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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
the story of the red headed twins and the origin of vampires was soooo complex and at times hard to follow but very cool. honestly akasha was making some good points!!! she kind of is that diva. I absolutely ATE UP Daniel and Armand in this book. also LOUSTAT LOVE CONFESSION WHO CHEERED?!??!! the end of the book just Lestat having a kink for Louis getting mad at him and calling him the devil…I giggled.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Anne Rice stands out among fiction writers for her characterization and world-building, adding in countless layers to her vampire mythology within Queen of the Damned and introducing a score of interesting characters who all play their parts well within this ensemble.
With a deeply connected history unveiled to us throughout, readers are swept away into the story - sometimes losing the overarching plot. At times, it’s bewildering to think that this all started with the story of Louis in Interview with the Vampire as we are now fully enthralled with Lestat (an almost minor character in that story). All in all it’s a great adventure full of fun characters and interlocking stories that all come together for our new coven.
With a deeply connected history unveiled to us throughout, readers are swept away into the story - sometimes losing the overarching plot. At times, it’s bewildering to think that this all started with the story of Louis in Interview with the Vampire as we are now fully enthralled with Lestat (an almost minor character in that story). All in all it’s a great adventure full of fun characters and interlocking stories that all come together for our new coven.
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I realized, for how much Anne Rice I read in my teens and 20s I had somehow never actually read QotD. I blame the god awful movie coming out in my teens.
Queen of the Damned is a 300+ page discourse on what is possible, what is desirable, and what we are willing to tolerate to get there. In addition to the ongoing exploration of vampires losing but trying to retain their humanity over eons, the character of Akasha gives us a dialectical conflict against the status quo.
Akasha's answer for all the madness and suffering in the world is monstrous. Rice intends it to be so because we are drawn to identify with the vampires, and the fans' love of Lestat earned her heaps of money, but the vampires we love are on balance no better than Akasha in their disregard for the sanctity of human life.
Lestat and Marius may wax eloquently about the beautiful struggle of loving humanity while eating them, but Akasha is right that this is nothing more than moralizing and rationalization. A vampire who truly believes that human life is beautiful and sacred would starve itself, or go the Louis du Point deLac route and subsist off animals.
In 2024 post Twilight and Vampire Diaries, a week before the release of the remake of Nosferatu, the reminder that vampires by their nature are ugly, predatory, and an existential danger to their prey is a welcome rejoinder to two decades of trying to make them pretty and relatable in the mainstream.
Give me that good old time vampire gothic.
Queen of the Damned is a 300+ page discourse on what is possible, what is desirable, and what we are willing to tolerate to get there. In addition to the ongoing exploration of vampires losing but trying to retain their humanity over eons, the character of Akasha gives us a dialectical conflict against the status quo.
Akasha's answer for all the madness and suffering in the world is monstrous. Rice intends it to be so because we are drawn to identify with the vampires, and the fans' love of Lestat earned her heaps of money, but the vampires we love are on balance no better than Akasha in their disregard for the sanctity of human life.
Lestat and Marius may wax eloquently about the beautiful struggle of loving humanity while eating them, but Akasha is right that this is nothing more than moralizing and rationalization. A vampire who truly believes that human life is beautiful and sacred would starve itself, or go the Louis du Point deLac route and subsist off animals.
In 2024 post Twilight and Vampire Diaries, a week before the release of the remake of Nosferatu, the reminder that vampires by their nature are ugly, predatory, and an existential danger to their prey is a welcome rejoinder to two decades of trying to make them pretty and relatable in the mainstream.
Give me that good old time vampire gothic.
adventurous
dark
funny
informative
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
only read the Devil's Minion chapter.
will be reading the whole series from the beginning once my order arrives :D
will be reading the whole series from the beginning once my order arrives :D
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
The book that made me stop reading the Vampire Chronicles. It's just...boring. I didn't care about anyone in it. Some interesting stuff happens, but then she moves us to another part of the world where NOTHING interesting is happening. Everyone is going to a Lestat concert...but I didn't want to go.
The movie was crap. But everyone knows that.
The movie was crap. But everyone knows that.
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Violence
Moderate: Rape, Cannibalism
Minor: Addiction, Racism, Stalking
Orientalism
