Description: The vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battles a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul. It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we learn the tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent -- and of how and why this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean. And as we learn of the mighty, far-reaching powers and perfections of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.
Review Quotes: Praise for Anne Rice's Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
"A dark fairy tale. . . . One of Rice's most imaginative tales yet." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "Remarkable . . . Prepare to have your imagination shaken. Rice has constructed a wholly original view of Atlantis, and, like all of her luscious descriptions, it will leave you craving for more." --Bookreporter "Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis will undoubtedly win Rice new fans and welcome back old ones." --New York Journal of Books "Alluring. . . . Rice invites us to look carefully at our society and consider what we are carrying along with us simply by virtue of the path on which we arrived. . . . Powerful and thought-provoking. . . . We recommend it unreservedly." --Pop Mythology "Rice exhibits tremendous skill in making the impossible seem not only possible but logical. She sets up a nail-biting dilemma involving the continued existence of vampires, and the second half of the book roars satisfyingly past." --Publishers Weekly "Anne Rice is the queen of sexy vampire fiction." --Cosmopolitan "A few pages in, I was sold. . . . Suave, complex. . . . I will always be so grateful that Anne has given me another opportunity to follow the adventures of this very intriguing vampire." --Carol Hoenig, Huffington Post