By: Anne Rice
Plot: Lucky the Fox is a contract killer working for the good guys. He came from a sad childhood with a corrupt police officer for a father, who ends up being convicted and killed in prison. This causes his mother to drink, and eventually she kills her two other children and commits suicide herself.
Young Toby O'Dare (his given name) leaves New Orleans and moves to New York, where he changes his name to Vincenzo, and begins working for man named Alonzo, who acts as a father figure and takes the boy under his wing and lets him play his lute at Alonzo's restaurant. When the Russian Mafia moves into the area and kills most of Alonzo's family, Trying to force Alonzo to sell his land, Vincenzo seeks revenge and takes out the whole organization before lunch, including all the bankers and other business partners involved.
This is where he is drafted and trained to be an assassin for the American government, and starts working for "The Right Man" as lucky the fox. He becomes a soulless, methodical killer, without a care for who he is killing or why.
After completing a job at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, a large historic Mission Revival style hotel where Lucky felt like he could be himself, he is visited by a seraph named Malchiah. Malchiah tells him that there is a battle for his soul taking place and asks for Toby's help. When Toby (because he will no longer think of himself as Lucky) decides he will take the chance, he is thrust back into 13th century England.
Here he will hear the tale of a tragic love, one that binds a Christian man and a Jewish woman in spirit only, and must decide if he will help this woman or not. She is surrounded by greed, bigotry, and tragedy all around. Will Toby save her, and thus, save his soul as well?
Review: Oh the attention to detail in this novel. Pictures are painted in paragraphs and paragraphs in this novel, so many in fact that the action and plot will sometimes get lost within. If you can tolerate all the detail to get to the story, it is quite well written and evokes strong emotion from topics that still exist today. The sadness people must have felt living in times with so many prejudices must have been very difficult indeed.
That being said, this tale of woe is very captivating, and the book is written like having three stories in one: The Life of Toby, The Life Of Vincenzo, and The Life of Brother Toby, with Lucky The Fox as the Narrator.
Discussion: Anne Rice has totally about-faced in her style of writing, going from Gothic style Vampire novels to God fearing angel ones. I myself would like to see Lestat again. Do you think she should have made the genre switch?
Young Toby O'Dare (his given name) leaves New Orleans and moves to New York, where he changes his name to Vincenzo, and begins working for man named Alonzo, who acts as a father figure and takes the boy under his wing and lets him play his lute at Alonzo's restaurant. When the Russian Mafia moves into the area and kills most of Alonzo's family, Trying to force Alonzo to sell his land, Vincenzo seeks revenge and takes out the whole organization before lunch, including all the bankers and other business partners involved.
This is where he is drafted and trained to be an assassin for the American government, and starts working for "The Right Man" as lucky the fox. He becomes a soulless, methodical killer, without a care for who he is killing or why.
After completing a job at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, a large historic Mission Revival style hotel where Lucky felt like he could be himself, he is visited by a seraph named Malchiah. Malchiah tells him that there is a battle for his soul taking place and asks for Toby's help. When Toby (because he will no longer think of himself as Lucky) decides he will take the chance, he is thrust back into 13th century England.
Here he will hear the tale of a tragic love, one that binds a Christian man and a Jewish woman in spirit only, and must decide if he will help this woman or not. She is surrounded by greed, bigotry, and tragedy all around. Will Toby save her, and thus, save his soul as well?
Review: Oh the attention to detail in this novel. Pictures are painted in paragraphs and paragraphs in this novel, so many in fact that the action and plot will sometimes get lost within. If you can tolerate all the detail to get to the story, it is quite well written and evokes strong emotion from topics that still exist today. The sadness people must have felt living in times with so many prejudices must have been very difficult indeed.
That being said, this tale of woe is very captivating, and the book is written like having three stories in one: The Life of Toby, The Life Of Vincenzo, and The Life of Brother Toby, with Lucky The Fox as the Narrator.
Discussion: Anne Rice has totally about-faced in her style of writing, going from Gothic style Vampire novels to God fearing angel ones. I myself would like to see Lestat again. Do you think she should have made the genre switch?
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