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    Fury at Troon's Ferry

    By Mark Bannerman

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    Darkness was taking hold as he strode purposefully up the street. The air was cold, bringing a shiver to his spine and all the stores were closed and the sidewalks quiet. The only sounds came from the saloon; the desultory notes of a piano, the clink of glasses, the raucous voices of men and the shrill laughter of women. His wife, Leah, had once told him that nothing was achieved by violence. Now he was convinced that she'd been wrong. The desire to inflict vengeance brought the bitter taste of bile to his mouth. Before bullets started flying, as surely they must, would he be able to extract the truth from the man he sought . . . and despised?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Hale
    Release dateJan 31, 2013
    ISBN9780719809798
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    • 4/5
      After a very long hiatus, I recently got back into Anne Rice, having read the first three books of THE VAMPIRE CHORNICLES many years ago. In THE VAMPIRE ARMAND, she takes one of her secondary characters from those books and gives him the center stage, letting him tell his story to the fledging vampire David Talbot in the wake of the events from MEMNOCH THE DEVIL. This book was written back in 1998, after Rice herself had stayed away from her beloved creatures of the night for a few years, but she clearly knew what her fans wanted, and most of all, liked in her fiction, so she went back to dancing with the ones who brought her. Only this dance was not with Lestat, her most famous and popular character, but with Armand, a teenage vampire with the face of an angel. What she was doing was obvious, expanding her vampire universe and seeing if she could do it without relying on, and in the process, exhausting, her most popular character.How good were the results? I think this book will certainly please die hard Rice fans, for all the stuff she does well in on display here, including her mastery of characterization; her ability to make bygone cultures come to life on her pages, and not only that, but long vanished cities and places return in vivid detail. There are arcs in ARMAND that are Rice the story teller at her best, especially in first half, where Armand narrates how he was kidnapped as a child in medieval Russia and sold into slavery in Constantinople, only to be rescued by the ancient vampire Marius, who was once a Roman senator, and brought to the Venice of the Renaissance, where he lives in a house filled with other boys such as himself. How Armand comes to receive the Dark Gift and a subsequent trip back to Russia with Marius, where he is very briefly reunited with his grieving parents, is Rice at her best. In the other books, we have always seen Armand through the eyes of Lestat and Louis, but here we see him in full, and learn that he is truly a damaged child, eternally in search of the love he lost when the home of his maker was destroyed by fanatical blood drinkers. Attempts to find it in a coven underneath Rome, and later in Paris with Lestat, do not work out. Later, in the aftermath of the events of MEMNOCH, a badly burned and injured Armand is rescued by two precocious human children named Sybelle and Benji, and he has a chance to find love and a family once again, but this being Anne Rice, she throws in another twist before the resolution in the last pages. And if the best of Anne Rice is on display, some of her worst faults can be found in ARMAND as well, starting with her well known penchant for over description, making sure we know everything about every crook and nanny of every house, hovel, palace, basement, and back room, it is a wonder she doesn?t describe the interior of the rat?s holes. Rice?s characters always talk a lot, her chatty undead are a staple that many love about her books, but boy do they talk here, as some scenes run on pages longer than they should. In the second half, there are long arguments about faith, philosophy, the nature of man and the mind of God, and what Christ meant. This has always been seen as Rice working out her own views on God and religion and man, and while I do not have a problem with it, I can see how this might try the patience of many readers. Some have noted that Rice was so successful at this point in her career that she no longer had an editor when she wrote this book, if it is true, then it certainly shows. Also, the ever present homo eroticism is not everyone?s cup of tea, and the part of the book concerning the Roman vampire Marius and his house filled with boys may make some uncomfortable in what it implies, but this is Rice portraying an older, and distinctly non Christian culture.In the end, I found Armand to be good company, and an excellent narrator, treating the reader as an equal, as someone worthy enough to share his story with. There have been preparations for a TV series based on THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES, and I am sure that sooner or later, it will come to pass. When this happens, hopefully, they will do justice to Armand?s side of the story.
    • 5/5
      This was my favorite book by Anne Rice. I absolutely fell in love with Armand. All of her books are amazing, but Armand is my favorite character.
    • 2/5
      Gay vampire sex, Armand gets duped into joining/leading a cult, Lestat fucks shit up (as usual), Armand and Marius make amends. The end. Not her best work by any means.
    • 5/5
      I was seduced. Another time the lesson was learned. NEVER read anything outside the privacy of your home for the first time. You never know what emotions lay in a book. You never know how you might be affected.
    • 3/5
      Practically Gay-porn.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful read.
    • 4/5
      As with the previous book I enjoyed this story more during this reread than I did when I first read it years ago. Then, I was enamored with Lestat and only felt annoyed at all the other story. This time I was able to really fall into Armand's story. There are still parts of Rice's writing that I scan over - the flowery descriptions of the landscape for instance. You can certainly see her as an author warring with her own beliefs in these last few books. It shows in her character's widely different beliefs. Great series! So on I go to plow through the rest of the books.
    • 1/5
      I grow weary of La Rice. It's all the same now and way too talky. She's getting preachy as well. Too much of her personal religion is showing through. A Christian vampire -- yeah, right.
    • 1/5
      I'm completely unable to like this book. I just can't. I only read it because I'm a fan of Anne Rice's Vampires' series. I was never really Armand's fan and this book only made me hate him even more. I even tried to see the story through his and Marius' point of view, but no matter how beautiful may be the story of a mature man trapped in a angel-like boy, the constant and exhaustive repetition of this fact is simply annoying. Armand himself thinks he is too much of an adult, but during the WHOLE BOOK his acts contradict his thoughts. And there are too many things that Armand does that you just can't understand and not even his moments of supposedly "insanity" explain, unlike what happens with Lestat.

