I have always been a fan of her Vampire Chronicles and must say that once more she didn’t disappoint me. The book follows the life of one of the children of the millennia, the vampire Marius, born 400BC in Rome.
What I like about Anne Rice’s books is the way she manages to merge in the most natural, feasible and fascinating way my two favorite literary genres, the fantasy and the historical.
Fantasy makes you escape to a plane where everything is possible, where
your imagination can run free and you can experience something completely different and new from what you are stuck with every day. Historical just fascinates you with the different approach to things and way of living, things that seem impossible like a fantasy but yet happened, it mesmerizes you with the precious detail, the different styles of each era.
When reading Marius the vampire you follow a captivating storyline, like in every good book, you fear for the good guy, you curse the bad ...