Sanguina Cruenta
Actually I quit Anne Rice after "Queen of the Damned". I'm pretty sure I even own the Body Thief somewhere but I didn't get very far into it.
Is this one pre- or post-Catholic epiphany?
It's post (I think it just came out this year), but I think she's gone back to being somewhat non-religious, or at least gotten over whatever she was going through after hubby died.
It's like it wasn't bad, but everything was just too neat and tidy - where a normal person would have been like "OMFG.... scream, panic" or some other major emotional or physical reaction, characters in this one just sort of went along with everything like it was really no big deal.
Big giant wolf man in your yard that you've never seen before - sure lets have sex. (because you know that's a totally typical reaction to that sort of thing)
rolleyes And she totally ripped off Twilight's Bella on Edward's back through the treetops thing... it's like a part of me just wanted to die when I read that.
gonk Queen of the Damned was always my favorite, the main story line did sort of go off in a weird direction after that one, especially once they started crossing the Mayfair Witch books with Vampire ones. I remember reading the last couple and just being like... "uggghhh nooooo".
I did like some of the other stories though - Blood and Gold (Marius' story) and Pandora's were both pretty good.
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