      The little flashback scenes of the red-haired baby-vampire were only enough to increase my hatred towards this childish character, that did nothing more than cry for his master during more than half of the book (so that he would abandon him for no plausible reason). The only thing that made me want to finish reading this book was nearly the ending, when he finally realizes his own mistakes.

      Absolutely awful. I'd even read VIOLIN again, but won't ever want to look at this book ever again.
    • 2/5
      I'm not sure if it's because of the recent chaos going on in my life or if this book really wasn't that great... It bored me. It couldn't hold my attention at all. This book took me longer to read than any of the rest of the series has.

      I did like some of the imagery in this book, but at points there was so much imagery I forgot what the plotline was in the time it took me to read the descriptive paragraphs...
    • 4/5
      After a not-so-impressive (to me) story of Memnoch the Devil, Rice has drawn me back in with Armand telling his story. He goes back to when he first met Marius, his time as a coven leader, the Theater of the Vampires, all the way to modern times when he saw the Veil.

      A definite good read!
    • 3/5
      Good Rice and a good narrator for a good tale. Of all the vampire tales, and other than _Lestat_, this is my fave.
    • 2/5
      Couldn't finish it. Soft porn, and pretty boring porn at that.
    • 5/5
      Lestat lies in a coma-like sleep in a chapel and while vampires gathers around him, Armand tells his story to David Talbot, Lestat?s former Talamascan fledgling. Armand takes us with him through his childhood in Kiev; from where he is kidnapped and sold to slavery, to Venice where Marius saves him and eventually gives the dark gift and to Paris where he led his Satanic Vampire cult.

      Maybe I should start this telling that this was 4th or 5th time reading this and yep, I still love it! Armand?s always been my favourite so it?s no surprise I love this.
      It?s been over 8 years since I?ve last read this, and long before I had even heard about blogs etc., so it was interesting to read it again. And it seems my book taste hasn?t changed since I was 15? And oh why it?s so hard to write about books you loved!

      When Armand lived in Kiev as a child he painted beautiful icons and was meant to join the monks so he had pretty religious upbringing, which shows through his life and is constant theme through the book.

      I?ve always loved the chapter where Marius takes Armand back to Kiev after turning him. He could let the past go little after meeting his family and his father who was such a huge presence in his life.

      They didn?t have that many years together with Marius but it was a big part of his life when he was loved and (relatively) safe. And I was dreading to reach the part where it would all be ruined!
      It?s been told in previous books that he was the leader of the vampire cult that imprisoned Lestat but now we see how he became part of it.

