“Merrick” brings Anne Rice’s vampires and her Mayfair witches into one book, and the prose keeps its strength. Some readers find that, in this seventh volume of “The Vampire Chronicles”, the witch’s past fills most of the pages while little happens in the present, and that the familiar vampires stay at the margins. It suits those who read Rice for her writing and who know both of her series.

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About the book

Merrick is a 2000 vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the seventh book in her The Vampire Chronicles series. The novel includes some characters who cross over from Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy (1990–1994). Elements of the novel were incorporated in the episode "Montreal" of The Vampire Lestat.

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7.07.58.0

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7.07.58.0

1976198519881992199519982000200120022003201420162018

Score per volume13 volumes on a timeline, 1976 to 2018 · Best-rated volume: The Vampire Lestat

Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.1 across 109 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.3 comes out.