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fanruning's review
I do not know how to rate this book. I truly don't. I am conflicted in a way I don't think a book has ever made me feel.
On one side, the book has an entertainting plot (a centuries-old vampire swapping bodies with a mortal man and then getting scammed and struggling to get his body back), interesting characters and absolutely incredibly deep deliberations that could shock the entire Christian religion (the part where it was explained that if God made us on his image, so God must be a being made of cells was absolutely amazing, days later I'm still thinking about it). The first 1/3 of the book was truly pleasing, and I was enjoying it very much. But then, it came...the rest.
On the other side, in fact, some things in this book were so wrong that I don't have any other definition to describe them. When I started reading this series, I had already new it was a trashy saga from decades ago and I had heard that the author was problematic, and some small things in the precedent books made me think she was a weirdo so i expected it was those that made fans believe so. Then I read this book, and the thing I'm going to talk about is not just "problematic", but straight up WRONG. Not only there were very weird unnecessarily detailed scenes (like the protagonist taking a piss for the first times in centuries), but there was also a thing that I can't even believe was real.
To resume it, the author just let her main character r*pe a woman he has just met. At first I thought the author didn't say anything about it, so I thought I may be the one that didn't understand the scene, but some chapters later she goes back to the event, even addressing it has a r*pe, but she brushed it off as it was nothing, like the character accidentally dropped a glass of wine on the woman's tablecloth instead of s*xual ass*ulting her. I can't accept or excuse this. It didn't contribute to the story at all, it was totally unnecessary, and the fact that the author is a woman make me even more disgusted and upset. There's absolutely no excuse for this. It gave me nausea.
In conclusion, after the events of this book, I don't know if I want to continue the series, or if I have the courage to. I just now that if I do, I'll need a few months to recover from this book before reading the next.
On one side, the book has an entertainting plot (a centuries-old vampire swapping bodies with a mortal man and then getting scammed and struggling to get his body back), interesting characters and absolutely incredibly deep deliberations that could shock the entire Christian religion (the part where it was explained that if God made us on his image, so God must be a being made of cells was absolutely amazing, days later I'm still thinking about it). The first 1/3 of the book was truly pleasing, and I was enjoying it very much. But then, it came...the rest.
On the other side, in fact, some things in this book were so wrong that I don't have any other definition to describe them. When I started reading this series, I had already new it was a trashy saga from decades ago and I had heard that the author was problematic, and some small things in the precedent books made me think she was a weirdo so i expected it was those that made fans believe so. Then I read this book, and the thing I'm going to talk about is not just "problematic", but straight up WRONG. Not only there were very weird unnecessarily detailed scenes (like the protagonist taking a piss for the first times in centuries), but there was also a thing that I can't even believe was real.
To resume it, the author just let her main character r*pe a woman he has just met. At first I thought the author didn't say anything about it, so I thought I may be the one that didn't understand the scene, but some chapters later she goes back to the event, even addressing it has a r*pe, but she brushed it off as it was nothing, like the character accidentally dropped a glass of wine on the woman's tablecloth instead of s*xual ass*ulting her. I can't accept or excuse this. It didn't contribute to the story at all, it was totally unnecessary, and the fact that the author is a woman make me even more disgusted and upset. There's absolutely no excuse for this. It gave me nausea.
In conclusion, after the events of this book, I don't know if I want to continue the series, or if I have the courage to. I just now that if I do, I'll need a few months to recover from this book before reading the next.
mimie7ea4's review
1.0
This was the book that made me quit the series. It was that bad, and that's saying something because I loved (still love) the first three books and will cherish them always. But this book. This book is an abomination and almost ruined every pleasant memory I had of that long summer when I first read Anne Rice.
[book:The Queen of the Damned|43758] wrapped things up fairly well, and I felt there was no need to continue Lestat's lavish story arc. But of course it had to continue. And so the result is a convoluted "examination" of humanity and immorality, seen through Lestat's POV. But really, it's just Lestat living out a ridiculous dream of becoming mortal again. That's the whole book, just him running around in a human body and enjoying the "pleasures" of having bodily functions again.
And the point of this story is what again?
I don't know, but it's rather indulgent and pointless in the end. These Vampire Chronicles should have ended on a high note with Queen of the Damned.
[book:The Queen of the Damned|43758] wrapped things up fairly well, and I felt there was no need to continue Lestat's lavish story arc. But of course it had to continue. And so the result is a convoluted "examination" of humanity and immorality, seen through Lestat's POV. But really, it's just Lestat living out a ridiculous dream of becoming mortal again. That's the whole book, just him running around in a human body and enjoying the "pleasures" of having bodily functions again.
And the point of this story is what again?
I don't know, but it's rather indulgent and pointless in the end. These Vampire Chronicles should have ended on a high note with Queen of the Damned.
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