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Review: Latest Anne Rice fabulously campy
By Rebecca Ascher-Walsh
Entertainment Weekly
(Entertainment Weekly) -- It's important to read Anne Rice's "Blackwood Farm" very, very quickly.
Dawdle for a moment, and the ludicrousness of it might make you giggle: a bisexual bloodsucker with his very own Goblin, who serves as his best friend or sexual partner depending on his mood?
A vampire hermaphrodite who was once a gladiator in ancient Rome?
And let's not even start on the flowery writing.
But the thing is, in between the tittering fits, this is kind of a fabulous read.
Over-the-top? Most definitely.
Campy? Without a doubt.
But Rice tells a mean ghost story, filled with blood, sex, and bloody sex.
And who would complain about that?
Grade: B
