Search - Merrick (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 7)

One of the characters in this series that I just LOVE to hate. This woman is hard core and scary as hell, but this book was a fabulous read. I'm a fan of the author and she didn't disappoint me with this one.

Merrick Mayfair, a sultry, hard-drinking octoroon beauty whose voodoo can turn the toughest vampire into a marionette dancing to her merry, scary tune. In Merrick, Anne Rice brings back three of her most wildly popular characters--the vampires Lestat and Louis and the dead vampire child Claudia--and introduces them to the world of her Mayfair Witches book series.

Vampire David Talbot lobbies Merrick to call Claudia's spirit and slake Louis's guilt, but Talbot winds up in the grip of an obsession with the witch. You see, Talbot, unlike most vampires, lived 70 years as a human, so his sexual response to humans is still as strong as his blood thirst. Merrick can cast spells to make men crave her, and Talbot is tormented.

In this mesmerizing new novel,Rice demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and creation of myth and magic,as she weaves together two of her most compelling worlds-those of the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches.

another vampire book by an awesome writer..

Anne Rice has a huge following of devoted readers and she provides her fans with abundant amounts of generally consistently well-written novels. From what I can remember of Rice's work, she has a few different supernatural themes: the vampire books, the Mayfair books and the Taltos series. (She has written other books of various genres, some under psuedonyms, etc., but this is not a review of her as a writer.) I am not one of her devoted fans, I personally tend to buy and read her books when I am slightly desperate and really need to find something that will provide me with an engrossing read - something that I and my family tend to call "airplane books."

Rice is a talented writer and, as I said above, it comes through in her work. She seems to have researched her subjects well, and she has created worlds with intricate detail. She easily sets aside the veil of disbelief.

She herself is a Catholic and it appears to me that she is very well-educated and observant of her religion and it permeates throughout her books.

From what I recall of Merrick, it is a bit of a blend between her vampire and her Mayfair series. I find this book interesting because Merrick comes from the African American branch of the Mayfair family. And with all of Rice's books, you get the heavy, musky, steamy New Orleans atmosphere.