Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Pages: 640
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 3.9 x 1.4

ISBN: 0345443683
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345443687
ASIN: 0345443683

Publication Date: September 30, 2003
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Amazon.com Review
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. Many of its triumphs and tragedies demand more development than they receive. Motivations are sometimes unlikely or unexplained, and the ending is far too rushed.

Blackwood Farm introduces Quinn Blackwood, the sexy, eccentric young gentleman who becomes both a vampire and the heir to the Blackwood estate. All his life, Quinn has been haunted by Goblin, a doppelgaenger no one else can see--or believe in. But Goblin is real, and he is becoming maliciously tangible, strengthened by the blood that Quinn unwillingly drinks. Quinn's only hope of liberation from his increasingly dangerous doppelgaenger is to find the legendary vampire Lestat. But Lestat has vowed to destroy any vampire who sets foot in New Orleans....

Blackwood Farm features characters from both the Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches series, but this self-contained novel makes a good entry point for newcomers to Anne Rice's fictional world (however, Vampire Chronicle virgins really should start with Interview With the Vampire, the first in the series and arguably the finest vampire novel of the 20th century). --Cynthia Ward

Product Description
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.

Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, 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 doppelgaenger, “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world 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 doppelgaenger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself.

As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn’s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.

A story of youth and promise, of loss and the search for love, of secrets and destiny, Blackwood Farm is Anne Rice at her mesmerizing best.

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1 out of 5 stars

The only thing that sucked was the book! July 15, 2008
Mainframe (Ireland)
I will endeavour to put my disappointment in this book into words.

In my opinion Anne Rice seems to have no direction to her writing of the New Vampire Chronicles, it is the only conclusion I can make. I kept reading them hoping against hope that after such a long time between the original series and the current one, she just need time to get herself fully immersed in that world again. However, this book just blew that grace period out the water and confirms what I have suspected for a long time; this new series is junk.

I cannot believe I wasted good money on this book; the central character (Quinn Blackwood) is a spineless fop who forns over his grandmother (there was a ridiculously lengthy description of her) and has the really annoying habit of falling in love with anything that moves. His character is not even remotely interesting. The only character that may, I repeat, MAY have saved this plot-starved book was the fact that Lestat made a return. However his character is so completely watered down and absent for most of the book that it really was not worth including him in this tale at all.

The bottom line with this book is that it has little to no direction and what plot it did achieve never paid off in the end, weak new characters, original characters that were completely underused, rambling lengthy descriptions that have no point to them, and a complete waste of my time.

This was the last book I bought in the new Vampire Chronicles; I'll stick to the originals.
Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles)

5 out of 5 stars

I adored this book. March 3, 2008
Stacy M. Davis (Andover, NJ USA)
This is my first Anne Rice book, so I don't have anything to compare the story with. I bought Interview with the Vampire and tried to read it a couple of times and was having trouble getting into it (although I wil definitely give it another try now). When I bought Blackwood Farm, I didn't realize that it was part of The Vampire Chronicles. The Entertainment Weekly quote on the front about it being a ghost story was what attracted me.

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book so much. I absolutely fell in love with all the characters and I loved the story Quinn had to tell. I am a huge Stephen King fan, and I read a lot of Alice Hoffman and things of her ilk, as well as any memoir I can get my hands on. Something about this book was just so enjoyable to read. It was very different from my norm, but I am so anxious to read more about Quinn, Mona, and the Mayfair witches, as well as the earlier Vampire books, that I only wish there were more hours in a day to read.

4 out of 5 stars

Great addition to legacy of the Vampire Lestat January 8, 2008
Joseph M. Handibode (Norfolk VA)
Story: Its a pretty good story. I wish there were more action and fights between the vampires. But its great to see the interaction between Ann Rice's Mayfair witch books and Vampire chronicle books. Its a great addition to the other vampire books. But it doesn't surpass any of the previous books.
Characters: Lestat as always is my favorite vampire character. Its about time that Lestat finds someone who loves him back.
I hope the next Lestat book will have more action and drama in it like vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned books. They were the best of Ann Rice.

5 out of 5 stars

Ingenious November 25, 2007
Phillip E. Krantz (Albany, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Let me start out by saying I am not going to tell the story that Anne wrote for this book. But believe me when I tell you it was ingenious. Anne has a knack for ripples of frission which she incorporates into her stories. One her best examples of this is in here second book "Feast of All Saints." There a young boy wakes up to a man in the bedroom of his first love. Frission is actually an understatemt oh how well Anne conjures this scene.

Anne also has a way to leave purportedly important questions asked of the reader unanswered. This is another knack she has and I am going to post my answer to one of those unanswered questions from her book. That is "why is Tarquin always referred to as little?" Tarquin is puzzled why he is referred to that way by others being that he is seventeen six foot four and growing. He has a hunch why but he doesn't really know. The reader is invited to supply a answer as well.

Anne's favorite Dicken's story in this work is his "The Old Curiosity Shop." The central character in that work is Little Nell. So I believe this gives the reader the answer to Tarquin's question. Well because Anne you been reading about Little Nell. But that is the beauty of this novel. The reader is asked to participate in a character's resolvement of confusion many times.

Anne uses another device in this work posing to the reader the true meaning of egregious. Well she and I do not agree on how she used the word often. She asks us to identify where we find egregiousness in the story. Her characters only get it half right half the time. Remember though Anne is playful in this work and that is why I give this her five stars.

Well done Anne.

4 out of 5 stars

Surprisingly Good November 23, 2007
Cassidhe (Harper Woods, Michigan United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book was very good. Some of my favorite books were written by Anne Rice, but I have been very disappointed with some of her later writing. I was very hesitant to read this book, but I was pleasantly surprised with how hard I found it to put down - I couldn't wait to find out how the various mysteries unfolded. This book reminded me a lot of "Interview with the Vampire" in the style it was written. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because there were a couple of minor things that happened in the book that I didn't feel were fully explained or that didn't make complete sense. Also, as another reviewer pointed out, Quinn did fall "in love" repeatedly, but I'll give him a pass since he was also very young - although it could be a little annoying at times. I will definitely read the next book in this series.

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