I read "Lasher" by Rice and I was so surprised that after I finished the book I went around being surprised for a while and couldn't quite muster the courage to pick up another book.Woodland Nymph wrote:Anne Rice is my favorite author, and her vampire novels are superb. They actually ruined vampire fiction for me in a way, because I have never been able to find anything else I like as much.
I don't think I've ever been struck with such a huge helping of infidelity, incest, sex, blood, sex, and sex before. It's not about vampires, yet had to mention it.
But, I'll give it to Rice. She knows how to make solid, rounded characters like nobody's business. Her vampires have to be among the most compelling ever written, second only to Dracula.