Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles)
by Anne Rice

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Book Review: (3.5) Two sides to every story
Summary: 4 Stars

But at least it gets Marius telling his life story, and perhaps because the "interviewer" is a stranger, he feels comfortable opening up about all sorts of things. In the words of Alanis Morissette, it's "strangely exciting, to watch the stoic squirm." Yes, at times Marius's story seems really familiar, since most of the major plot events have been told already in _The Vampire Lestat_, _Pandora_, and _The Vampire Armand_. But now we know just how broken-up Marius was about some of the tragedies in his "life". We find out how much he loved Pandora, and how much he had to lean on a certain other vampire (I'll avoid the spoiler) after Santino burned him. I especially love the fact that his recollection of his brief reunion with Pandora is so very different from Pandora's version. Pandora says the Indian vamp was a jerk and that she didn't love him; Marius believes the two were codependent as heck. And Marius breaks someone else's heart that night as well. Even the letter, lost for fifty years, is different between the two books.

In short, this is a pretty good book. You may feel like you've read all this stuff before, but if you pay close attention, you'll get to see the other side of the cool, logical Marius.

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