Pandora
Published: 2, March 1998
Author: Anne Rice
Book 1 of 2: New Tales of the Vampires
Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Greek, Historical, Horror, Horror, Legend, Myth, Roman, Romance, Vampire
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Pandora Summary
The Review:
Pandora is not just another Vampire tale in Anne Rice's collection; it is the narrative of Pandora, a lady with an intellect that equaled that of a scholar, and her search for knowledge and the meaning of existence. She is a betrayed lady, but that will not deter her. She relishes her transformation into a vampire since it allows her to taste and appreciate her love of life even more.
This is a fantastic book. My only disappointment is that it comes to an end far too quickly. I would have happily spent a thousand more pages with Pandora.
Incredible! This captivating story really took me off my feet. This is Anne Rice's greatest work. Romance, intrigue, and drama are all there in this tale. But, most importantly, it has a history.
I really like the past and history-related stuff. From Ancient Egypt through the Roman Empires to Greek Mythology, there is something for everyone. It's simply stunning. Anne Rice is a fantastic storyteller who specializes in historical fiction. She clearly conducts a thorough study, and she uses her knowledge to weave a captivating narrative of bygone eras when people enjoyed life simply for the pleasure of living.
She writes about a period when the time was plentiful. And it was spent reading, writing, and learning about their lives with their family and close friends. Philosophy, poetry, and just about everything else that came to mind was used to broaden their horizons. When time seemed to take an eternity and was appreciated in all of its splendor. In contrast to now, when time is flying past quicker than we can see.
Pandora's human life, her existence as a free unmarried woman in Antioch, her vampire origins, and her tangled connection with Marius are all chronicled in this book, which is essentially a journal addressed to David Talbot. Many other fans may not consider this book to be among their favorites, but it is unique in that it is the only one of her vampire books written in the voice of a woman. Also, how can you not be enamored with the past? In one fell swoop, I've got my vampires and historical fiction!
Both 'Pandora' and 'The Vampire Armand,' both written by Anne Rice with great genius, appear and read as if they were written after Blood and Gold, which came out a few years before them. The viewpoints of Pandora and Armand on The Vampire Chronicles, as well as their respective interactions with Marius, are both fascinating.
However, there's the usual Anne Rice issue of not enough eventual payoff and resolution to early-on established relationships and conflicts between characters, despite the fact that time apart, aging, expanding self-knowledge, perspective, and the adequate opportunity should allow for some degree of reconciliation. Furthermore, the precise nature of Marius's disagreements with Pandora is not well defined enough to generate the issues that they do.
Nonetheless, this Multiple Persons Point of View debate, rehash, enlargement, and explanation of the bigger and component elements of 'The Vampire Chronicles' is unexpectedly rewarding.
I had somehow missed reading Pandora's narrative while reviewing the other Vampire Chronicles. I was ecstatic to discover what was hidden under Pandora's calm veneer in Queen of the Damned. She was, in my opinion, one of the book's least developed characters. I strongly advise you to read this narrative if only for the sake of learning more about Pandora.
Warning: There are spoilers in the following paragraphs until "Final Thoughts," so jump to "Final Thoughts" if you don't want to be spoiled. Pandora initially appears in The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned as Marius' companion, a sorrowful, miserable character who has long interested me. David Talbot (post The Tale of the Body Thief) persuades her to write in a pair of lovely notebooks, which she relates in her own tale in the novel Pandora.
Pandora's words bring me two thousand years back to Augustus's Rome, a vibrant world. I'm afraid of her first meeting with Marius when she's a young roman girl and he's a towering, attractive beast.
Lydia was her first name, and she is the narrator of this enthralling and perfectly plausible individual and global history. When she buys a lovely one-legged slave named Flavius, we are endowed with the type of absolutely realistic and unique figure Anne Rice regularly produces.
Despite the fact that Flavius likes boys, Pandora plainly loves and wants him as a partner. Pandora finally persuades her first crush, Marius, to grant her the Dark Gift, which she quickly regrets. They become a recurrent relationship, much like Louis and Lestat's inability to live together or emotionally separate.
The Anne Rice spell reveals a bizarre and charming vignette at the close of this miracle of people and places, including an elderly monk, beehives, and a type of scarecrow—unlike anything a lesser mind could conjure. It astounds me! The novel is deeply about the need for a companion and how difficult it may be to maintain it due to our human nature.
Final Thoughts:
Anne Rice is a must-read for everyone who is even somewhat interested in vampire literature. Anne Rice's vampires will appeal to everyone who detested the Twilight Saga and believed the main vampire was a sissy who sparkled. Her vampire may appear to be attractive and romantic, but their threat is always apparent.
No offense to Twilight Saga lovers; I enjoyed the novels as reading material, and I know some people who just enjoy reading about vampires, regardless of what sort of vampire they are reading about or who wrote it. My purpose was simply to explain the differences between the vampires in these series.
Simply go to Anne Rice's author page by clicking on her name or just click here. Begin with the first book, "Interview with a Vampire," and work your way through the entire series in order...perhaps even branching out into her Mayfair Witches trilogy, which mixes into the vampire world in a couple of volumes. I'm confident you'll appreciate all of the books and have a great time reading them.
Synopsis:
“Pandora is the first in a series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out 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 2,000 years old, a child of the millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life through the ages.
Pandora carries you back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, where she meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. She is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. You then 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 the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.
Pandora is Volume 1 of The New Tales of the Vampires.”
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Rating: 85/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.
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