What I love about this author is as apparent in this small novella as it was in the ten book Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and the six book Gap series. The ability to create wonderful sensory worlds the reader can feel, complicated characters the reader can care about, and plots that unfold organically from the interaction of this world and these characters. After reading a book of his, I feel as though I have taken a vacation albeit in a foreign and intricate world.
And what a treat to move from Stephen R Donaldson to Anne Rice, a creator of wonderful ways of seeing this world through the eyes of beautiful, ever growing complicated characters. The book starts with a quick history as told in previous books of this series, through the eyes of Lestat. We find him again nursing depression and boredom and a feeling of being outside of the world alone looking in. He is being haunted by a "Voice" that speaks in lots of languages, mourning and mumbling almost in tune with Lestat's own mood. He is bid by the Voice to "Help Me," and "Come to Me," but he does not know who or where it is....
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