In this continuation of the Vampire Chronicles, Prince Lestat de Lioncourt grapples with a high-tech threat from a group of immortal beings known as the Replimoids. These creatures, led by Derek and Kapetria, claim to be the remnants of an ancient, advanced civilization lost to the sea thousands of years ago. As Lestat manages the various factions of the vampire court, he learns that the origin of the vampiric spirit, Amel, is tied directly to the fall of Atlantis. The narrative reveals how alien technology and biological experimentation created the ethereal parasite that grants the blood-drinkers their powers, forcing the protagonists to reconsider their entire history and biological nature.
Readers of long-running Gothic sagas and fans of speculative mythology will find this book provides a concrete origin story for the supernatural elements of the series. Those interested in the intersection of science fiction and horror read this to see classic monster lore recontextualized through ideas of extraterrestrial biology and lost history. The reader walks away with a detailed account of how the first vampires came to be and a new understanding of the core entity inhabiting the Blood Communion.
Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Escapist Adventurer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
