I kicked him as sure as she had kicked me, only my knee came up and he went whirling back. He grabbed for the violin. Years and years wrapped round all this and meant nothing as I played. Download Violin by Anne Rice. Copyright Disclaimer: This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Popular ebooks. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question.
In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence. He wakes from a year sleep to find the world he knew so much more develop from what it was. He finds a liking to rock music and from it creates the biggest rock band in history.
He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently. Once a mortal girl in ancient Rome, she was given immortality by Marius, her lover and the dark genius of the Lestat novels. Darkly erotic and bitterly immortal. Back in New Orleans the Mayfair women, realizing they are all in danger, join forces under young seductive Mona, while Rowan's stunned husband Michael with the help of Julien's spirit joins Aaron Lightner in his quest to solve the Mayfair mystery.
What do you think? Write your own comment on this author Please Login or Register to write comments or use smm accounts Log in Log in Log in. Write a comment. Nalini Singh Author. Rachel Caine Author. Charlaine Harris Author. Karen Marie Moning Author. Sandra Brown Author. Cassandra Clare Author. Gena Showalter Author. Rick Riordan Author. Stephenie Meyer Author. Tamora Pierce Author. Lauren Kate Author. Sherrilyn Kenyon Author. Nora Roberts Author. Elizabeth Hoyt Author. This is the story of the castrati, the exquisite and otherworldly sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices win the adulation of royal courts and grand opera houses throughout Europe.
These men are revered as idols—and, at the same time, scorned for all they are not. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans.
She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.
From the Hardcover edition. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here and there, in streaks of irresistible brilliance.
I felt love around me in this vast and seamless realm of sound and light. And something akin to sadness swept me up and mingled my very essence with the voices who sang, because the voices were singing of me.
This is the second of Anne Rice's classic Sleeping Beauty trilogy. Reviews of the Beauty's Punishment. You can read this book with Apple Books on your. Roquelaure, Anne Rice. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty: A Novel.
In the traditional folktale of 'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious.
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