Servant of the Bones - Anne Rice

I have read a few books by Anne Rice before and found I enjoyed them greatly. This was the main reason for buying this book. The beginning of the book introduces Jonathan; he is a writer and well known in his field of Academic writing. In order that he can have some quiet time to write his next book he goes to a secluded little cabin, however while he is there he gets very ill and it seems likely he will die. Azriel a ghost/spirit is seeking out the writer so he can get him to write out his life story, so when he finds him sick Azriel nurses Jonathan back to health. When Jonathan has recovered sufficiently Azriel starts to tell his tail. The story is told in the ...  Read the complete review

There is a fair amount of plot in thsi book, but I found that the only thing I wanted to know about was how the servant of the bones came to be, and really everything else is just a diversion from this history. Anne Rice is quite obsessed with the origins of her ghosts and monsters (an obsession I seem to have acquired from reading her books) and this one is particularly gruesome, once you get to the truth. Once again, Rice draws on an historicla setting to great efeect, pitting the ancient past against the confused present. This seems to have become something of a formula with her - start in the persent and delve back to find some nasty beginning in an ancient ...  Read the complete review

As I have now read all of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles to date, I decided to read some of her other work. I tried her book The Feast of all Saints, but gave up on it after a few pages. I just couldn’t get into it. So here I am, having just finished her book Servant of the Bones instead. The cover shows a gold skull laid on red velvet, with a thin lair of cobweb over it. This actually does give a clue, as it is significant to the story (different book to what dooyoo are displaying). I already knew that the book was about a ghost, and that Anne Rice had based the character on Antonio Banderas. Not himself, but because of the way he ...  Read the complete review