FICTION
Released: Feb. 14, 2012
"Despite some of the creakiness of the machinery, Rice finds new permutations in an old tale."
The "gift" of the title refers to a werewolf who acts more like Batman than like a bestial agent of disorder, for he goes about rescuing damsels (and guys) in distress and in the process killing the bad guys.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2010
"A bullet of a book--and an absolute bull's eye."
Murder and mayhem are served up alongside metaphysical musings in Rice's latest (
Angel Time, 2009, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 29, 2009
"Angelically inspiring. Devilishly clever. "
Time travel, ultraviolence and medieval madness--divine intervention rendered fantastically by Rice (
Called Out of Darkness, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: March 4, 2008
"Rice's Christ is both convincing and compelling. Another winner."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 31, 2003
"Though one wishes to give the recently widowed author a free ride, Blood Canticle is as gaily slipshod, gushy, and first-draftish as Merrick."
Rice in short form after the lengthy
Blackwood Farm (2002), this time featuring characters shuffled together from the Vampire Lestat series and the Mayfair Witches series.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 31, 2002
"With a little nip in the night, Anne's fangs offer us the Dark Gift."
The Vampire Chronicles Annual Rice Report on vampirism in Louisiana (
Blood and Gold, 2001, etc.) finds Queen Anne's tiara firmly in place for a sweeping plot.
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