With the possible exception of "Merrick", "Blackwood Farm" is perhaps the worst book Rice has written in years. Just when I thought I had seen the last of the excruciatingly boring Mayfair clan, they reappear in this cast of new duds, the Blackwoods. Most notably, one Tarquin Blackwood and the idiotic "Goblin". Quinn is the most inane caricature of a teenager ever written. Anne needs to take some lessons from Greg Berlanti if she hopes to bring this type of protagonist to life. She has failed miserably and only succeeds in irritating the reader beyond words. How the character Lestat could become interested in Quinn is beyond reason. He should have saved the world the misery of this book by offing the fledgling Quinn at the outset.