Blackwood Farm
Books | Fiction / Horror
4.1
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Anne Rice
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 doppelgänger, “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 doppelgänger 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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Author
Anne Rice
Pages
544
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published Date
2002-10-29
ISBN
1400040205 9781400040209
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"This book has a bit of a backstory. As a teen I checked it out from the local library and had to hide it in my room. My parents weren't thrilled with the idea of reading about vampires, spirits, and witches. I got caught and was unable to finish the story. Fast forward fifteen years and I got my own copy! I have admired Anne Rice for years. Her passing last year left a hole in the hearts of her many fans. She had a gift for turning dark novels into beautiful masterpieces. That being said I LOVED the storyline but there were parts that dragged on. It didn't get interesting until about halfway through the book but after that I was hooked! Quinn sucked me into his life story just as he did for the Vampire Lestat."