Can it get more convoluted
If you have read any of my other blogs, you'll notice a trend. I am your average geek. One of my passions is reading books. Horror novels.
But I have a beef.
I'm staring RIGHT at you Miss. Rice. That is right, Anne Rice, author of over twenty books, most of those one long series of vampire novels, starting with Interview With a Vampire.
Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of her writing. She writes beautifully, and as a fledging writer myself, I hope to write as well as her one day. But, the madness has to stop.
After moving to New Orleans, A. Rice wrote a lenghty book called The Witching Hour, which was about a line of Witches that hailed from Scotland. It is a big, big tome, and hard to get through. It was followed by Lasher and Taltos. Good books.
This series stopped. There was no where else to go. The trilogy was complete, so to speak. But, like George Lucus, she couldn't leave well enough alone. The Mayfair Witches must be pushed on.
After countless vampire novels, she concocted a novel called Merrick. Rice fans will know what I'm talking about. It is a novel where Lestat comes back and they seek out a witch named Merrick Mayfair. She was born on the darkside of the Mayfair name, which, was the subject of the Witching Hour book, and it's sequels. Merrick is asked to come from the Talamasca to communicate with the spirit of the dead vampire Claudia from Interview with a Vampire. Louise, who tries to take center stage, is guilty about ever giving her the dark trick.
So, enters Merrick ,and events go on, and she becomes a vampire. Ok, she is on the ropes of hte Mayfair family, but wait...there is more.
Blackwood Farm. Enter Tarquin Blackwood, who tells Lestat the story of his becoming to the darker side of humanity. It's a really interesting story, and I love the concept. Unfortunately, Tarquin falls in love with a major character from the Mayfair Witches: Mona Mayfair. At hte end of the book, Lestat brings her over. Next!
Blood Canticle. I haven't read it yet, I perfer paperback.
It is the continuation of the mingling of the Vampires and the Witches. Mona is now one of them, and the story goes from there, intergratingtwo separate storylines.
WHY?
I don't know why Mrs. Rice had to smash her two blockbuster series together into a mash of..what? The story is getting old, and pretty soon they will all be supernatural witch/vampires? I don't know, but I will read the last one. Silly me, it won't be the last one, but that is okay. I jsut think it would have been better to keep them separate, unless there is some grande finale that is going to happen. Not likely, since Rice has stated a couple of times that since the death of her husband earlier this year * moment of silence* that she will most likely be hanging up the pen.
For some reason I am reminded of the Wheel of Time Series....