Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice

82 reviews

cecilyroseceillam's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Starting my yearly re read of the vampire chronicles, I obviously had to start with interview. This book is amazing and highly worth reading, the character development is amazing and following them is so interesting, Claudia is personally my favourite and I love her story, where she’s turned against her will into a vampire after her mother has died and she grows up while her body doesn’t. It’s extremely tragic and very beautifully written; I love her character development too and seeing what she deals with as a woman stuck in a child’s body. I also enjoy reading the relationship between Louis and lestat and how toxic and abusive lestat is and how Louis continues it on to Claudia, I think the dynamic between them is very interesting. Overall I’d highly recommend this book if you have not read it, the dynamics of abuse and power struggles are very well explained through Louis, lestat and Claudia's relationship and how it’s continued on and it’s direct consequences. The descriptions are also extremely beautiful and I love the way Anne rice describes New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It’s so visceral and captivating, especially in the way she describes clothes. I also really like the way she describes certain areas as being like perfume and bringing back memories, it adds a unique way to describe nostalgia or deja vu without being super obvious but still can be understood. Overall I’d highly recommend anyone read this as I think everyone can get something from it and take something from it, whatever it be from the writing itself, descriptions or relationship dynamics.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Suicidal thoughts

e_starlight's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

phillyhufflepunk's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 64%

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There's only so much casual pedophilia I can take. I tried to finish just to finish. I can briefly tolerate  that Louie is an unreliable narrator and begrudgingly read through it even though he doesn't seem to show any character growth in the hundreds of years since he was a bored, unthinking plantation owner who cared more about capitalism than the humanity of the people who worked his land. I just couldnt do it for nearly 300 pages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment

eauderat's review against another edition

2.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Colonisation

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Sexism, Dementia, Death of parent, Classism

nerdkitten's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Gun violence, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Excrement, Medical content, Dementia, Abandonment, Colonisation

gabriella_'s review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I felt a lot of things reading this book - parts of it are deeply problematic (re: Claudia), but if you go in the with a grain of salt and self care ready, I think this is a solid read

The yearning is so strong in this book. There are moments where Louis’ sorrow is so tangible it has a physicality. It drapes over the narrative of prose of the book like a curtain.

“I didn’t know I thought these things. I spoke them now as my thoughts. And they were my most profound feelings taking a shape they could never have taken had I not spoken them, had I not thought them out this way in conversation with another. I thought myself then possessed of a passive mind, in a sense. I mean that my mind could only pull itself together, formulate thought out of the muddle of longing and pain, when it was touched by another mind; fertilized by it; deeply excited by that other mind and driven to form conclusions. I felt now the rarest, most acute alleviation of loneliness.  I could easily visualize and suffer the moment years before in another country, [. . .] and then that passionate and doomed affection for Claudia which made loneliness retreat behind the soft indulgence of the senses, the same senses that longed for the kill. [. . .] And it was as if the great feminine longing of my mind were being awakened again to be satisfied. And this I felt despite my own words: ‘But it’s that dark, that empty. And it is without consolation.’”

 The entire time I felt like I was seeing through Louis’ eyes and was keenly aware of

Lestat’s watchful gaze

“But Louis, this is the very spirit of your age. Don’t you see that? Everyone else feels as you feel. Your fall from grace and faith has been the fall of a century.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

lara_bk's review against another edition

2.75

dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

jasminawithab's review against another edition

5.0

emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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read this a few months ago and have not stopped thinking about it since. i regularly go back to reread certain passages and pages. 

claudia my beloved

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Abandonment, Classism

zombiezami's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional tense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Slavery, Death of parent

Minor: Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation

uv_sensibility's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Colonisation