BLOOD CANTICLE
Paige
themselves the VC (some of them) and TWH were very good. Together they
were horrible. None of the characters sounded familiar. Nothing had
the same feel as it had in previous books. I can't even put into words
how out of sync this whole book felt. The characters didn't even have
the same vibrant personality. Where was the imagery that I always
loved about her writing?!?!
Ashe
Paige,
My feelings exactly...you aren't you glad it's the last one.
Take care,
Ashe
CellarDoor
Canticle on a public forum and I thought I would post it here. I did
not write this but I agree with every single sentiment/observation in
this brilliant review. (I did email the original composer to let her
know I would be transferring this here to share with others.)
*MAJOR SPOILERS*
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Blood Canticle or AR's Bitter Little Suicide Pill of a Book
I thought I would take my sanity in my hands and buy the book and read
the very "last" of the VC series. I thought it could have some comedic
value at least. For those who are interested here is a brief rundown
of the action and the strange little book AR has written. Oh she must
be a bitter, bitter woman
The aim of the book seems to be to alienate as many of her readers
that are still left as possible. It is a two-fingered salute to
readers of every ilk, the fan girl who worships at every word
committed to paper by AR, the more critical readers and those who have
actually used her work as a basis for academic theses. Unlike Douglas
Adams' dolphins who said "So long, and thanks for all the fish" AR, on
her departure for what she hopes more creative and satisfying pursuits
seems determined to sneer and belittle her readers throughout the
book.
The intent of Lestat's monologue (in the first chapter), or I should
say AR's tirade is to imply that the readers of her books are stupid
materialists who only want the Vampire Lestat in his pretty clothes
and riding his Harley and did not appreciate her masterwork, Memnoch
the Devil. The ignorant swine did not appreciate the pearls of wisdom
sprinkled throughout the book - her 'metaphysical vision of Creation
and Eternity' and the history of Christianity and meditations on the
Cosmos. She at the same time claims, through Lestat that she is not
elitist and wants to be read in university libraries and trailer parks
but implies most of the readers who didn't like MtD are trailer park
trash. She sneeringly refers to her readers only wanting the
literature equivalent of t-shirt slogans that they can wear to show
off and compare which version they've got. She also has a go at
post-modern writers, saying, "I don't deconstruct nothin'" Perhaps I
think she is a little jealous of the popularity of such writers with
the critics. You get the impression she probably resents being
considered a 'horror story' genre writer and feels she should get
greater respect from critics as well and her readers should just shut
up and stop criticising as they were making her/Lestat miserable. I
think she was trying for a humorous tone but her resentments and
motives show all too clearly.
She has obviously read the criticisms of the injection of her
‘born-again' faith into her books and is annoyed by it. She has Lestat
launch into a strange riff on his fantasy to be known and worshipped
as St Lestat. It almost seems a self-parody. Is she trying to be
ironic? It is amusing at a certain level but when you read some parts
of Lestat's fantasy concerning his nocturnal visitation from Heaven to
enlighten the Pope, you get a queasy feeling that she is being deadly
serious. Her reverential tones when she describes the Pope's
‘selflessness and profound spirituality' make me uneasy. She goes
further in a later chapter dedicated to Lestat's meditations on the
existence of saints, stating Lestat's belief in Papal infallibility.
Afterward telling the readers to stop complaining and indulge Lestat's
fantasy. I must admit Lestat's revelations of the joys (as yet
undiscovered by the church and the Pope) of modernism and materialism
fostered by the electronic revolution and his belief that
techno-saints will arise to melt the poverty of millions, annihilating
hatred and divisiveness via internet cafes and the joys of computer
literacy was amusing.
Throughout the book she introduces condescending little notes
explaining things to the reader, as if they were morons and also
displays sensitivity to the criticisms made of her long descriptive
passages of furniture, clothes and the scene within her previous
books. Personally I liked her long descriptive passages in the early
books. They were usually written in a way that gave you a good
impression of the overwhelming intensity of a vampire's senses of
sight and smell and sound. She also has picked up on the dislike of
Merrick as a character, putting the words "I'll just bring her up
anytime I feel like it" in Lestat's mouth, "Who's in charge of this
book?" She resents any challenge to her authority as the writer by her
readers' criticisms.
