in the last books they are basically married lol

He also worked on a werewolf series with his mother and it was…icky. Like describing transforming into werewolf form mid coitus and continuing kind of icky…

@@rawrbeez6625 yikes, had no idea

It’s a novel. Fiction. Nothing in it is real.

This author was a pervert and nobody can tell me differently

I think the reason is very simple. I feel like people have no understanding of history or how men think at all. Let’s start with Anne herself who grew up in a different generation where it was very normal for men to sexualize young women. Hell you still see it today. Only difference is that now people don’t take that bull anymore. She grew up with men being a holes. Two the character David Talbot is a man. Actually is an old man because he was in his 60’s when he came into the series and the series takes place in the 80’s NOT 2024. Again 70’s and 80’s sexualized young female. Brooke Shields comes to mind. So she wrote the book in this case early 90’s. The series takes place around the 80’s. The character is an old man who like a lot of men sexualized young girls. Why do you want to live in a bubble? Before asking these questions THINK for a moment and put yourself in the authors shoes and then put yourself in the characters shoes. Think of the time period, does the story take place during Roman Empire , Greek Empire etc and if you don’t know much about the time then take a moment and do some research and you will get your answer. If she would have been alive now I don’t think her books would involve so many minors because we’re living in different times. Of course that is if she was writing a novel based on this time period. You can’t write about the history of times and just write the nice things of the era. You have to write about the mess up things that were quite normal in the era. That is why we don’t have slaves nor have sex with 10 year old. We have evolved because we found out about the history of sex. If we don’t speak about them then we might be doomed to repeat it.

I agree

@jtsbrown754 I don't really mean duds. I actually like all of them too. More so, "Blood and Gold", "Blackwood Farm" and "Blood Canticle" aren't super relevant to where Rice goes with the final three books.

@jtsbrown754 in reference to the "aliens" I initially hated what I felt like was a ret-con of my favorite book in the series "Memnoch" but after reading it a second time I really vibed with the future Rice created for her vampires.

Not a clue, the woman had issues apparently.

It was a limited edition collab between cloak and Good Mythical Morning last year.

@@diana2063 now that you mention it, I had never quite pondered that possibility... Anne always spoke of her childhood and adolescence as quite happy ones but, who knows?? Just as her grief over her daughter bled unto IWTV, maybe there was some unadressed trauma behind all the mess in her later work; I really hope not though. And also, same, I haven't read the Mayfair Witches but don't I wish I had stoped with the Vampire Chronicles after Queen of the Damned! Louis and Lestat fly away, all the other Vampires remain chilling in Miami until the end of eternity and no one ever, ever looks at a child improperly again, the end 🤣

@@diana2063 nah that's just catholic school backfiring horribly. seen it many times. like when i look in the mirror, lmao!

The answer was originally "no" (Maheret and Makhare were no longer witches once they were turned), but it seems Merrick retains her powers, so now I have no idea!

In blackwood farm

i have red just the first 3 books but i read somewhere that in her latest book she kinda change her mind and they can, in some way, have sex. i know for sure two vampire at some point had sex. like real sex.