Glorious, beautiful.

When I wrote the review for Pandora, I had just started The Vampire Armand. The beginning was very promising. I have to say having just finished the novel, that I am enthralled by it.

Trying to tell you a little a bit about it seems a trifle insulting.

The book starts in a room under the roof in New Orleans. It sets you off balance because you don't know why Armand is there. Then appears David Talbot who, as for Pandora, asks Armand to tell his own tale. David Talbot serves as his secretary as Armand recounts his history. With Armand, you live in Venice, you go to Russia, and Paris. And then the story goes on and jumps to NYC at the moment when Lestat brings back Veronica's Veil.

Not having read Memnoch the Devil entirely and having a very low opinion of it, I didn't really pay attention to the part in Nyc until I realized that it was totally new and I had to go back and reread the passage.

This is probably one of my favorites of the Vampires chronicles. We all remember how vampires were created in the first place. So it was a change to see a Vampire who was so immersed into Christianity.

I really felt Armand's desperation, his search for something higher than him, something that will give him the force to live on, because Marius could not do it.

I also liked the novel because Marius is an important character in the book as he is his creator. And I have to admit that Marius is probably the Vampire that I like the most!

This novel is superb as no other is because of Armand's personality.

 Buy it, borrow it, Enjoy it.