Vampire Armand Anne Rice

In the modern-day installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up wonderful worlds to convey to us the tale of Armand – perpetually young, with the face of a Botticelli angel.

Armand, who was first regarded in all his darkish glory greater than two decades ago in the now-traditional Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the unconventional that set up its writer worldwide as an astounding storyteller and writer of magical realms.

Now, we go along with Armand throughout the centuries to the Kyiv Rus of his boyhood – a ruined town under Mongol dominion – and to historic Constantinople, in which Tartar raiders promote him into slavery.

And in an astounding palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance, we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the wonderful vampire Marius, who masquerades amongst humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the present of vampiric blood.

As the unconventional races to its climax, shifting through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today’s New Orleans, we see its perpetually inclined and romantic hero compelled to pick out among his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.