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Blood and Gold

The Vampire Chronicles 8

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Blood and Gold

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Roger Rees
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Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice.

Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his maker, the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love, Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli; the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets; and the boy he calls Amadeo (otherwise known as the Vampire Armand).

Crisscrossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice's glorious pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego, Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of those who must be kept is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.

©2016 Anne Rice (P)2016 Random House AudioBooks Fantasy Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Fiction Paranormal Ancient History

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So good I didn’t want it to end! Brilliant story and an amazing job by the narrator.

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The narrator has the most beautiful soothing voice which was perfect for this book, and the stories are so engaging and interesting. Anne Rice is such a gifted story teller and this is one of her best…

Lovely

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I loved Marius's story and his take on the timeline of the chronicles.
The Narrator was great and perfect for this book.

Pure Excellence!

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Beautifully crafted and well worth the time, however slightly let down by the prologue-epilogue story

A captivating history of the powerful "Old ones"

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, the storyline, the reading, the music in the beginning and the end. I strongly recommend this book .

Beautiful storyline

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