She seems to consider her readers morons but she has created a moronic
Lestat. His language in this book is that of a 21st Century illiterate
adolescent totally educated by TV and indicating a barren intellect.
His conversation is littered with ‘dudes', ‘cool', ‘babycakes',
‘pah-lease'. She has Lestat claim that his writing style has changed
so as not ‘to cheapen my discourse, and throw up a barrier of –
artificial quaintness, more or less."
At the same time she has the execrable Mona and the utterly vacuous
Quinn spout Shakespearian dialogue at each other at the drop of a hat.
So much for artificiality. Or maybe she feels she had to write down to
her perceived audience. God forbid that Lestat the Magnificent as he
now wants to be termed can't communicate with his audience!
Speaking of the other characters in this tome, there is Quinn, a faux
Louis introduced in the other bookend to this tale, Blackwood Farm who
is described by Lestat as ‘a seer of visions and a dreamer of dreams,
unconsciously charming and unfailingly kind. A suffering hunter of the
night who thrived only on the blood of the damned, and the company of
the loving and the uplifting.' And who are this ‘company of the loving
and uplifting'. It includes Lestat, his beloved Ophelia to his
Abelard, Mona Mayfair and the strange menagerie of characters with
which AR has populated Blackwood Farm. Maybe this is her attempt at
‘magical realism'. I gather she sees herself more in the mode of a
modern-day Charles Dickens but it hasn't stopped her from having a
stab at a more modern genre. Unfortunately she is no Gabriel Garcia
Marquez and not even a passable Toni Morrison. The characters of Aunt
Queen, Big Ramona and Jasmine and the other assorted merely come off
as peculiar Southerners with very little charm or sense. This also
applies to some of the ancillary characters of the Mayfair Clan, Tante
Oscar and Dolly Jean, just distinctly odd caricatures.
The other member of the little ménage a trois that Lestat forms in
this book is Mona Mayfair. He makes her a vampire, to save Quinn from
suffering the separation from her caused by the blood barrier between
maker and fledgling and they decamp from Blackwood Farm to Lestat's
apartments in New Orleans before Rowan Mayfair can work out what
happened to Mona. Oh, in the meantime, as well as falling in love with
Mona, he falls desperately in love with Rowan Mayfair after a short
conversation with her and a quick snog on the porch of Blackwood Farm.
He sees the deep pain and spirituality of soul and guilt in her and
believes that Rowan has become the love of his life besides all the
others he has had in his mortal and immortal lives. For this and the
making of Mona the Vampire, the ghost of Oncle Julien Mayfair with his
little sidekick, Stella haunts him throughout the book. They of course
wanted to bring Mona to the Light. I suppose Anne despairs of bringing
her readers to the Light. She makes some interesting Freudian slips
when writing some of Lestat's words, like "The simple perfume of Rowan
on my hands, paralysed me. I had to get straight." Does she mean she
had to make Lestat the Magnificent straight? Couldn't have him still
fancying men could she? Might be against Vatican principles and the
teachings of the infallible Pope. But then she has been trying that
for years. There were the Gretchen and Dora experiments, but he just
couldn't stay away from that damnable Louis, tempting him back to the
dark side or the gay side. Straight didn't work out well for Louis. He
did commit suicide as a result of his dealings with Merrick and was
only revived by Lestat. She should have learned by now.
Sorry back to the story. Well after Lestat installs the little
threesome in the Rue Royale apartments, you sort of get the feeling
she is trying to re-create the original family that lived at Rue
Royale. But this time you have faux Louis, Quinn as mother and Lestat
as his irascible and authoritarian self and Mona the baby of the
family. She is liable to monumental temper tantrums to rival Lestat's
when she finds out Lestat has fallen in love with Rowan Mayfair. The
whole Claudia-Lestat dynamic is re-created in this book with Quinn in
the middle, ineffectually trying to calm things down. But this time,
it is not a woman's mind in a child's body it is a spoilt brat in the
body of a woman. AR can't help herself in repeating her earlier work.
She has either run out of inspiration or maybe she thinks she's
presenting a new improved version or it is a cruel self-parody and she
is junking all her previous work. She actually uses Mona to have a go
at academic theorists who have used the Vampire Chronicles as a
discussion basis in their academic papers. She obviously is pissed off
with them too and uses Mona to parody them. Mona on the second night
of her vampire life sits down and taps out her theories on vampirism.
