Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: The magic is gone

I just finished reading "The Vampire Armand" and I find myself asking the same question I've asked at the end of the last three or four Anne Rice books. That question is, "What has happened to quality of Anne Rice's books." I've read all of her books to date and enjoyed many of her early Vampire novels. However, the most recent ones have just been bad. Sure, they are light reading. You can finish them in about six hours. They all have bright moments. But are they satisfying? No. Perhaps she is turning them out too fast. Whatever the case, "The Vampire Armand" is light years away from "Interview with a Vampire" or "The Witching Hour".