That is the most charitable I can be about this as a whole. He is talented and does great on some of the other male characters but the fact is the main character is supposed to be 16 years old. The story is actually great but the narrator's voice, while not bad, is just not right for a 16 year old boy's voice. For a full selection of Anne Rice programs available at ® and to hear the author answering fan mail, visit the Anne Rice store. Vittorio is Volume 2 of The New Tales of the Vampires. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war, and political intrigue.Īgainst a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de'Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.
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