Blackwood Farm

This is a great novel. Blackwood Farm, with its grand Southern mansion, harbours a family of ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a tyro bloodhunter whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit - a goblin succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the ubiquitous Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality...Blackwood Farm is the ninth volume of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles series. After a number of her previous volumes have been given the Hollywood treatment (Interview with a Vampire and The Queen of the Damned) it almost seems that she has switched into 'writing for the movies' mode - every scene is so vivid that you can almost picture the boom mic accidentally appearing in shot.While her work is as strong and calculated as it has always been, reading Blackwood Farm you can't help but think that Rice is now a one-trick-pony. While there is much more to her work than stories of bloodsucking fiends, I am getting to the point where I want more from her work - I have grown up on her books and she has failed to grow with me.Blackwood Farm is exceptionally well written and it's great to see Rice on such good form. It's just that, for me, it's time she did something a little different to break away from the realm of the vampires.This is a great Novel, other novel's I like are Micheal Crichton's Prey an Paul Omeziri's Descent into Illusions.

I Have to admit, I was getting worried that my favorite author was running out of ideas. I really tried to like her last few novels and they were okay, but certainly not on par with her earlier works. Blackwood Farm was truly an enjoyable read. Great characters, great plot, great story and great ending. If you loved her first five chronicles or the Mayfair series you wont be dissapointed.

I got this book about four days ago, and havent put it down save to go to work and sleep. I have always enjoyed Rice's books, and Blackwood Farm is yet another masterpiece.Around the middle of the book I thought Id probably give it three stars, but the ending of it has made me change it back to five.If your looking for a continuation of the early vampire chornicle style of writing - you wont find it in this book. If your looking for a lavish story of a tortured young man and his journeys as a "Blood Hunter" - then you have found it!