The Vampire Armand
Magnificent and electrifying, this new volume in the "Vampire Chronicles" returns to the glittering story of Armand Lestat, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven at the eighteenth-century Theater des Vampires in Paris. Snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in...
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Magnificent and electrifying, this new volume in the "Vampire Chronicles" returns to the glittering story of Armand Lestat, mesmerizing leader of the vampire coven at the eighteenth-century Theater des Vampires in Paris. Snatched from the steppes of Russia as a child, and sold as a slave in Renaissance Venice, Armand's story sweeps through several hundred years, to New Orleans at the end of the twentieth century, where he lies waiting for immortality, and the legend continues to grow...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099271475 (0099271478)
Publish date: 1999
Publisher: Arrow Books
Pages no: 520
Edition language: English
Series: The Vampire Chronicles 0 (#6)
I am giving this book two stars only because Anne Rice is a talented author, and I can’t bear to give this a single-star rating (though, honestly, it might deserve it). Man, what a bummer. I loved the last four volumes in this series, but this was a mess. Written after a short hiatus from the Vamp...
It is Armand’s turn to recount his history to David to be recorded for posterity If Lestat and Louis’s books are digitised, he could always just copy and paste the relevant sections. I am not a fan of this book, there’s very little about if I find even remotely enjoyable and the few steps forw...
The best book in the Vampire Chronicles thus far. And to think I was super bummed that Lestat wasn't the star of the story. LOVE the story of Amadeo.
Lestat lies in a coma-like sleep in a chapel and while vampires gathers around him, Armand tells his story to David Talbot, Lestat’s former Talamascan fledgling. Armand takes us with him through his childhood in Kiev; from where he is kidnapped and sold to slavery, to Venice where Marius saves him a...