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Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra Paperback – November 21, 2017
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In this mesmerizing, glamorous tale of ancient feuds and modern passions, Ramses has reawakened Cleopatra with the same perilous elixir whose unworldly force brings the dead back to life. But as these ancient rulers defy one another in their quest to understand the powers of the strange elixir, they are haunted by a mysterious presence even older and more powerful than they, a figure drawn forth from the mists of history who possesses spectacular magical potions and tonics eight millennia old. This is a figure who ruled over an ancient kingdom stretching from the once-fertile earth of the Sahara to the far corners of the world, a queen with a supreme knowledge of the deepest origins of the elixir of life.
She may be the only one who can make known to Ramses and Cleopatra the key to their immortality—and the secrets of the miraculous, unknowable, endless expanse of the universe.
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAnchor
- Publication dateNovember 21, 2017
- Dimensions5.16 x 0.82 x 7.99 inches
- ISBN-101101970324
- ISBN-13978-1101970324
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Praise for Anne Rice and Christopher Rice's RAMSES THE DAMNED
"It's got the Edwardian feel that we've come to expect of Anne Rice's best novels, and it's got something more ... Tying feudal pasts with modern passions, Anne Rice and Christopher Rice have crafted a supreme sequel."
--Mountain Times.com
"An entertaining soap opera replete with romantic alliances, betrayals, and ends left tantalizingly loose as grist for sequels. Fans of both authors' work will enjoy this one."
--Publishers Weekly
"Mesmerizing ... mother and son have triumphed in their first team-up effort. ... An enthralling story rendered with the full flourish of a classic Rice tale ... a superb, philosophically deep sequel to 1989's The Mummy. This mother/son team-up is a resounding success and leaves us eager for more."
--Andrea Sefler, Pop Mythology
"Rice (Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, 2016) continues the tale begun almost 30 years ago in The Mummy (1989) with the help of her novelist son, Christopher (The Heavens Rise, 2013), and it has been worth the wait. This thrilling read blends historial fiction, fantasy, and romance into a book readers will not be able to put down."
--Booklist
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It was a tale told by the newspapers in 1914—of a spectacular find by a British Egyptologist in an isolated tomb outside of Cairo—a royal mummy of Egypt’s greatest monarch and, beside his painted sarcophagus, a vast collection of ancient poisons and a journal in Latin, written in the time of Cleopatra, comprising some thirteen scrolls.
Call me Ramses the Damned. For that is the name I have given myself. But I was once Ramses the Great of Upper and Lower Egypt, slayer of the Hittites, father of many sons and daughters, who ruled Egypt for sixty-four years. My monuments are still standing; the stele recount my victories, though a thousand years have passed since I was pulled, a mortal child, from the womb.
Ah, fatal moment now buried by time, when from a Hittite priestess I took the cursed elixir. Her warnings I would not heed. Immortality I craved. And so I drank the potion in the brimming cup . . .
. . . How can I bear this burden any longer? How can I endure the loneliness anymore? Yet I cannot die . . .
So wrote a being who claimed to have lived a thousand years, slumbering in darkness when the great kings and queens of his realm had no need of him, ever ready to be resurrected at their command to offer wisdom and counsel—until the death of Cleopatra and of Egypt itself drove him to an eternal rest.
What was the world to make of this bizarre tale, or the fact that Lawrence Stratford, discoverer of the mystery, died in the tomb itself at the moment of his greatest triumph?
Julie Stratford, daughter of the great Egyptologist and sole heiress to the Stratford Shipping fortune, brought the controversial mummy to London, along with the mysterious scrolls and poisons, to honor her father’s discovery with a private exhibition in her home in Mayfair. Within days Julie’s cousin, Henry, made frantic claims that the mummy had risen from its sarcophagus and tried to murder him, and talk of a mummy’s curse astonished Londoners. Before rumors could die down, Julie appeared in public with a mysterious blue-eyed Egyptian named Reginald Ramsey, who then journeyed with Julie back to Cairo in the company of beloved friends Elliott, the Earl of Rutherford, and his young son, Alex Savarell, and the aggrieved Henry.
More shocking events unfolded.
An unidentified corpse stolen from the Cairo Museum, grisly murders amongst the European shopkeepers of the city, and Ramsey himself sought by the Cairo police, and the disappearance of Henry. Finally, a fiery explosion left baffled witnesses and a frantic Alex Savarell grieving for a nameless woman who had fled the Cairo Opera House in terror, driving her motorcar into the path of an oncoming train.
Out of chaos and mystery, Julie Stratford emerged as the devoted fiancée of the enigmatic Reginald Ramsey, traveling Europe with her beloved, while in England the Savarell family sought to understand the exile of the Earl of Rutherford and the grief of young Alex for the woman he had so tragically lost to the flames in the Egyptian desert. Gossip dies down; newspapers move on.
As our story opens, the country estate of the Earl of Rutherford will soon be the location of the engagement party for Reginald Ramsey and Julie Stratford, as others far and wide hear echoes of the story of the immortal Ramses the Damned and his fabled elixir, though the mummified body itself, brought to London with such fanfare, has long since vanished.