      You can see the growing theme with Christianity on Rice?s books here and while I?m not even remotely religious it didn?t bother me. I love the writing style and the descriptive writing but that may not be to everyone?s liking.
    • 4/5
      A very good book and very historically fresh. I recommend it.
    • 4/5
      Armand is one of the more interesting vampires, but I'm getting a bit tired of this series.
    • 1/5
      Well written but SO boring and slow, didn't even finish it. I was tired of explicit sex scenes and Armand's fascination with sex.
    • 4/5
      The reader is taken on a journey seeing this time through the eye's of Armand, the beautiful boy vampire of over 500 years old. His life story is unfolded and a better grasp is discovered as to why he lived the way he did as a coven leader under the tombs of Paris for 300+ years. He is overcome by Veronica's veil which Lestat brought back from Hell and goes into the sun only to be saved by the love he has for two mortals. At times the book is very sexually explicit.
    • 4/5
      Aaaaah, Armand. I absolutely LOVE Armand's story. Brought into the blood by Marius, only after a childhood full of tragedy and pain, Armand is one of the most well spoken vampires. The passion shared between Master and pupil is breathtaking, and the narrative is full of philosophy and art.
    • 5/5
      My favorite Vampire Chronicle. Armand is the best vampire in the series. I was ecstatic to get a book devoted to him.
    • 1/5
      Not a good book. I couldn't get past the first half.
    • 3/5
      After the horror that was Memnoch the Devil I was looking for Anne Rice to redeem herself in The Vampire Armand. In some ways I was gratified in this hope while in others I was utterly disappointed. Though The Vampire Armand echoed back to the magnificence of Anne Rice?s earlier work which I so loved and longed for it also incorporated Memnoch the Devil and all the vices of the Christian religion. Though this novel is in many respects a retelling of past events already relayed by Louis and Lestat I still found myself captivated by the beauty of Armand?s tale told from his own point of view. It has been years since I read the novels in which the vampire child Armand first appeared and I was delighted to revisit the tales that had so enchanted me, however, all this was so besotted with religion and theology that the enjoyment was somewhat diluted. Unlike most people who seemed to dislike the rampant sexual scenes that permeated the first half of the novel as Armand luxuriated in Marius?s lavish attentions, I was entranced. I did not merely enjoy it for its eroticism but for the passion and love which blossomed from Armand and Marius, so uninhibited by societal judgments of gender or age. After these happy years spent in Venice the novel seemed to decline into another ludicrous argument of theology and worship of Christ. I found myself agreeing with the words spoken by Pandora near the end of the novel: ?Christ was never my god?. I do not believe in God or Jesus and I do not believe that I ever have or that I ever shall. For me all of this talk of ?Our Living Lord? was offensive and rather dull. I am sure that many Anne Rice fans will find The Vampire Armand captivating but I myself was inhibited by my own personal beliefs from enjoying this book thoroughly. In the end it did surpass Memnoch and it was not without its charms. If you are a fan of Anne Rice this is still a must read.
    • 3/5
      The 'autobiography' of the Vampire Armand, from his birth in Kiev Rus up to and including the events of Memnoch the Devil.While Armand's life and history were interesting, and something I've been curious about since I read Interview with the Vampire, I was not entertained by the theological discourses Rice has seen fit to engage her characters in more and more frequently in the last couple Vampire Chronicles. Also, an odd juxtaposition, a lot of the description of Armand's sexual relationships with Marius, Bianca, and others. Overall, it was okay, and I suppose essential to the series.
    • 2/5
      Book in a minute: Capture! Pedophilia! Burnination! Loneliness. Lestat. And whining. Liberally sprinkled with whining. If I were a vampire, I would always keep a flame-thrower in my pocket. Just in case I ran into Armand in some dark alley and didn't miss my chance to torch his silly ass.For die-hard fans only.
    • 3/5
      I always thought Armand was a bit of a whiner, but this book only further proves my point. For lovers of the series, it's a decent read but by no means worthy on its own. Appropriate for high school and beyond.
    • 2/5
