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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Great twists and turns and the writing made everything vivid as usual but I guess the modern day setting put me a little off, I don't know.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
General spoilers ahead.
Did you need a story where Lestat tries and fails to immolate himself in the Gobi desert, does a Freaky Friday style body swap with a random criminal, and acquires a German Shepherd named Mojo? Well you got one, and boy is it a trip.
Reading an Anne Rice novel is like visiting a warm but acutely eccentric aunt, someone who’s kind and nice to be around, but also has too much to drink at Thanksgiving, whose stories are interesting but inconsistent and have only the flimsiest relationship with reality.
Lestat is so fun, he’s such a seriously unserious person. He’ll murder one of the Golden Girls in Miami but he draws the line at animal cruelty. He has never listened to anyone else in his life, but he’s very concerned with whether or not this serial killer has the mental faculties to appreciate how pretty he is. He foolishly switches bodies with a dishonest human even though everyone he knows is like “Lestat! Don’t! That’s the worst idea!” but of course he does anyway and then hates every second of it.
The beautiful part about this character is that he’s a clown who always plays it completely straight. He’s genuine when he says he might die from having to use the bathroom as a human man. He can’t walk ten feet without falling in love with someone. Even in life and death situations he’s judging the beauty or ugliness of the furniture around him.
This book continues the odd, sometimes wacky, but always fascinating, mythos of Anne Rice’s characters. Enjoyable as ever.
Did you need a story where Lestat tries and fails to immolate himself in the Gobi desert, does a Freaky Friday style body swap with a random criminal, and acquires a German Shepherd named Mojo? Well you got one, and boy is it a trip.
Reading an Anne Rice novel is like visiting a warm but acutely eccentric aunt, someone who’s kind and nice to be around, but also has too much to drink at Thanksgiving, whose stories are interesting but inconsistent and have only the flimsiest relationship with reality.
Lestat is so fun, he’s such a seriously unserious person. He’ll murder one of the Golden Girls in Miami but he draws the line at animal cruelty. He has never listened to anyone else in his life, but he’s very concerned with whether or not this serial killer has the mental faculties to appreciate how pretty he is. He foolishly switches bodies with a dishonest human even though everyone he knows is like “Lestat! Don’t! That’s the worst idea!” but of course he does anyway and then hates every second of it.
The beautiful part about this character is that he’s a clown who always plays it completely straight. He’s genuine when he says he might die from having to use the bathroom as a human man. He can’t walk ten feet without falling in love with someone. Even in life and death situations he’s judging the beauty or ugliness of the furniture around him.
This book continues the odd, sometimes wacky, but always fascinating, mythos of Anne Rice’s characters. Enjoyable as ever.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
Sorry, Anne Rice, but you just don’t understand Lestat like I do.
1.5 stars only because i love mojo and david, the first character to finally stand up against lestat!
this book could’ve been 200 pages max if we didn’t spend page upon page with lestat’s despair over the consequences of his own actions. if he didn’t assault not one but two people, only to be redeemed after because he regretted but learned nothing from it! the whole gretchen thing was unnecessary and RJ is hardly a character at all, let alone a villain. i don’t know what the purpose of this book was, but it wasn’t worth the read. very curious to see what the Hell amc is gonna do with this story tho !
this book could’ve been 200 pages max if we didn’t spend page upon page with lestat’s despair over the consequences of his own actions. if he didn’t assault not one but two people, only to be redeemed after because he regretted but learned nothing from it! the whole gretchen thing was unnecessary and RJ is hardly a character at all, let alone a villain. i don’t know what the purpose of this book was, but it wasn’t worth the read. very curious to see what the Hell amc is gonna do with this story tho !
Hermoso como todo lo que escribe Rice, pero el ultimo capitulo me parece innecesario. Destruyó un buen final y un buen desenlace para los personajes. Como dice el mismo Lestat: si queres, no leas ese ultimo capitulo. Y así terminaría mucho mejor.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Edit on re-read July 2024, rated down to 3 stars:
Omg, I forgot how many times I had to pause reading/listening to this book and say to myself, "Lestat, you absolute fucking moron." I think the thing that took this rating down for me, 8 years later, was again the constant debate about God, the Devil, and evil beings. So much of this book should have been cut out because it was the same old conversation circles over and over and over again.
Original June 2016:
I had a tough time deciding on the rating for this book. This book was really a 3.5, but I rounded up to 4 because I just really love Lestat.
Things I really loved:
-Lestat being naive and thinking he has everything figured out because he's such a strong, old vampire. How'd that work out for you, buddy?
-Lestat struggling in a mortal body - I probably wasn't supposed to find it hilarious, but Lestat struggling to adjust and dealing with eating, pooping, and a runny nose had me in giggle fits.
-Mojo!
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Things I didn't care for:
-Lestat's constant questioning about God and the Devil. Honestly, do you have to debate this with everyone? You are some 200 years old; you should have come to grips with your place in the universe by now.
-The fact that 30-40% of the book passed by before we got to the body-switching part. And Lestat's abominable behavior with the waitress.
Omg, I forgot how many times I had to pause reading/listening to this book and say to myself, "Lestat, you absolute fucking moron." I think the thing that took this rating down for me, 8 years later, was again the constant debate about God, the Devil, and evil beings. So much of this book should have been cut out because it was the same old conversation circles over and over and over again.
Original June 2016:
I had a tough time deciding on the rating for this book. This book was really a 3.5, but I rounded up to 4 because I just really love Lestat.
Things I really loved:
-Lestat being naive and thinking he has everything figured out because he's such a strong, old vampire. How'd that work out for you, buddy?
-Lestat struggling in a mortal body - I probably wasn't supposed to find it hilarious, but Lestat struggling to adjust and dealing with eating, pooping, and a runny nose had me in giggle fits.
-Mojo!
-
Spoiler
Lestat, Louis, and David all together in the end as vampires - triple threat! I like to think they really enjoyed Rio.Things I didn't care for:
-Lestat's constant questioning about God and the Devil. Honestly, do you have to debate this with everyone? You are some 200 years old; you should have come to grips with your place in the universe by now.
-The fact that 30-40% of the book passed by before we got to the body-switching part. And Lestat's abominable behavior with the waitress.
Great in terms of its existential questions and portraying the brooding loneliness of the human condition, but quite a bit could have been taken out. :) Read a bit long.