Vance

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A stunning departure, a surprising and compelling return…From Anne Rice, perennial best seller, single-handed reinventor of the vampire cosmology--a new, exhilarating novel, a deepening of her vampire mythology, and a chillingly hypnotic mystery-thriller.

"What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and again." --from The Vampire Lestat

Rice once again summons up the irresistible spirit-world of the oldest and most powerful forces of the night, invisible beings unleashed on an unsuspecting world able to take blood from humans, in a long-awaited return to the extraordinary world of the Vampire Chronicles and the uniquely seductive Queen of the Damned ("mesmerizing" --San Francisco Chronicle), a long-awaited novel that picks up where The Vampire Lestat ("brilliant…its undead characters are utterly alive" --New York Times) left off more than a quarter of a century ago to create an extraordinary new world of spirits and forces--the characters, legend, and lore of all the Vampire Chronicles.

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, the worlds and beings of all the Vampire Chronicles-Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face is that of a Boticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true Child of the Millennia; along with all the other new seductive, supernatural creatures-come together in this large, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious novel to ultimately rise up and seek out who-or what-the Voice is, and to discover the secret of what it desires and why…

And, at the book's center, the seemingly absent, curiously missing hero-wanderer, the dazzling, dangerous rebel-outlaw--the great hope of the Undead, the dazzling Prince Lestat…

Reseñas de la Crítica

Praise for Anne Rice’s
PRINCE LESTAT

“[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.

-Elise de los Santos, Chicago RedEye

“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.”

-January Magazine

“Irrepressively seductive.”

-John Russell, Next Magazine

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

-Daniel D’Addario, Time

“Chilling.”

-Us Magazine

“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.”

-Cotton Codinha, Elle

“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.”

-Matthew Jackson, BookPage

Oh how I have missed this series

Would you listen to Prince Lestat again? Why?

Yes. All books by Anne Rice are good for multiple reads and this one is no exception.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Lestat of course

Any additional comments?

I have always been an avid fan of Anne Rice and own both the vampire chronicles and the mayfair witches in hardback. I had quite forgotten how much I enjoy Anne Rice's writing and was excited to see Prince Lestat offered here on Audible. The book was well narrated by Simon Vance, I always enjoy listening to Mr. Vance and thought he was an excellent choice to narrate this book. I appreciated the opening chapter which served as a brief overview or catch up from previous books since it has been such a long time between books. On a side note, the Witching Hour was one of my all time favorite books and I was disappointed to discover that this and many other Anne Rice books are only offered abridged. I would like to see more Anne Rice books offered unabridged here on Audible, I would likely buy them all.

Good, but with reservations.

Let's get straight to the point. This is a good novel. It has some pretty major weaknessess but it is still way better than anything Ms. Rice has written since Queen of the Damned. Plus, Vampire the Masquerade borrowed heavily from Rice now this book pays homage to the new ideas VTM brought to her world as she in turn borrows heavily from that work. I will break it down as follows:

The good:

1. Brings closure to the series. She could walk away from Lestat at this point and all loose ends are tied up.
2. Well written, it meanders (A whole lot) but the writting is good enough you overlook it.This is the best thing she's written since Queen of the Damned.
3. Gives a chance to revisit characters we love from the past.
4. The narrarator does a very good job with a multitude of characters and accents.

The bad:

1. Listening to ancient vampires squee over Lestat like a group of teen aged girls at a Justin Beiber concert. It not only is annoying but makes no sense whatsoever.
2. This is a long book. The pace is slow and it wanders aimlessly through the first 2/3 of the book. She pulls the threads together at the end but it is weak at best. The book hit the finale then goes through 3 hours of housekeeping that could have been summed up in one chapter.
3. Lots of self-promotion. If I hear one more reference to her previous books in this novel I would have started shouting profanities.
4. Another reader pointed out that this novel feels like it is on rails. This is true. She is superb at writing but to me the whole thing is like she wrote a fan fiction of her own work (if that makes sense).
5. Highly predictable. If you haven't figured the story out before the characters do please find a nice hospital and check yourself in. The characters take FOREVER to figure out what is plain as the nose on their faces to the reader.


Still it is a good book and worth a credit. Just go into it with realistic expectations and you'll get a lot of enjoyment out of this one.

A must read/listen if your a lore whore like I am.

Enjoyed every second of it. Keeps you invested all the way through! Expanding on characters we thought to be gone. Chefs kiss. As always.

Story is good but, the voice actor wasn't.

I couldn't get a feel for the story because the voice actors voice was too old for all the young men he was reading. People don't understand that the wrong actor can sometimes be the difference between an okay story and a great one. This was an okay story that had potential to be great.

Secondly... so many bi sexual characters. I only say this because ALL of them were Bi sexual even when it didn't fit the personality of the character that was being written. one or two i get...but ALL OF THEM? Seems forced.

Amazing

I am so glad Anne Rice wrote another story in The Vampire Chronicles. I love how well it sums everything up. Hoping I have another to look forward to in the coming years. XOXO Lestat