Here is a short sample of the words Mona puts to paper –
"It is my ultimate goal to transmute this experience unto a level of
life participation which is worthy of the immense powers that have
been bequeathed to me by Lestat, a level of life experience which
knows no moral shrinking from the most obvious yet painful theological
questions which my transfigured state has made utterly inescapable.,
the first of which is, obviously, How does God view my essential
being? Am I human and vampire? Or vampire only? That is, is damnation
and I speak now not of literal Hell with flames, but a state which is
defined by the absence of God – is damnation implicit and inherent in
what I am, or do I exist in a relativistic universe in which I may
attain grace on the same terms as humans can attain it, by
participating in the Incarnation of Christ, an historical event in
which I totally believe, in spite of the fact that it is not
philosophically fashionable, though what questions of fashion have to
do with me now in this transcendent and often luminous condition is
moot." Lestat then provides a critique where he suggests dropping the
‘fashionable question' and ‘finish, perhaps with some very concise
statement about the level on which you believe in the Incarnation of
Christ."
Again her religious mania intrudes into the book or is she just trying
to get a rise from her readers who don't understand her new higher
belief-based philosophy of life. She gets Lestat further on in the
book to repudiate his former philosophy of life that of "The Savage
Garden" as Lestat says it was a phrase he used "when I didn't believe
in anything, when I believed the only laws were aesthetic laws." So,
as she has repudiated her old beliefs for her born-again Christian
credo, she has Lestat then say that he has replaced this belief with
"Belief in The Maker, who put it all together with love and purpose."
Followed with an Amen and a little homily from Michael Curry about
"someone better than us." But at the same time she still is recreating
the old characters, instead of David Talbot she now has a new old and
wise man from the Talamasca, Stirling who drives an MG TD. She's a
great recycler.
Rowan and Michael Curry visit the threesome at their apartments and
goes into a catatonic state when she realises Mona is no longer
‘alive' and is carried out by Lestat , kissing and cuddling her in
front of her husband. After pleas from Michael Curry the threesome
visit the Mayfair House and Lestat brings Rowan out of her madness to
Michael's gratitude and reveals to them that they are Vampires and
gets the full story of the Mayfairs and the Taltos as well as
revealing that Rowan lusted for the entirety of himself with a love
that totally obliterated the love for her husband. Oh dear! I wonder
what AR has been reading lately. Mills and Boon? Another genre she has
a stab at in the final chapter – Lestat's declaration to Rowan "I love
you Rowan Mayfair, I belong to you. I'll always belong to you. I'll
never be far away." This before he nobly renounces her and vows not to
make her a vampire for the sake of his great, pure love. And "Because
I wouldn't lose the lesson of love I'd learned through her." Oh I
suppose Louis was just an appetizer, before the main course, which was
Rowan who showed him the true splendour of love and renunciation.
Because of course "I wanna be a saint, I wanna save souls by the
millions…..I don't want to do bad things even to bad guys, I wanna be
Saint Juan Diego.." Is Ste Anne Rice far behind?
But I'm getting ahead of myself. After getting the full story
concerning the Taltos and Mona's daughter, Morrigan, Lestat vows to
Mona that he will find Morrigan for her. But this only happens after
St Lestat acts as exorcist and helps Patsy, Quinn's country & western
singer mother go to the Light dressed in pink leather and belting out
Gloria in Excelsis Deo. He tussles with the ghost of Oncle Julien who
tries to grab him but saves himself. He then forgives Mona who he has
been fighting with in the mean time on the proviso that she obeys him
implicitly and receives his instructions obediently and never mentions
his love for Rowan Mayfair again and she must not act like a PowerSlut
ever again. Oh god she must be joking here. Lestat now wants to be a
moral exemplar of the perfect vampire. He aims now to bring Mona up as
a perfect vampire of course in the quest for his moral evolution as
Maharet puts it. AR's tongue must be so firmly planted in her cheek
when she wrote this crap, it will have to be surgically removed. But
then Mona refers to Rowan as walking with God and that the Mayfair
Medical Centre is her sacred mountain. Do you smell Mary-Sue here?
Does AR now seeing herself as Rowan? And of course Lestat loves her.
