Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles, #9)

Blackwood Farm (The Vampire Chronicles, #9)

by Anne Rice

774 pages· ISBN 9780099446729

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Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.

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    How does Quinn Blackwood's upbringing on a grand, isolated Southern estate shape his understanding of family duty, legacy, and the inescapable weight of the past?

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    In what ways does the presence of Goblin—Quinn’s companion spirit and doppelganger—serve as a psychological manifestation of his inner turmoil, guilt, and suppressed desires?

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    Anne Rice famously weaves themes of Catholicism, guilt, and damnation throughout her vampire mythology; how does Quinn reconcile his deeply ingrained religious morality with his new reality as a creature of the dark?

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