If you're an Anne Rice fan you will not be disappointed in this installment of Lestat's undead life. She just leaves you wanting for more.

Another wonderfully written novel by Anne Rice. Thrilling and dark.

great book from a great series!

book four in the Vampire Chronicles and certainly one of the stranger ones. Lestat switching his mind into a human body? "Surely not!", you say? but it is so. one of my favorite anne rice books!

Good read. Not my normal Sci-fi book but was a good change of pace.

This is one of the best books in the Vampire Chronicles. I love the beauty of Rice's prose and this novel is an adventure that LeStat will never forget! I enjoyed it very much!

In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic Interview with the Vampire and continued with The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale - everything he has come to believe and feel safe with - is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. The Tale of the Body Thief is told with the unique - the mesmerizing - passion, power, color, and invention that distinguish the novels of Anne Rice.

I have always, since a child, for some stange reason enjoyed vampire stories... perhaps my own shadow of "Dark Shadows"... I love reading Rice's prose as she describes things I don't want to imagine!

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Really did not like this. I loved The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned, but this story just didn't work for me.

Anne Rice does it again! How would you handle a deal where you gave up your immortal body and powers to live as a human again. The exchange was only supposed to be for 3 days. Then the body thief took off.

The Tale of the Body Thief is definetly one of my favorite books of all time. I found it better than all 3 of the books before it..and may find myself reading it again in the future. That's saying a lot, as I've never reread a book in my life. I'm a bit dissapointed that Rice will no longer be writing paranormal/horror books, but hey, that is her decision. Maybe one day she'll change her mind, we can hope right?

Full of surprises! Another of Anne Rices Best! Again 5 stars!

ISBN 034538475X - Never having read any of Rice's Vampire Chronicles, I was happy to find that this book does stand alone - no previous knowledge required.

Lestat, almost a drama queen in his moments of self-loathing, is approached by a man named Raglan James, who proposes a trade. He will let Lestat be human again, something Lestat believes he wants, by swapping bodies. It is to be a short-term swap, and Lestat overlooks every sign that this could be a bad idea. His friends, human and vampire, warn him against it; James admits to being a liar and a thief... and Lestat takes the risk anyway. How horribly wrong it goes and how it is righted is an interesting story you'll just have to read to discover.

There are a few wonderfully well written parts - most happening while Lestat is human. For hilarity, there's Lestat in his borrowed human body dealing with the things he'd forgotten, especially the "potty" issues. His repulsion is immeasurable and funny as heck. His short lovestory with Gretchen, a nun who nurses him back to health, is unexpectedly poignant and touching and their eventual reunion is heartbreaking. Finally, the way Lestat repays David Talbot for his help in reclaiming his own body is nearly perfect, ruined only by David's forgiveness. That, the very end, is the only part of the book I genuinely disliked - if Lestat's big lesson is to be that he loves being the devil that he is, I would have preferred a less happy ending. Still, read it - and when Lestat suggests that you quit reading, perhaps you should.

- AnnaLovesBooks

Yet another great novel by Anne Rice. Hard to put this one down.

I love all of Anne Rice's books.

If you are a fan of Anne Rice and her Vampire stories, this is another great read of hers.

excellent

What happens when a body thief swaps bodies with the Vampire Lestat.

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