a new direction for the vampire chronicles (Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of Vampires - Anne Rice)

Member Name: edax

Product:	Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of Vampires - Anne Rice
Date:	27/06/00 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: excellent, well written and engaging, oh and it has vampires in it

Disadvantages: none really

This book is the first by anne rice to introduce a completely new vampire into the chronicles with the focus entirely upon them. This is a much shorter novel than many of the previous novels, but it is euqally as good. It paints a sucinct and well told story of the young boy vittorio who was turned into a vampire in medieval Italy.

It is more a love story perhaps than many of the others, but it is still fast paced and wonderfully written in a fast and flowing style that anne rice is loved for by many.

It has no links to the other characters nor their times, although it is set within their world. Anne rice wanted to add a new dimension with this novel it seems, and i believe that she has done this. There are no grand feats of vampire power or the vanity of many of the other characters here. It is somewhat simpler. Well worth the read, and you certainly dont need to have read all of the other books to appreciate or understand this book.

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