By Anne Rice
The Vampire Chronicles proceed with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, during which the good vampire Marius returns.
The golden-haired Marius, actual baby of the Millennia, as soon as mentor to the vampire Lestat, continually and ceaselessly the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, finds in his personal extreme but intimate voice the secrets and techniques of his two-thousand-year existence.
Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, abducted and made a "blood god" by means of the Druids, Marius turns into the embittered protector of Akasha and Enkil, Queen and King of the vampires, in whom the middle of the supernatural race resides.
We stick to him via his heartbreaking abandonment of the vampire Pandora. via him we see the autumn of pagan Rome to the Emperor Constantine and the terrible sack of the everlasting urban itself by the hands of the Visigoths.
Bravely, Marius seeks a brand new civilization in the middle of glittering Constantinople, in simple terms to satisfy with the blood drinker Eudoxia. We see him eventually returning to his loved Italy, the place after the horrors of the Black demise, he's restored via the great thing about the Renaissance. We see him develop into a painter dwelling dangerously but fortunately between mortals, giving his center to the good Botticelli, to the bewitching courtesan Bianca, and to the mysterious younger apprentice Armand.
Moving from Rome to Florence, Venice, and Dresden, and to the English citadel of the key scholarly order of the Talamasca, the unconventional reaches its dramatic finale in our personal time, deep within the jungle the place Marius, having informed his lifestyles tale, seeks a few degree of justice from the oldest vampires on this planet.
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I do not wish to waste time on pretense. If he is like Linda, he is going to do some talking. If he is human, he has a funny way of showing it. Either way I believe he will die in this desert tonight. I may even drink his blood, although I have not fed from anyone since Kalika brought me back from the edge of death. My hunger simply seems to have vanished. I gesture with my weapon. A million stars shine down on us. I see them all, more than a mortal can see with a medium-size telescope. "Move away from the car," I say.
Once more I reach out. This time I touch his left ear, but before he can swat my hand away, I pinch it. Rather hard, I think. He is in pain. "Talk," I say softly. "Stop," he pleads, as I force him to bend over. "Just a slight tug of my hand," I say, "and your ear will separate from your head. I am very strong. So talk to me, while you still can. " He squeals as I twist his ear. " He gasps for air. "She is just someone I know. She came to me after I killed the first girl. She said I could work for her.
He glances up from the game. He doesn't even realize I interrupted it. "Goodbye," he says. There is a plane leaving for Phoenix in fifty minutes and I get on it. Linda's newsletters have told me where the FOF convention is being held—a Holiday Inn beside a busy freeway. Once in Phoenix, I rent a Jeep and drive to the hotel, but all the rooms are taken. Taking a room at a nearby hotel, I shower and then go for a walk in the desert. Perhaps the UFO freaks took a hotel near the edge of town so they could look at the night sky.