He is now the Beloved Boss of the troika and refers to the happy
couple, Quinn and Mona as the Dynamic Duo. He also solves Quinn's
personnel problems on Blackwood Farm by suggesting his ex-tutor be put
in charge of the staff. What a multi-talented vampire Lestat has
turned out to be, possessing top-notch HR skills as well, when will
miracles cease!
Now it's time for super-hero Lestat to appear. They get an e-mail
message from Maharet telling them where the Taltos are located in
response to Lestat's telepathic communications asking for her help in
the search for the Taltos. A surprise to the now technologically
challenged Lestat who claims he knows nothing about computers and when
he first saw a locomotive fell down in fright. AR can't keep her story
line straight even in the same novel. Lestat was waxing lyrical to the
Pope in his fantasy about the miracle of internet technology and
modern telecommunications at the beginning at the novel and he turns
into a Luddite who only writes with a quill and ink three-quarters of
the way through the book. Sorry back to super–hero Lestat. He teaches
Mona all of her powers and flies with her and Quinn to the Caribbean
Island, St Ponticus of maybe it should be St Pontificate, and he wipes
out the evil drug-runners with ease and saves the three remaining
Taltos. AR seems to have an obsession with threes. Mona doesn't like
any of the remaining Taltos. Much like AR and her readers. The only
remaining male, Oberon is darkly cynical and hateful too her – much
like AR's critics on the net. There is Lorkyn the scheming, academic
who would have worked it out, but Lestat saved them before she could
attempt it and now intends to follow her mentor Rowan (or is it AR)
into the medical profession. And last and certainly the least is
Miravelle, the empty-headed bimbo of the three. Little Miss Sweetness
who only ever thinks and says nice things about people (AR's official
fan club members).
The final resolution is that the Taltos stay in the care of the
Mayfair Medical Centre and St Lestat after a final grope, kiss and
cuddle with Rowan tells her he can't make her a vampire and nobly for
the love of Rowan sends her back to serve and save all mankind from
the hub of her Medical Centre. Lestat by this time has rid himself of
the ghost, Oncle Julien because of his noble deed and then settles
down at Blackwood Farm and to line dancing and enjoying the Dixie
Chicks. The Dynamic Duo leave him as well to learn how to be good
Vampires at Maharet's Finishing School for Young Vampires and he is
left alone again, feeling tragic and sorry for himself yet again. What
a pitiful end to the VC. Or maybe I can quote again from Douglas
Adams' fourth book in the Hitchhiker trilogy – "There was a point to
this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind." Or
in the case of AR, not sure there is much of a mind left it seems.
PS Oh one saving grace is that Louis is mentioned only once in passing
and the only sense you have of him in the book is the choice of
Impressionist artwork on the walls of Lestat's apartments.
Paige
> launch into a strange riff on his fantasy to be known and worshipped
> as St Lestat. It almost seems a self-parody. Is she trying to be
> ironic? It is amusing at a certain level but when you read some parts
> of Lestat's fantasy concerning his nocturnal visitation from Heaven to
> enlighten the Pope, you get a queasy feeling that she is being deadly
> serious. Her reverential tones when she describes the Pope's
> further in a later chapter dedicated to Lestat's meditations on the
> existence of saints, stating Lestat's belief in Papal infallibility.
> Afterward telling the readers to stop complaining and indulge Lestat's
> fantasy. I must admit Lestat's revelations of the joys (as yet
> undiscovered by the church and the Pope) of modernism and materialism
> fostered by the electronic revolution and his belief that
> techno-saints will arise to melt the poverty of millions, annihilating
> hatred and divisiveness via internet cafes and the joys of computer
> literacy was amusing.
>
> Throughout the book she introduces condescending little notes
> explaining things to the reader, as if they were morons and also
> displays sensitivity to the criticisms made of her long descriptive
> passages of furniture, clothes and the scene within her previous
> books. Personally I liked her long descriptive passages in the early
> books. They were usually written in a way that gave you a good
> impression of the overwhelming intensity of a vampire's senses of
> sight and smell and sound. She also has picked up on the dislike of
> Merrick as a character, putting the words "I'll just bring her up
> anytime I feel like it" in Lestat's mouth, "Who's in charge of this
> book?" She resents any challenge to her authority as the writer by her
> readers' criticisms.
>
> She seems to consider her readers morons but she has created a moronic
> Lestat. His language in this book is that of a 21st Century illiterate
> adolescent totally educated by TV and indicating a barren intellect.
