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From the back: "Eerily Vibrant...The title character is ahighbotrn woman of Augustan Rome who later names herself after the Pandora of mythology, opening her own box of surprises. Sitting in a modern-day Paris cafe in the aftermath of a fresh kill, the vampire Pandora accepts the challenge of recounting her history and immediately sets to work, filling the blank pages of an elegant leatherbound notebook....A wealth of narrative twists and period detail." --The New York Times Book Review

I really liked Interview with a Vampire and was looking forward to this one. I was little disappointed. The language was wonderful, but the story was lackluster. Pandora as a character seemed distant and cold. I like my "history" in the historical fiction to part of the plot and story, but this was just a backdrop that could have taken place anytime or place. Anne Rice is a popular author and I'm sure there are others out there, that loved this, but it wasn't my cup of tea.

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Released for the 2008 Leap Into the Wild 366 Challenge.