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Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new group of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who may have attempt to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.
The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a kid of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the fantastic Marius. David persuades her to share the story of her life.
Pandora begins, reluctantly initially and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is actually the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the town. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her behalf the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure with their two turbulent centuries together.
