Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this ambitious, rich vampire novel of vision and power, the indomitable vampire hero, Lestat de Lioncourt, returns ... caught up in an urgent and fundamental quest to understand the origins of the Undead and the deeper meanings of existence for both mortals and immortals. “In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea . . . And all the world was shaken . . .” Now Lestat, Prince of the vast tribe of the undead, finds himself at war with a strange, ancient, otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of his immortal body and spirit, and it is through this perilous and profound struggle that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times: a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent in the Atlantic Ocean. As we learn of the mighty, resonant powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit. An exhilarating novel that deepens Rice’s vampire mythology as it brings together the ancient worlds and beings of the Vampire Chronicles and opens up to us a whole new universe of characters, history, storytelling, and legend.
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13 primary books#12 in The Vampire Chronicles
The Vampire Chronicles is a 13-book series with 13 primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by Anne Rice.
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Another entry on par with the previous ones. Rice goes out of this world, literally, to go even further back on the Vampire mythos, revealing a host of new information regarding their origin.
Rhoshamandes is again the villain of the story, and Rice still does a bad job at painting him as such. But all the other characters are they usual self.
The vampire council is establishing the rules to govern its kind when a new threat present to their existence. A new type of supernatural entity appears, and it is unclear what their goals are. A few encounters with them and vampires have turned into bloodshed, but that might just have been a mistake.
The plot was confusing at the beginning but stablized before I gave up on the book. Intriguing ideas and concepts and alot of ‘Is the author making a statement here?'
Alot of references to prior books, many of which I couldn't stay invested in the story and others that were just to creepy for my taste. I may reconsider reading them..
Was there really a need for introducing aliens in the books about vampires?
Once again there are lots of new characters. However, they suffer the same treatment as in the previous book. They hardly have any characterization and they just feel flat and one-faced. It does not feel like t hey had any built up and might as well have been not existent. Atlantis had so little to do with the story, and it would have interesting if this side of the story was expanded and done more coherently.
The only vampire who had some characterization was Lestat, while all the other vampires that used to be so compelling and charming in previous books became just background scenery in most scenes. There was a try to create so tension and drama with Armand's hostility towards the Replimiods. But the potential conflict just got nowhere, it was neither resolved nor acted upon.
As for Amel, he was more intriguing as a spirit summoned by Mekare and Maharet, than as a Replimiod. There was some mystery to him, which was shattered in this book.
