Book Reviews of Blackwood Farm (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 9)

There are very few books out there that can force me to stay up at ungodly hours just to be able to finish it up... this was one of them. Blackwood Farm is full of what you might expect from Rice: erotica, history and attention to details. A great read!

I really enjoyed this book.

I started reading Rice's vampire books when I was about 14 years old and just adored them. Somewhere in the series, fifth book I think, I lost interest and stopped reading them.

After reading this one I will keep up with this series again.

Another of Rice's Vampire books, this one is very enjoyable. Lestat is back as a mentor of sorts to a young man named Quinn Blackwood. I was unexpectedly pleased with this book. It was a return to her style of Gothic Louisiana Swamp Revival Drama.

Although this book is included in the Vampire Chronicles it is a bit different than any of her others in this series. Unlike the others this book doesn't 100% focus on vampires, there are witches and ghosts included, which in my opinion made the book a lot more interesting. There is truly no end to Anne Rice's imagination. This book focuses on two different families (the Mayfair witches included)tells a little bit of their seedy past and follows a new vampire. I thought it was a very good read and because of this book I went on to read the Mayfair Witches series.

Bleh. Tarquin takes spoiled, self-centered rich boy with entitlement issues to an extreme. Yes, Lestat is quite selfish and spoiled as well, but at least it's packaged up in a lovable personality, so that you WANT to indulge him and spoil him a little yourself. With Quinn, the only desire I had was to send him to the time-out chair for his numerous tantrums and endless bellyaching. If you can suffer through page after page of his rambling and whining, by all means, read away. I wish I had skipped straight to the parts with Lestat instead of slogging through all the childishness of Quinn.

True Anne Rice style. Suspenseful, with plenty of twists and turns.

Not like the Anne Rice of old.. however, a good read. It was great to be able to resurrect some of old story-lines and add details. From the point alone, the book was worthwile. I did enjoy it.

I was shocked to love this book. It wasn't at all what I thought it was going to be. A great mystery, character piece and downright pleasant read. I took it on vacation and was sorry when I had finished.

Set in the contemporary south, it references back to earlier times and makes you wonder where it will eventually take you. I've definitely added more of Rice's books to my "TBR" list.

This was a pretty good book; standard Anne Rice; very descriptive, historical settings; a quick read.

One of my favorite Anne Rice books! If you liked The Witching Hour, you'll love Blackwood Farm.

One of Anne Rice's best, suspenseful vampire novel.

Rice fans will love it

good book

if you liked witching hour,Lasher & the rest of the Mayfair Witches you will enjoy this one!

I've never been a big fan of the Vampire Chronicles. I liked the Mayfair Witches series better. However, this book is a mix between her Vampire Chronicles and her Mayfair Witches books. The two series comes together in this hauntingly tragic tale about a man who gets 'turned' against his will and has to give up everything and everyone he loves while he gets his thirst for blood under control...and is left with an entity he at first has mixed feelings about, but then it quickly becomes a danger to those he loves. That's where the Mayfair Witches part comes in. This story is well written and is definitely an unforgettable one.

Loved this vampire series can't wait to read more of her books..

I really liked this book, but I have liked all of her vampire books.

I really like her books, having read most of them. A great story teller and always a twist towards the end. A detailed story and well written.

In this luminous novel, Anne Rice fuses her seductive vampire legend and her lore of the mayfair witches to give us a world of classic deep south luxury and ancestral secrets.

"Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, a spirit known as Goblin, a spirit from a dreamworld that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself." As the novel moves backward and forward in time, from Quinn's boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present-day New Orleans, from ancient Pompeii to nineteenth-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the specter that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds."

From the Library Journal:

"Fledgling vampire Quinn Blackwood makes a desperate appeal to the older, stronger Lestat to save his loved ones from Goblin, a doppelganger out to destroy them. Since Quinn entered the dark world of the undead, the once caring and protective Goblin has amassed tremendous strength and a ruthlessness that cannot be controlled. Lestat is intrigued but refuses to make a decision until Quinn tells his life story. Slowly, the dark, Gothic settings and eccentric characters that make Rice's fiction so fascinating emerge. Quinn, along with his mirror image, Goblin, resides on Blackwood Farm, an immense Louisiana estate. His was an isolated childhood but not an unhappy one. Then, while in his teens, he learns of an ancestor's horrifying crime, one that continues to attract vengeful ghosts. The brightest light in Quinn's life is Mona Mayfair, a delicate, pretty girl who blithely admits to being a witch. With the introduction of Mona, Rice deftly brings together her two popular series, the "Vampire Chronicles" and the "Mayfair Witches." The result is at least as good as Rice's earliest novels because she centers her story on new characters with interesting stories of their own. Using lush, voluptuous prose, Rice tells a complex and mesmerizing story.

I enjoyed this book a great deal and I felt it was a great way to bring the two series together, and end them both. Her first stuff was better than this, but it's a decent ending to it all.

Another great ghost story by the bewitching storyteller Anne Rice. If you love the Vampire Chronicles, as well as the Mayfair Witches, this is a must read!

Just wasn't up to the others in the Mayfair Witches series....

Really good book, just drags on a little too long.

626 pages of her best. I truly loved the tale of Quinn Blackwood who dared to approach the Vampire Lestat for help in doing away with a spirit he calls Goblin. The Mayfair Witches are an important part of this story too!

This is a milder Anne Rice book. It is about a young man that has grown up with a spirit and now wants to get rid of him. Lestat plays a part in this one too. It's a good read!

Classic Ann Rice.

notrtivv as good as the witching and earlier vampire chronicles but when you focus on his preternastural skin matching that of the cfamo fpr the upmteenth time, i don't think Ms rice loves lestat and other vampsas she used to she's on autpilot. However the narratve is still interesting and has interesting twists.

anne rice at her best - very louisiana

This is a little more erotic than any of the previous Vampire Chronicle books. A lot of sexual content but if you're ok with that...its a good read.

Welcome to Blackwood Farm; soaring white columns, spacious dining rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, a spirit known as Goblin. When Quinn is made a vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, Goblin becomes even more vampiric and terrifying that Quinn himself. Desperate, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the specter that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp--and to the secrets it holds...

SYNOPSIS
In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.

"Amazon.com
In the past few years, many fans have sworn off Anne Rice, flinging her later novels against the wall with cries of "First draft!" and "Never again!"
But these same fans may want to take a chance on her Southern gothic Blackwood Farm, a fast-paced and erotically charged, though uneven, novel of the Vampire Chronicles. Blackwood Farm has an unusual flaw: it isn't long enough."

Great Vampire Chronicles book! Anne Rice is an excellent author!