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Title	:	Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles #8)
Author	:	Anne Rice
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 752 pages
Published	:	November 7th 2002 by Arrow (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Paranormal. Vampires. Horror. Fantasy. Fiction

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Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of the Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his 'maker', the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'. When the Visigoths sack his city, Marius is there; with the resurgence of the glory that was Rome, he is there, still searching for his lost love Pandora, but bewitched in turn by Botticelli, the Renaissance beauty Bianca, with her sordid secrets, and the boy he calls Amadeo (otherwise known as the Vampire Armand). Criss-crossing through the stories of other vampires from Rice's glorious Pantheon of the undead, haunted by Pandora and by his alter ego Mael, tracked by the Talamasca, the tale of Marius, the self-styled guardian of 'those who must be kept' is the most wondrous and mind-blowing of them all.

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Original Title:	Blood and Gold: The Vampire Marius
ISBN:	0099271494 (ISBN13: 9780099271499)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Vampire Chronicles #8
Characters:	Thorne, Akasha, Enkil, Mael, Khayman, Marius de Romanus, Daniel Molloy, Bianca Solderini, Santino, Armand, Pandora

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Shall I say Marius de Romanus is my new favorite vampire, in all of his oozing sensuality? Why, yes.Reading this book made me excited to reread The Vampire Chronicles. I have to admit, I actually found myself falling in love with Marius, or at least developing a crush on him, towards the end of the book. Oh, how I would gladly pin a poster of this Ancient Roman Blood Drinker to my wall if ever they made one of him. Besides, Anne Rice's perpetual glorifying sensuality found so prominently in

This book though...So apparently, the whole 'Vampire Chronicles' series goes backwards from the first book being last and so on, if I understood correctly and this entry is about Marius and Pandora, how they fell in love and Thorne also and some other vampires. The story was too long and had too many characters and too many plotlines. I got tired of it and got lost in it. I like Anne Rice's writing very much but this was a downfall...

Another book-end story by Rice and no surprises. I'm determined to finish the series, but it is getting tedious. While this book seemed to have an easier prose than most of the Chronicle books (Body Thief aside), the lack of plot or tension or drama or really anything going on kept this book from a higher rating. That said, and despite all that said, it was a page turner. Rice's prose in this volume is engaging and forward driven. While not much is actually going on, I was interested in what



I think Anne Rice is slowly starting to become one of my favorite authors. She has a way with words that is simply beautiful to me and I love the way she incorporates history into her works. The element of history is like another character altogether and it makes perfect sense because this series constantly grapples with what it means to die, to live in a timeless world where everyone you once loved as a mortal is gone, and those you have made immortal so that they may love you grow to resent

This is truly Marius's opus as we follow him through the ages, loving and leaving one famous and infamous person after another. Can a vampire really love another more than himself? This question is never really answered here.Marius is smitten by Pandora, Botticelli, and dozens of others and has to leave them all behind, in one way or another.He slogs through the Black Death with out a mark( he's a vamp after all he's already dead right?) Even a plague of that magnitude won't slow our beauteous

Thorne, his long sleep interrupted by the waking and rampaging of the Vampire Queen Akasha, is now driven to find the one who made him, the one he saw in his visions Maharet, one of the two oldest vampires in the worldHe emerges from his icy tomb to seek his own kind and finds Marius, the Roman, Child of the Millennium, Former Keeper of Those Who Must be Kept. And avid biogorapher who recounts his history to the Norse vampireThorne emerges from his centuries of sleep, trying to find answers,