Negra Zeta: Vittorio el Vampiro (Series #205) (Paperback)

from dakobstah

Although it will never hold the same place in my heart that "Interview with the Vampire" does this book is the best written of all of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. It is shorter but more carefully edited and tightly plotted. This book restored my faith in the Vampire Chronicles in the wake of "...

from johnmischief

I really got into this novel. It has all of Anne Rice's trademark prose,whilst keeping her descriptive tendancies in check. Also i found it refreshing to read a totally new vampires tale,without referencing her characters from the chronicles. As in Memnoch the devil, Rice explores the dynamics be...

from Aloel

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures -- a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vitto...

from thioviolight

It was nice revisiting the vampires of Anne Rice, and though Vittorio is not as good as the earlier Vampire Chronicles, I still enjoyed it more than later books like Merrick. I enjoyed reading Rice's lush descriptions and loved the Italian setting of the novel. It was great for a little escape.

from Kassilem

Even though this was a short book, I expected more than I received here. There wasn't much to the story besides how Vittorio became a vampire, which in itself felt a little disjointed for me. And I didn't get a sense of who Vittirio rally was. This story was all action and not much emotion or tho...