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Blackwood Farm - Anne Rice (CD)
Title: Blackwood Farm Title: Blackwood Farm Author: Anne Rice Genre: Horror Format: CD, 5 CDs Synopsis: 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 doppelgnger, "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 doppelgnger 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. From the Hardcover edition. Review: Library Journal (October 15, 2003) Quinn Blackwood, the young heir of the large Blackwood estate, recounts the saga of his family's dark and mysterious past to Lestat, explains the unusual relationship he has with his lifetime spirit-companion "Goblin," and concludes with the tale of how he was made a vampire. He entreats Lestat to help him deal with Goblin, whose character has menacingly changed since becoming a blood-hunter. Rice includes in Blackwood Farm characters from both the "Vampire Chronicles" and the "Mayfair Witches" series, but she fails to build much suspense and finishes with a rushed and unsatisfying ending. Quinn's florid and overemotional speech patterns are at odds with the novel's contemporary setting, but reader David Pittu makes excellent work of the melodramatic language and varied voices and accents, imbuing the work with a style and pathos that it may otherwise lack. Recommended, as it is likely to be popular despite the flaws.-Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.