      A common theme among Amme Rice's novels is that a majority of her characters are either blatantly homosexual or at least have homosexual tendencies, but none come to the level that this book does. A majority of the book (up until Armand becomes a vampire) focuses on Armand having sex with Marius, having sex with other boys, having sex with girls but then comparing it to having sex with boys. Meanwhile the rest of the imagery falls to the wayside. The book mostly takes place in Venice and it would seem that Venice is an uninteresting place given that it is described very little throughout the book.In other books, Armand always comes off as a highly intelligent, devious, schemer. In this book he is portrayed as whiny, self-absorbed, and hopelessly co-dependent. I was bored through most of the book, even though Armand was always one of my favorite Anne Rice characters.
    • 3/5
      I wish she would have talked more about the coven Armand was leading when Lestat found him than she did about the emotional turmoil that bound up his life. Armand, formerly Amadeo is a curiously impotent creature. He never does anything himself and never is aggressive enough to free himself from the person who enslaves him (and someone always is). He?s a wimp that does whatever anyone tells him. Amazing he survived so long.Marius does hold him in thrall. I always thought that Rice?s vampires were a race incapable of sex, but what Marius does with Amadeo certainly sounds like sex. One minute Armand is indignant that Marius won?t tell him the truth (about why he?s only active at night and his big time suck {Akasha & Enkil duties}) and is threatening to leave, and the next minute he?s groveling at his feet telling him how much he loves and needs Marius?s protection and love. So eventually, the sick and degenerated vampires catch up with Marius and set him on fire, destroy his home and capture his boys including Amadeo. They take Amadeo away with them to the Roman coven in the catacombs where they don?t let him feed and keep him weak so he can be more easily brainwashed into thinking that the life he lead with Marius was degenerate and corrupt and evil in God?s eyes. Eventually the lead into Armand?s cell, a young man Armand instantly devours. Only when he lets the corpse fall at his feet does he realize it?s his fellow inmate of Marius?s house, a boy he is very close to. This does him in and he becomes a child of darkness and part of the coven.He ends up in Paris where and eventually Lestat comes along and crashes the party. To make up for it, Lestat gives him the Theater of the Vampires which eventually breaks up also. The pattern remains intact anyway. He moves to Miami and then to New Orleans. This is where I can?t remember a lot of the other story that this one alludes to. The story of Lestat?s journey into heaven where he drinks Christ?s blood and his journey into hell where he loses an eye. He brings back some veil with Christ?s face on it (like the shroud of Turin) and Armand sees that it is The Lord and flips out. Lestat also flips out and throws himself face-down on the floor of a convent and does not move for years. Oh the angst and handwringing in this one. Emo-vampires.Armand goes into the sun when he sees the veil and he is rescued by 2 mortals ? Benji and Sybelle. They restore him and become his loves. Then he goes to Lestat to drink from him (which Lestat has not allowed before, killing those who have tried) because if he has the blood of Christ Armand will know the truth. He drinks and as far as I can tell has a hallucination not an epiphany. Lestat wakes up from his sleep and requests that Armand?s Sybelle play him the Appasionatta Sonata. The end.
    • 5/5
      Gutwrenching...racy...beautifully woven. Visceral. I was captured by the imagery and made breathless by the violence. Definitely one of the better works by Rice.
    • 3/5
      Plot: It's a re-hash of Armand's story as told in The Vampire Lestat, fleshed out in places. Not much new happens, so the narration plot is essentially known. The frame narration is in reaction to Memnoch the Devil and isn't as convincing as it could have been. Very weak ending. Characters: The characters already known from past books are changed to some extent, although they are still recognizable. Characterization is done via symbolism mostly, which tends to come across very heavy-handedly. New characters don't get the same amount of attention and stay flat and uninteresting. Style: Description. Some more description. Some religious thoughts. For a change, description. The book gets slowed down incredibly by it and becomes boring to read in quite a few places. Dialogue is usually good, but what is missed out on is utilizing the settings. Late Renaissance Italy could have yielded much more, same with the more medieval catacomb/monastery situations. Plus: Some parts are interesting to re-visit in greater detail. Minus: It's too baroque, too much description and decoration. The frame narration does not fit the style of the previous books and introduces unnecessary characters. Summary: This is the last of the better Vampire Chronicles; after this one the series went downhill rapidly.
    • 1/5
      Unreadable rubbish. Only the second book ever that I've never managed to make it all the way through, which given the amount of TV tie-in Doctor Who novels I've read really means something