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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved the first book Interview with the Vampire, but this one I was not a fan of. Hopping between perspectives made it more of a chore to listen to. I'll still read the third book, but this one was a struggle to get through.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
Silly vampire! He does bad things!
dark
reflective
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
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Something I never thought I'd be doing in 2019 is maybe fall in love with Anne Rice's books. It's something I never expected at all, honestly, since I think I assumed that Anne Rice was a terrible writer writing terrible books.
And yet here I am, nearly 1,000 pages deep into her vampire saga and about to begin the third novel. And the thing is, Rice writes in a way I wouldn't expect to be successful, and especially not so wildly popular. Here she picks up with Lestat, a vampire I hated in Interview with the Vampire. And I think that's how you're meant to feel about Lestat. But now I've fallen in love with him, too, just as I fell in love with Louis. In almost every way, Lestat is Louis' opposite. Rather than brood and wait, Lestat rushes in, thoughtlessly, and takes outrageous actions.
What I didn't expect from all of this was a novel that just races by. But the strangest thing is that very little happens over the course of even 100 pages. But at the same time, so much is constantly happening. And I think this is the strength of Rice. She writes atmospheric novels that are deeply relationship focused and much less interested in the pomp and circumstance of vampires. At the same time, she invents a very interesting world, a whole vampire culture, religion, and mythology that msot of the vampires living have never even heard of.
It's quietly brilliant, honestly. These vain, existential immortals seeking answers that may not exist, seeking the origin of their kind but finding only immense holes in history, and a world where only young vampires remain.
But, yes, here is the true story of Lestat. At first I thought this was meant to counter Interview with the Vampire, recontextualizing the series as a sequence of unreliable narrators. But something near the end of the novel sort of throws that out the window, which is interesting, but also makes things a bit less interesting.
Anyrate, I may love these books. They're far from perfect and there are aspects that just feel like they shouldn't work. And maybe they don't. But these novels are much better than I would have ever expected.
Onto Queen of the Damned!
And yet here I am, nearly 1,000 pages deep into her vampire saga and about to begin the third novel. And the thing is, Rice writes in a way I wouldn't expect to be successful, and especially not so wildly popular. Here she picks up with Lestat, a vampire I hated in Interview with the Vampire. And I think that's how you're meant to feel about Lestat. But now I've fallen in love with him, too, just as I fell in love with Louis. In almost every way, Lestat is Louis' opposite. Rather than brood and wait, Lestat rushes in, thoughtlessly, and takes outrageous actions.
What I didn't expect from all of this was a novel that just races by. But the strangest thing is that very little happens over the course of even 100 pages. But at the same time, so much is constantly happening. And I think this is the strength of Rice. She writes atmospheric novels that are deeply relationship focused and much less interested in the pomp and circumstance of vampires. At the same time, she invents a very interesting world, a whole vampire culture, religion, and mythology that msot of the vampires living have never even heard of.
It's quietly brilliant, honestly. These vain, existential immortals seeking answers that may not exist, seeking the origin of their kind but finding only immense holes in history, and a world where only young vampires remain.
But, yes, here is the true story of Lestat. At first I thought this was meant to counter Interview with the Vampire, recontextualizing the series as a sequence of unreliable narrators. But something near the end of the novel sort of throws that out the window, which is interesting, but also makes things a bit less interesting.
Anyrate, I may love these books. They're far from perfect and there are aspects that just feel like they shouldn't work. And maybe they don't. But these novels are much better than I would have ever expected.
Onto Queen of the Damned!
There is no words to describe this book. You need to read it yourself to understand it. It touch your heart and then break it apart. I felt characters deep feelings which I never had. I never experienced such loneliness.
Book is so vivid (especially if you read first book). It makes me feel like vampires are real and indeed it looks like it was written by vampire. I absolutely love this book and it is one of my favourites
Book is so vivid (especially if you read first book). It makes me feel like vampires are real and indeed it looks like it was written by vampire. I absolutely love this book and it is one of my favourites
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
So much happened in this and I have so many thoughts that I don't think it's possible to do them or the bookjustice in a review. As I expected Lestat's POV was a lot more engaging & entertaining than Louis' in IWTV but the ending made me appreciate loustat a lot more. I wish I could've seen into Anne Rice's mind while writing this, she really was on another level. Lestat is literally such a mf but he's so unhateable. At the same time I was surprised by how innocent he came across at times especially at the beginning and how this became twisted through the deterioration of his relationship with Nicki (which was so heartbreaking </3) as well as his transformation into a vampire. Gabrielle was also such an interesting character to me and I really hope the AMC adaptation does her justice in S3 as I kind of feel the same way about her as I did about Claudia in IWTV in the sense that I really want to see her outside of an unreliable male POV. Like IWTV this definitely has its flaws but I definitely recommend if you're interested in Rice's characters & world and after that ending (which I feel could've been extended a little bit as it felt so short and fast-paced compared to the rest of the book although I guess that was the point) I can't wait to start reading TQOTD.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes