Name: Merrick
ISBN: 0345422406

Anne Rice

Merrick

This makes the second book not centered around Lestat and personally I am completely okay with it. It is nice to get a look at other characters and seeing how things are progressing within the larger vampiric world. 

 We get another tie in to the Mayfair Witches with one of their descendants being the focus of this story.

 David has asked Merrick if she can bring forth the ghost of Claudia, the forever child vampire made by Lestat and cared for by Louis.

 But it seems the story will center around Merrick and her back story, though I am noticing it goes back and forth throughout. Still a very scenic style of writing. Rice just has a way of pulling a reader into New Orleans.

 A lot of backstory between Merrick and David is being laid out. 

And so Merrick sets out to awaken and bring forth the spirit of Claudia.

Sasha Mann

This makes the second book not centered around Lestat and personally I am completely okay with it. It is nice to get a look at other characters and seeing how things are progressing within the larger vampiric world. 
 We get another tie in to the Mayfair Witches with one of their descendants being the focus of this story.
 David has asked Merrick if she can bring forth the ghost of Claudia, the forever child vampire made by Lestat and cared for by Louis.
 But it seems the story will center around Merrick and her back story, though I am noticing it goes back and forth throughout. Still a very scenic style of writing. Rice just has a way of pulling a reader into New Orleans.
 A lot of backstory between Merrick and David is being laid out. 
And so Merrick sets out to awaken and bring forth the spirit of Claudia.
 

When last the vampire Lestat was seen, he was rising from the dead in present-day New Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable undead. Now Lestat lives again, but in a twilight world of music and memory. His charismatic friend Louis de Pointe du Lac is tortured by the memory of the child vampire, Claudia, whom he loved and lost. He calls on Merrick, young and gorgeous mixed-race by-blow of the rich New Orleans Mayfair clan. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be. There are other Mayfair spirits who will not lie still, and her search takes her close to the edge, through blood and terror, ritual and violence. Sweeping from New Orleans to the Brazilian jungle and the island of Haiti, this is vampire literature at its most tantalising, sexy and irresistible.