Helpful Score: 4
Good read and keeps you on your toes!
Barbara A. (barbwired) reviewed Pandora (New Tales of the Vampires, Bk 1) on + 130 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded cafe, where David meets Pandora. She is 2,000 years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to 18th-century France to 20th-century Paris and New Orleans.
Helpful Score: 2
Anne Rice is always a good read. This installment to the series met expectations.
Helpful Score: 2
Classic Anne Rice! Excellent, thought-provoking book. Vampire-lover or no, the historical information is amazing.
Helpful Score: 2
The title character is a highborn woman of Augustan Rome who later names herself after the Pandora of mythology, opening her own box of surprises. Sitting in a modern-day Paris cafe in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the vampire Pandora accepts the challenge of recounting her history and immediately sets to work, filling the blank pages of an elegant leatherbound notebook....
