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Like many people, I found Interview with the Vampire to be a milestone work. I loved the book. When The Vampire Lestat came out, it was easy to overlook the fact that Lestat spends a lot of book complimenting himself. I was starved for more information on this facinating character, so I was willing to put up with it. However, I believe that once an author gets on that track, it only gets worse with time. This series is losing it's focus. The storylines are getting weaker and weaker, and Lestat worships himself more and more. I need to ask, am I the only one that sees this trend in Anne Rice's novels? I read this one for the sake of the series, but I couldn't even finish Memnoch the Devil. Whatever happened to the author of Cry to Heaven, and Interview with the Vampire? Is she still with us? I find it hard to believe that the same aritst that wrote those two books is the same one turning out these commercialized hype-novels. I was sorely disappointed. Thomas S. Finkelmeier Jr. bishop@bright.ne

Im a grat fan of anne rice and her vampire cronicles and in my opinion Tale of the body thief is one of her best. Its really thrilling and it makes you think about certain things in your live and your surroundings.

Rice proves that she is not trapped by one form nor one type of novel. In Tale of the Body Thief, Rice tells a simple 'tale' of Lestat wanting to be what he cannot, human. I love the fact that Rice doesn't hide behind the past or behind a multi-character plot, she shows that she can champion the basic novel. The twists and turns are still unexpected, but true to form. I love how she devles even deeper into who Lestat is now. None of her novels have completely dealt with who Lestat is today like this novel does. I feel that this novel is a beautiful jewel highlighting her unmistakable writing skill.A very serial novel, but the way a serial novel should be done.

Anne Rice continues her saga with the same colorful images and characters from her first three books. Lestat, wishing for just awhile to become human again, trades bodies with a mysterious man. But what he finds is far from the sunlit paradise he expected. Instead, he ends up with surprises he didn't expect....and a disaster befalls him when the human in his vampire body runs rampant across the globe.I laughed at Lestat's struggle with being human, then nearly cried at the sacrifice Gretchen tells of. (I am a pianist myself, understand.) David is still his stubborn self, but with a well-written twist that chilled me to the core when I read it. This book really covered all the bases of emotions. And the descriptions are vivid enough to make me feel as though I really am in Miami; an $8 vacation, so to speak. I highly recommend this book to anyone who had read the others. I only hope that Memnoch the Devil will continue this trend.

By far my favorite of the Vampire Chronicles, steamy, seductive, sad and passionate