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Audio CD Description Her first book since Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones. He is ghost, genji, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to the Europe of the Black Death and to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.

Customer Reviews More of the same from Rice Anne Rice continues to be one of the most frustrating bestselling authors to read. Two stars is being very charitable for this work, maybe her worst since _The Mummy_ or the colossally bad _Queen of the Damned_. This novel finds Azriel, the titular Servant of the Bones, relating his story to a biographer, a la Rice's first novel, Interview with the Vampire. The form is completely ridiculous, with the entire novel being encompassed in quotation marks. The book is rife with poor writing, and Rice seems to be on a quest to contradict herself as much as possible. It's full of muddled, meaningless prose, expressing sentiments such as, "he yearned to be free, yet was drawn ever closer" etc, etc, etc. The dialogue is as stilted as ever, and the plot clearly just a rehashing of the ideas that she used in the Vampire Chronicles. The most disappointing aspect of all this is that this could have been an interesting novel (something that I would not say about everything Rice has written). You'd think that maybe a genii would have some interesting things to say, but instead we get a ludicrous plot about an incredibly powerful cult that wants to destroy the world. If you've seen it once, you've seen it a hundred times. Skip it. Bone Chilling... I say bone chilling not because it falls in the horror genre, but it is a soulful tale of a tenacious and lost man once in Babylon that became a spirit and god in his time. Battling both love and hate, Azriel (servant of the bones) takes us on his journey with his perspective of life - or the lack of. I do not recommend this book to those that don't have a fantastical, philosophical and/or curious mind. The characters are built superbly, the storyline a page turner, and all around thought provoking! If you like this book, you'll love Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. My favorite Anne Rice book! I'm not a big fan of the Vampire Chronicles, but I absolutely loved Rice's Mayfair Witch trilogy, and decided to give Servant of the Bones a shot. It was fabulous!! My favorite Anne Rice book to date. You will absolutely love Azriel and you'll be swept away by the world of Ancient Babylon.