Title: Another Disappointing Installment
Product review: Blackwood Farm was disappointing not because the plot was uniteresting but because the writing was so poor. As with so many of her books since The Queen of the Damned, Rice seems to have had no editor--no one to polish her writing. Where her writing used include exquisite descriptions, now it is overly flowery as if her writing has become an exaggeration of itself. It makes one wonder if she is really writing the books herself anymore. I found Lestat's repeated use of the nickname "little brother" annoying in its frequency as well as somewhat contradictory to his character. Quinn was almost too sensitive and melodramatic a creature to believe in or like. I believe it was curiostity, and not a love of the characters, that made me finish the book. The story line itself is interesting, its too bad that Rice's writing no longer lives up to her imagination.
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