2013 Anne Rice Challenge Finished

2013 Anne Rice Challenge hosted by The Towering Pile....

Rules: 

• Ebooks are fine. Audiobooks are fine as long as they are the unabridged versions.
• Rereads and crossovers with other challenges are fine.
• You can change your level at any time.
• The challenge goes from January 1st to December 31st, 2013.
• If you read, for example, the edition that has the first 3 Vampire Chronicles books together in one volume, that still counts as 3. We're going by how the books were originally published.
• All books written by Anne Rice count, not just the Vampire Chronicles, including those written under a pseudonym.
• You can sign up any time from now until November 30, 2013.

Levels:

• Louis de Pointe du Lac (1 to 5 books)
• Lestat de Lioncourt (6 to 10 books)
• Armand (11 to 15 books)
• Marius de Romanus (16 to 20 books)
• Maharet (21 to 25)
• Akasha (26 to 30) 

My goal was to complete level Louis Pointe du Lac: read 1-5 books. I never take the easy way out with my reading challenges so I would not register this challenge as complete till I had read 5 books.

I completed this challenge the 11th of October when I finished The Witching Hour.

My list of books:

1. Interview with the Vampire
2. Merrick
3. The Vampire Lestat
4. The Queen of the Damned
5. The Witching Hour

All posts for this challenge are HERE.

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

In this engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spanning four centuries, we meet a great dynasty of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being. From Goodreads.

Anne Rice is one of my favourite authors and I have read some of her books but as it is over the last twenty years I can't always remember which I have read. This one I read about 6 years ago.
It is a very worthy reread. It is an epic family saga which doesn't end after this book. Be prepared for dark magic, it is no light humorous witchy read.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge
Serious Readers 2013
Tower Teams Read 2013-2
2013 Paranormal Reading Challenge (witch)
2013 Ebook Challenge
2013 Anne Rice Challenge
2013 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge
TEA & BOOKS Reading Challenge 2013
2013 Mammoth Book Challenge
A Book A Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge

The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.
Akasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well.
If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga. From Goodreads.

This is the 3rd book in the Vampire Chronicles and it is best to read the two first books before this one. I like the two first books better but this comes in close behind. I think I read it before, but it is quite a few years ago and I couldn't remember very much of it. I will continue to read the chronicles.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge
Serious Readers 2013
Tower Teams Read 2013-2
2013 Ebook Challenge
2013 Paranormal Reading Challenge (vampires)
2013 Anne Rice Challenge
2013 Sequel Reading Challenge
2013 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge
2013 Mammoth Book Challenge
A Book A Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge
FrightFall RaT 2013

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling. From Goodreads.

I think this is a re-read but it is quite a few years ago that I read it the first time. After Interview With The Vampire it is interesting to hear Lestat's side of the story. He is very different in this book than the way Louis described him in the previous book. My biggest problem with this book is that it sets an exciting scene for the next book The Queen of the Damned so I need to read that book soon.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge
Serious Readers 2013
Tower Teams Read 2013-2
2013 Ebook Challenge
2013 Sequel Reading Challenge
2013 Paranormal Reading Challenge (vampire)
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge
2013 Anne Rice Challenge
2013 Mammoth Book Challenge
September 2013 Takeover Challenge
A Book A Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay Reading Challenge

Merrick by Anne Rice

Anne Rice's richly told new novel for the first time weaves together two irresistible worlds - the witches' world and the vampires' world - in a dance of seduction, death and rebirth.
Lestat's mesmerizing friend Louis de Pointe du Lac is tortured by the memory of the child vampire Claudia, whom he loved and lost. With the help of David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca organization, Louis appeals to Merrick, the beautiful, mixed-race, illegitimate daughter of the New Orleans Mayfair clan. Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be - and her search takes her close to the edge, through blood and terror, voodoo and violence.
Sweeping from New Orleans to the Guatemalan jungle, this is vampire literature at its most hypnotic, exotic and splendid. From Goodreads.




This book is number 7 in the Vampire Chronicles. This is a re-read for me, I think I read it the first time 8 years ago. This book is about Merrick who is a Mayfair witch with quite some power. This book is not part of the Mayfair Witches series, they are just mentioned as another part of her family. this book is about Merrick and vampires. I enjoyed it and I read it quite quickly as I wanted to know what was going to happen, I couldn't quite remember from my last read.
I am at the moment reading a book here and there but for new readers of this series I would recommend starting at the beginning as there are a lot of things mentioned in this book that are from earlier books.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge
Serious Readers 2013
Tower Teams Read 2013-2
2013 Sequel Reading Challenge
2013 Anne Rice Challenge
2013 Paranormal Reading Challenge (witch)
2013 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge 

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force --- a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write. From Goodreads.

This was a re-read and I enjoyed it just as much this time around. The Vampire Chronicles are well worth reading.

This book qualifies for:
Goodreads 2013 Reading Challenge
Serious Readers 2013
Tower Teams Read 2013-2
2013 Ebook Challenge
2013 Anne Rice Challenge
2013 1st In A Series Challenge
2013 Paranormal Reading Challenge (vampire)

2013 Anne Rice Challenge Sign up

2013 Anne Rice Challenge hosted by The Towering Pile.

Rules:

• Ebooks are fine. Audiobooks are fine as long as they are the unabridged versions.
• Rereads and crossovers with other challenges are fine.
• You can change your level at any time.
• The challenge goes from January 1st to December 31st, 2013.
• If you read, for example, the edition that has the first 3 Vampire Chronicles books together in one volume, that still counts as 3. We're going by how the books were originally published.
• All books written by Anne Rice count, not just the Vampire Chronicles, including those written under a pseudonym.
• You can sign up any time from now until November 30, 2013.

Levels:

• Louis de Pointe du Lac (1 to 5 books)
• Lestat de Lioncourt (6 to 10 books)
• Armand (11 to 15 books)
• Marius de Romanus (16 to 20 books)
• Maharet (21 to 25)
• Akasha (26 to 30)

I have read quite a few of Anne Rice's books and I would like to read more, whether this will be rereads or not I am not sure.

My goal will be Louis de Pointe du Lac (1 to 5 books).

My Posts will be HERE

List of books:

1. Interview with the Vampire
2. Merrick
3. The Vampire Lestat
4. The Queen of the Damned
5. The Witching Hour