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Servant of the Bones [Hardcover]

Anne Rice (Author)
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Publication Date: Mar 1999
In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.

He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: B E Trice Pub; Limited edition (Mar 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0963192566
  • ISBN-13: 978-0963192561
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.5 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,141,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Electrifying start to a new series about a rebel ghost with a dramatic , long and violent history which goes back to Babylon and ancient Juda ea. (19970103) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Born in New Orleans in 1941, the second daughter of an Irish Catholic family, Anne Rice is the author of the phenomenally successful Vampire Chronicles beginning with Interview with the Vampire. She has also written twenty-one other novels, including three books in the Mayfair Witches sequence. After many years in San Francisco, she now lives in her native New Orleans with her husband, the poet and university professor Stan Rice and their son. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars One of her best! 26 April 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Being a fan of the Vampire Chronicles (the 3 first books are brilliant!)I was pleasantly surprised by this variation. The book tells the story of Azriel, a young Babylonian man who dies and becomes a kind of genie, condemned to serve those who own his bones. It's a great story - very original- and sometimes very moving, that ends up being a great lesson about life. Recommended reading you all!
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars great! 28 April 2000
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Servant of the Bones is quite different from how you would percieve a typical Anne Rice book... no vampires for one thing... but I loved it! It details the life of Azriel, born in biblical times and his belief in a god that leads up to him being sacrificed for a faith he doesn't follow ... it's extremely moving, very sad story, but that's just the beginning of the book! The novel goes on to describe how Azriel becomes a spirit, the servant of the bones, for whoever owns his bones has mastery over him. Over many centuries and many countries serving many different masters, the tale finally concludes in modern-day New York. It's a great book, and I would recommend it to everyone!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A must buy for Anne Rice fans 15 Sep 1999
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
Anne Rice had an almost hypnotic affect on me when I read this book. The characters, story, background and the research put into this book are awesome. I practice Indian Jadoo, a form of spiritual and physical magic, and she has captured the element of Jadoo when she describes the ritual formed to create a servant of the bones. Do not try this at home, it won't work, you don't have the canaanite tablet anyway. You will turn into a maniac like myself and read this book whenever you want to escape from reality.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A New Kind of Romanticism. 9 Oct 2004
By Luke Dunn
Format:Paperback
Anne Rice has found a way in her books to resurrect the ancient and medieval worldviews of spirits, angels , gods and magic. She explores the humanity of characters against the backdrop of the old pantheons. There is a compelling kind of internal logic to all her stories and this one has it too. Servant of the Bones shows us how a spiritual entity who is immortal but chained to his bones like a genie to a lamp would actually feel.

In a strange way the message becomes one with which the reader is already familiar. There is a human truth to the story, which the supernatural elements surround like a mounted gem. If science fiction is about asking "what if?" then Rice's work is a "what if?" centered around her favourite themes of the supernatural, a belief system that has belonged to human beings for most of our history. While science has crowded out the possibility of believing in this stuff for many of us, Rice's work gives us a chance to live in the older world through her fictionalisation, and it answers a great need for mystery and myth. A really excellent read.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars He enfolded her in his muscular arms etc etc... 3 Oct 2005
By Crazy Punk
Format:Paperback
This book is a reasonably entertaining read, but I can't help but feel that Anne Rice is kind of like the Jilly Cooper of the supernatural novel world.
She picks up a few tropes of mythology from somewhere and uses it as a peg to hang a romantic novel on. That said, there are some good ideas going on here, the king for a day sacrifice used for the creation of an indestructible djinn. However, the plot is not so very far away from that of her vampire chronicles (mortal being, made into an immortal demon/vampire/spirit, experiences things humans can only dream about - exists for centuries etc gets involved in ever more melodramatic goings on until the whole thing erupts into a welter of grande guignol and bad dialogue). There's also the whole business with the cult which gets very silly indeed towards the end.
Although I might add that the spirit in this, against all probability, does actually manage to get his end away at one point and the description of the 'ahem' physical act of love verges on the unintentionally hilarious.
Whilst reading I can never quite get the image of Matt Lucas as Barbara Cartland out of my head: "And he took her in his arms and kissed her... the end!"
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5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book 24 Nov 2012
By gillyflower
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I loved it the first time I read it, years ago on loan, but couldn't remember who wrote it and wasn't sure of the title even though I remembered the story in great detail. So when I came across it I snapped it up. Then I found another copy in a bag of books someone gave me. I've taken that one to my house in France so that I can read it again whenever the fancy takes me. I re-read favourite books many times and this one fits that category.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Spirit World brought to life 25 Mar 2011
By Lee Hanley
Format:Paperback
What I like about Anne Rice is that she can bring to life a complex concept such as the spirit world and describe it in a totally believable and functioning manner. You begin to think that it could actually work in the way she envisions it and it becomes very real.

On top of that is an excellent story, initially an enjoyable rendering of Babylon and the Persian empire under Cyrus. In the middle of the book it drifts a little with a big time gap in Azrael's existence and then a slow build up to the final part. This eventually becomes a gripping and suspenseful story which has an excellent finish.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Started well but disappointing ending 21 July 2008
By Kaz
Format:Paperback
I am a fan of the vampire chronicles decided to read Servant Of The Bones because it seemed to keep to the mythology theme i enjoy.
It started well with all the 'olden time' tales that include religion, magic and curses. After you are given the intriging back story of his life and how he is passed onto his first master, Rice seems to give no imagination to his other masters or their story and can't wait to skip the book to modern day New York. The book becomes boring and predictable and I found myself skipping through the last half of the book to an ending I saw coming a while ago. Very disappointing after such an interesting start to the book.
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