Review of the Best and Worst Anne Rice's Books

Have Anne Rice’s novels literary quality? I don’t think she will win the Nobel Prize of Literature ever, but again, literature quality is subjective. Anne Rice wrote some entertaining books, she sells like crazy, and with no doubt, she is part of the contemporary literature world. I read her books in Spanish first, and I can say to make her justice, that the translations of her book are terrible, she definitely looses many points in unfair traduction. I will talk first about the books I did not like.

“The Mummy or Ramses the Damned”, this novel could be perfectly be published in Harlequin; it is a romantic empty bunch of pseudo sexual encounters between the mummy of an Egyptian cursed pharaoh and the stereotyped beautiful and sexy girl. Paragraphs full of clichés, unbelievable characters, and forced sensual atmosphere make this book the worst in Anne Rice’s work.

“Violin” is pretty boring; the main’s character personality is confusing, the descriptions tedious and the rithym slow. Again, we have tortured relationships, a mature woman interacts with a ghost, but Rice’s style gets so baroque that after a couple of pages the reader’s headache becomes a migraine.

“Eden”, published under the pseudonym Anne Rampling, goes between the pseudo erotic boring pamphlet and the miserable intent to portrait an independent but lonely woman. The writing quality is poor, but does not matter; reader is so embarrassed with the story that does not even perceive it. It is the story of a woman who works training sexual slaves. It is true, I promise.