> ?pah-lease'. She has Lestat claim that his writing style has changed
> so as not ?to cheapen my discourse, and throw up a barrier of ?
> artificial quaintness, more or less."
> At the same time she has the execrable Mona and the utterly vacuous
> Quinn spout Shakespearian dialogue at each other at the drop of a hat.
> So much for artificiality. Or maybe she feels she had to write down to
> her perceived audience. God forbid that Lestat the Magnificent as he
> now wants to be termed can't communicate with his audience!
>
> Speaking of the other characters in this tome, there is Quinn, a faux
> Louis introduced in the other bookend to this tale, Blackwood Farm who
> unconsciously charming and unfailingly kind. A suffering hunter of the
> night who thrived only on the blood of the damned, and the company of
> and uplifting'. It includes Lestat, his beloved Ophelia to his
> Abelard, Mona Mayfair and the strange menagerie of characters with
> which AR has populated Blackwood Farm. Maybe this is her attempt at
> "It is my ultimate goal to transmute this experience unto a level of
> life participation which is worthy of the immense powers that have
> been bequeathed to me by Lestat, a level of life experience which
> knows no moral shrinking from the most obvious yet painful theological
> questions which my transfigured state has made utterly inescapable.,
> the first of which is, obviously, How does God view my essential
> being? Am I human and vampire? Or vampire only? That is, is damnation
> and I speak now not of literal Hell with flames, but a state which is
> what I am, or do I exist in a relativistic universe in which I may
> attain grace on the same terms as humans can attain it, by
> participating in the Incarnation of Christ, an historical event in
> which I totally believe, in spite of the fact that it is not
> philosophically fashionable, though what questions of fashion have to
> do with me now in this transcendent and often luminous condition is
> moot." Lestat then provides a critique where he suggests dropping the
> statement about the level on which you believe in the Incarnation of
> Christ."
> Again her religious mania intrudes into the book or is she just trying
> to get a rise from her readers who don't understand her new higher
> belief-based philosophy of life. She gets Lestat further on in the
> book to repudiate his former philosophy of life that of "The Savage
> Garden" as Lestat says it was a phrase he used "when I didn't believe
> in anything, when I believed the only laws were aesthetic laws." So,
> as she has repudiated her old beliefs for her born-again Christian
> credo, she has Lestat then say that he has replaced this belief with
> "Belief in The Maker, who put it all together with love and purpose."
> Followed with an Amen and a little homily from Michael Curry about
> "someone better than us." But at the same time she still is recreating
> the old characters, instead of David Talbot she now has a new old and
> wise man from the Talamasca, Stirling who drives an MG TD. She's a
> great recycler.
>
> Rowan and Michael Curry visit the threesome at their apartments and
> goes into a catatonic state when she realises Mona is no longer
> front of her husband. After pleas from Michael Curry the threesome
> visit the Mayfair House and Lestat brings Rowan out of her madness to
> Michael's gratitude and reveals to them that they are Vampires and
> gets the full story of the Mayfairs and the Taltos as well as
> revealing that Rowan lusted for the entirety of himself with a love
> that totally obliterated the love for her husband. Oh dear! I wonder
> what AR has been reading lately. Mills and Boon? Another genre she has
> you Rowan Mayfair, I belong to you. I'll always belong to you. I'll
> never be far away." This before he nobly renounces her and vows not to
> make her a vampire for the sake of his great, pure love. And "Because
> I wouldn't lose the lesson of love I'd learned through her." Oh I
> suppose Louis was just an appetizer, before the main course, which was
> Rowan who showed him the true splendour of love and renunciation.
> Because of course "I wanna be a saint, I wanna save souls by the
> Mona all of her powers and flies with her and Quinn to the Caribbean
> Island, St Ponticus of maybe it should be St Pontificate, and he wipes
> out the evil drug-runners with ease and saves the three remaining
> Taltos. AR seems to have an obsession with threes. Mona doesn't like
> any of the remaining Taltos. Much like AR and her readers. The only
> like AR's critics on the net. There is Lorkyn the scheming, academic
> who would have worked it out, but Lestat saved them before she could
> attempt it and now intends to follow her mentor Rowan (or is it AR)
> into the medical profession. And last and certainly the least is
> Miravelle, the empty-headed bimbo of the three. Little Miss Sweetness
> who only ever thinks and says nice things about people (AR's official
> fan club members).
