Discover the 3 best books by Anne Rice

Anne Rice She was a unique writer, repeatedly a world bestseller, but always subject to emotional swings associated with her spirituality and with a notable impact of that transcendental search on part of her work. Because in her busy life, with different stages inside and outside of religion, Rice was converted to inner need, with the ease and virtuosity of someone who enters and leaves her chrysalis.

Perhaps the first change was due to satiety about his own work, a set of narratives about the world of vampires, with incursions into the extensive Gothic imaginary of this enormous cultural reference, on deep and existential aspects of the human being from which the vampire world also drinks and, of course, also intricate its plots with the erotic and the sexual.

Going from this type of fantastic stories to themes about Jesus Christ and Christianity could have provided that fresh air that the author needed. But in the end everything was a parenthesis, a step back to gain perspective and gain new strength. Because Anne Rice returned to writing fantasy themes and Horror, collecting his old readers and the many new ones who succumbed to his good work and his particular narrative style. An unforgettable author that we will always miss.

Top 3 Recommended Anne Rice Novels

Interview with the Vampire

Published in the 70s, it has been one of the most valued and always evoked works on this subject. With undeniable sexual connotations, even homosexual ones, he reaffirmed that link between the vampire world and erotic dreams that are always linked to the idea of ​​blood, bites ...

In this novel, Anne Rice narrates the conversion of a young man from New Orleans into an eternal inhabitant of the night. The protagonist, carried away by the feeling of guilt caused by the death of his younger brother, longs to transform into a cursed being.

However, from the beginning of his supernatural life, he feels invaded by the most human feelings, such as the love that ties him to one of his victims, a passion not exempt, of sexual and psychological dependence.

With Interview with the Vampire, Rice began her Vampire Chronicles series and achieved great success after her successful film adaptation. How can we forget those scenes in which Antonio Banderas and Tom Cruise indulged in lust with those indolent gestures of the one known to be cradled by immortality ...

Interview with the Vampire

Prince lestat

Most recent culmination of her Vampire Chronicles series, a vital series in the case of this author, as it has accompanied her for decades, even leaving it parked for many years.

Prince Lestat picks up where Lestat the Vampire ended more than a quarter of a century ago, to offer us a new world of spirits and dark forces based on the characters, legends and traditions of the Vampire Chronicles.

The world of the creatures of the night is in a crisis: vampires have proliferated uncontrollably and now dreadful fires have started all over the world. Some elderly vampires, awakened from their sleep underground, obey the orders of a Voice that incites them to indiscriminately burn the young undead, rebels who haunt cities such as Paris, Bombay, Hong Kong, Kyoto and San Francisco.

The novel moves from present-day New York and the West Coast to ancient Egypt, passing through XNUMXth century Carthage, XNUMXth century Rome and Renaissance Venice. In it, we meet again with unforgettable characters such as Louis de Pointe du Lac; the eternally young Armand, whose face resembles that of a Botticelli angel; Mekare and Maharet, Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and keeper of the secret of the Talamasca, and Marius, the true Son of the Millennials, as well as other new and seductive creatures, gathered in this huge, exuberant and ambitious novel, to find out who or what the Voice is, and find out what you want and why ...

Prince lestat

The angel's test

Anne Rice has written far beyond the vampire world. But terror is always a subject that he tackles masterfully. Within that religious thriller trend in which Dan Brown stands out, Rice also made various inroads.

This novel corresponds to the second part of The Hour of the Angel. Toby O'Dare, a former hitman, is called by the angel Malachi to XNUMXth century Rome. This is the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of the Holy Inquisition and of Leo X, son of a Medici, now occupying the papal throne.

Your presence is required to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the truth about a restless diabolical spirit that is reluctant to leave earth. O'Dare soon finds himself in the middle of a plot as dark as it is complex, as the threat of church terror closes in on him.

Embarked on a mighty journey of redemption, O'Dare reconnects with his own past, encounters the promise of salvation, and emerges with a renewed, deeper and richer vision of love. A new novel by the teacher of the paranormal. A lyrical and delicious work that will undoubtedly fascinate the most demanding readers of Anne Rice.

The angel's test
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