Blood Canticle
" Song of Blood" (English: Blood Canticle ) is a 2004 published fantasy / vampire novel of American author Anne Rice. It is the tenth and final installment of Rice's Vampire Chronicles 1976 commenced with the vampire Lestat. The book was panned by the critics and led to an open letter in which Rice their anger over the alleged incompetence of the readers who expressed.
Background
Rice wrote the 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire. The main characters are the vampires Louis and Lestat. The book was in the paperback edition of a bestseller. Rice wrote until 2002, eight other vampire books under the series name The Vampire Chronicles: were summarized (Eng. The Vampire Chronicles ). Already after the ninth book of Blackwood Farm (2003 ) announced it that the tenth book would be the last. The reason she called her conversion to Catholicism and the unwillingness to write books about " unholy " creatures such as vampires.
Action
The story is told of Rice's main character, the vampire Lestat. Protagonist is a young witch named Mona, the protege of Lestat's friend Rowan. Mona suffers from a mysterious illness and is dying. But Lestat bites them and turns them into a vampire. Mona developed extraordinary powers, while Lestat receives inquiries about the disease. He also falls in love with Rowan. Lestat comes to track down the mysterious Taltos, which seem to be responsible for the disease. After the dramatic finale it comes to a happy end.
Review
The book was criticized by the New York Times as " melodramatic " and for his unoriginal end. Entertainment Weekly gave the book the grade of " D" ( equivalent to a " four" in the German grading system) and criticized the " unintentionally comical ", bordering on self-parody characters. On amazon.com, the book was rated with a score of three out of five stars, where the number and intensity of the negative reviews Rice shocked.
Answer by Rice
Rice reacted furiously to the negative reviews. They even wrote a 1,200 -word review in which they themselves missed 5 - stars and critics accused of abusing amazon.com "a public urinal for lies." The accusation of not wanting to leave their works proofread, she rejected by them as already high class looked at her writing and literary arts compared with the singing talents of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti: " When one writes with such devotion, one would have no disruptive heckling. "
Rice's review was later deleted from amazon.com. On your website noticed Rice that they still hurt from the supposedly " uninformed criticism" feels and their supporters for the " faithful help " during this time thanks.