>
> The final resolution is that the Taltos stay in the care of the
> Mayfair Medical Centre and St Lestat after a final grope, kiss and
> cuddle with Rowan tells her he can't make her a vampire and nobly for
> the love of Rowan sends her back to serve and save all mankind from
> the hub of her Medical Centre. Lestat by this time has rid himself of
> the ghost, Oncle Julien because of his noble deed and then settles
> down at Blackwood Farm and to line dancing and enjoying the Dixie
> Chicks. The Dynamic Duo leave him as well to learn how to be good
> Vampires at Maharet's Finishing School for Young Vampires and he is
> left alone again, feeling tragic and sorry for himself yet again. What
> a pitiful end to the VC. Or maybe I can quote again from Douglas
> this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind." Or
> in the case of AR, not sure there is much of a mind left it seems.
>
> PS Oh one saving grace is that Louis is mentioned only once in passing
> and the only sense you have of him in the book is the choice of
> Impressionist artwork on the walls of Lestat's apartments.
I agree totally!!!! I felt attacked by Anne in the first chapter of
her new book. It was like she knew this book was bad and she was
defenseive from the start. I am glad that Anne has reconnected with
her faith, but I don't like how it seems to have influenced her
writing. Nothing seems fresh anymore.
CellarDoor
please slap me and to those of you who haven't read the book and want
to – please scroll!
SPOILER DISCUSSION
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Many have noted the number of parallels in Blood Canticle and the
earlier VC chronicles. The trio of Quinn, Mona & Lestat mimics the
Louis, Claudia, Lestat relationship. Rowan reminds me of Gabrielle and
becomes the love of Lestat's life. (snerk – I didn't buy it but I see
a parallel.)
Did the scene between Lestat and Rowan at the end of the book remind
you of the scene between Lestat and Louis in ToBT? There were some
striking similarities. I wondered if when Lestat claimed to understand
pure love in his denying Rowan the blood despite his feelings if he
harkened back to that night as a mortal begging Louis for his blood
and Louis' denial in the name of love.
Do you think this was meant intentionally or am I grasping at straws?
Lestat does not refer to this incident or any sort of revelation from
that scene in ToBT. However, it struck me pretty hard and I wonder if
we were to infer that Lestat had a new understanding/appreciation for
Louis' motives.
Thoughts? I'd love to hear the group's take on this.
Sine
see where in some ways it might not seem a satisfactory "end." On the
other hand, if you buy the premise that the natural end of a genre is
an ironic turning inward, BC certainly is rich in ironic
self-awareness. Lestat's loopy stream-of-consciousness and mangled
attempts at a modern patois, Mona's "philosophical" outpourings, Mona
calling Lestat on his gender politics, the old lady mistaking Quinn
for Louis, Maharet making fun of Lestat for not having email, etc.
It's got to be the most comic VC ever.
I was dying with laughter when Lestat was listening with exaggerated
patience to Mona read aloud from her journal and giving her tips on
her prose. Because you know he would have snatched the pages from
Louis and force fed them to him, or something. HE knows it. He's
like George on Seinfeld, trying to succeed by doing the Opposite. And
his exasperation when she got pissed with him anyway was priceless.
> Rowan reminds me of Gabrielle and
> becomes the love of Lestat's life. (snerk ? I didn't buy it but I see
> a parallel.)
I think Rowan is clearly Gabrielle, but a fantasy Gabrielle who
underneath her icy exterior is even needier than he is. It made me
sad.
> I wondered if when Lestat claimed to understand
> pure love in his denying Rowan the blood despite his feelings if he
> harkened back to that night as a mortal begging Louis for his blood
> and Louis' denial in the name of love.
>
I don't think this is too much of a stretch. Louis is sort of
strikingly present in his absence in this book, as in the Educating
Mona scenes I mentioned above. Louis emerges throughout as the
unspoken touchstone for the past that Lestat is so determined to
redeem.
sine
Joe Smith
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Tamara
I was giggling most of the way through and finished it in under a weekend -
BF took me a day longer *lol*
spoiler space.........
I must say, I thought they were excellent endings to both the VC and
Mayfair. I loved the way LeStat refused to give the Dark Gift to Rowan, yet
told her she would receive it at later date.
Tamara
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