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Blood Canticle is a novel by Anne Rice in which she combines the new characters from her previous novel Blackwood Farm with those from her previous novels in The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches Series.Centered in New Orleans like many of Rice's novels, Blood Canticle centers around the relationship of a young Mayfair witch, named Mona. At the beginning of the novel, Mona is weak. As the novel plays out, Mona and her guardian, Rowan Mayfair, the current designee of the Mayfair legacy, reveal more and more about the powerful genetic plague that has haunted the Mayfairs for generations: the Taltos.
This book is in fact about Mona's struggle to survive. She is extremely weak after bearing a taltos child. And in order to survive the massive weakness that her body is undergoing, she becomes a vampire through Lestat's working of the Dark Trick. This is done also largely to satisfy Tarquin Blackwood, a friend and companion for Lestat.
Lestat's blood is quite powerful--second only to the queen and mother of the vampires and perhaps the children of the millennia. Mona learns this quickly and discovers that she can easily dispatch weaker vampires with the powerful gifts that Lestat's potent blood bestows upon her.
In short, she grows strong quickly. Now, with renewed vigor and anger over her situation with Rowan and their shared secret of the Taltos causes her to fight and wound Rowan and her husband Michael with hurtful words and emotions. As she struggles with herself, Lestat, and her vampiric lover, Quinn Blackwood, she learns her place in her new night world.
As she learns, Lestat pledges to find the Taltos child of Mona if it still lives. For this, Lestat enlists the help of Maharet, the queen and mother of the vampires. Even Lestat alludes to the powerful strength of Maharet in her jungle abode. In a very short time, due to the technology of email, Maharet provides critical information for their search.
The story comes to a dramatic conclusion where Mona, journeying with Quinn and Lestat, come to the secluded island where the Taltos live. But instead of a secluded paradise, the three vampires learn about years of intregue and civil war among this isolated race of beings. In the end, the remaining Taltos join the Mayfair clan at the medical center in New Orleans. This place keeps them safe. Furthermore, it provides a place where the Taltos can learn and be together as a family.
Once the quest is completed, Rowan Mayfair cannot return to her normal life and strives to become a vampire through the Dark Trick worked by Lestat. He declines but assents that later he will transform her. Mona and Quinn are again together and will remain so, presumably without the companionship of Lestat.
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