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- Publisher : Anchor; 1st THUS edition (November 21, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1101970324
- ISBN-13 : 978-1101970324
- Item Weight : 9.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.16 x 0.82 x 7.99 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #34,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #415 in Occult Fiction
- #1,864 in Romantic Fantasy (Books)
- #3,354 in Paranormal & Urban Fantasy (Books)
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About the author

Christopher Rice is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and is the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of A Density of Souls; Bone Music, Blood Echo, and Blood Victory in the Burning Girl series; and Bram Stoker Award finalists The Heavens Rise and The Vines. An executive producer for television, he collaborated with his mother Anne Rice on the novel Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra and Ramses The Damned: The Reign of Osiris. Together with his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, Christopher runs the production company Dinner Partners. Among other projects, they produce the podcast and video network TDPS, which can be found at www.TheDinnerPartyShow.com. He lives in West Hollywood, California, and writes tales of romance between men under the pseudonym C. Travis Rice. Visit him at www.christopherricebooks.com.
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By Anne Rice & Christopher Rice
Genre - Literary Fiction
Category - Historical Fiction/Romance/Paranormal/Gothic
Pages - 416
Publication Info - Anchor; Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed edition (November 21, 2017)
Format - Paperback
Rating - 📙📙📙📙📙
First and foremost Ramses the Damned:The Passion of Cleopatra by Anne Rice & Christopher Rice is a stunning and masterful collaboration. And add to that it’s a collaboration from two of my favorite authors I couldn’t be happier. If you’re familiar with the writing of each of these talented authors on their own you can pretty much see their individual touches throughout this exciting read. Now, it’s been years since I read The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, and I did not read it again prior to reading this one, but that really it’s no never mind… this can easily be enjoyed on its own merits. There were bits and pieces from the first book that did come back to me whilst reading this one so it all pretty much came together for me when it was all said and done. I do think it’s possible to read and enjoy this book without having read the first one however. I’m a big fan of both authors, and it was such a wonderful experience to be able to read something they both had a hand and heart in. Quite simply put, in my opinion, it’s a beautifully and masterfully written piece of literary fiction.
From the back cover: It begins with the heroic Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Damned mysteriously awakened after centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dizzying world of Edwardian England, seeking to wed the great beauty and heiress Julie Stratford, whom Ramses has given the same elixir that has rendered him immortal.
Now, with his bride-to-be, he is swept up in a fierce battle of wills against an ancient love, the exquisite and dangerous Queen Cleopatra, whose mummy he has recklessly brought back to life.
As these two magnificent rulers are caught up in a furious struggle to understand the powers of the extraordinary and wondrous potion, another, more ominous spirit makes its presence known, drawn forth from the mists of history - an ancient queen, possessor of the true origins of the elixir, who has an unrelenting fascination with the fates of Ramses II and Queen Cleopatra; the only force who can make known to these golden monarchs the key to their immortality and the secrets of the miraculous expanse of the universe. . .
About the Authors: (Goodreads Bio) Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) is a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematic focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.
She uses the pseudonym Anne Rampling for adult-themed fiction (i.e., erotica) and A.N. Roquelaure for fiction featuring sexually explicit sado-masochism.
(Goodreads Bio) By the age of 30, Christopher Rice had published four New York Times bestselling thrillers, received a Lambda Literary Award and been declared one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive. His two novels of dark supernatural suspense, THE HEAVENS RISE and THE VINES, were both finalists for the Bram Stoker Award. He recently entered the erotic romance genre with three works in all new series called The Desire Exchange. They include THE FLAME, THE SURRENDER GATE and KISS THE FLAME.. His debut novel, A DENSITY OF SOULS, was published when the author was just 22 years old. A controversial and overnight bestseller, it was greeted with a landslide of media attention, much of it devoted to the fact that Christopher is the son of famed vampire chronicler, Anne Rice. Together with his best friend, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, Christopher launched his own Internet radio show. THE DINNER PARTY SHOW WITH CHRISTOPHER RICE & ERIC SHAW QUINN Every episode is available for free download from the site's show archive or on iTunes. Subscribe to The Dinner Party Show's You Tube channel to get all of their newest content in 2016.
I am not going to talk to much about the story itself, the synopsis and other reviewers are doing that, I want to talk about the whole story that is told in 2 books that took 7-8 years or more to write. I consider this combined story a bit of a masterpiece, there was nothing to scan because you were afraid you would miss something, the characters were riveting and the multiple plots converging was masterful and exceptional.
Both books shared a similar multiple plot style merging and culminating in some event, I loved it and most authors could not have pulled it off. I am not a big Anne Rice fan and sadly these 2 books and her masterpiece Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, Book 1) are still the only books of hers I would tell anyone to spend their money on but these 3 are worth every penny.
This new installment did not disappoint. I appreciated the fact that Anne Rice relied on hey audience having read the previous book. Far too many contemporary authors spend too much time retelling the story from the previous novel in the series. It was a breath of fresh air.
I would consider the book to be classified as a fantasy thriller. I wouldn’t necessarily consider it a horror. The book was loaded with suspense and I found it rather hard to put it down once I started reading. The tale starts of almost at the exact moment the first book left off. You find all the characters enjoying there new found freedom to roam about the world with out a care in the world. This mentality was quickly interrupted by the return of Cleopatra, Ramses nemesis; from then on the story waits.
My only complaint, I really wouldn’t call it that was that I felt like some of the themes throughout the book were taken from two of her previous novels, The Wolves of Midwinter and Queen of the Damned. I really don’t want to go into to much more information because I absolutely hate when I read reviews and the entire story is written within them.
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The story never becomes engaging, there are far too many characters.
Ramses and Cleopatra feature only occasionally, and they never become central to the story. I gave up half way thru the book. Sad.



