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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Can't wait to see Rockstar lestat on TV 🎤
this book took me 7 years to read, big break in between included. i've been a vampire chronicles girlie since 2014 when i first watched the movie and read the first book quite quickly (especially for someone who didn't read a lot of english books at the time). i had been meaning to read the vampire lestat for so long and finally managed to start in 2018 because my boyfriend then, husband now, gifted it to me. it's a gorgeous hardcover and i really love it.
i think partly why it took me so long to finish, why i took that big break, is that this book means a lot to me personally, besides being, y'know, long as shit. i wasn't in a very good place mentally when i was introduced to iwtv and tvc in general, so the characters, namely lestat, are ones i hold very dearly. lestat gets a lot of backstory here, obviously, and while i expected it to be mostly based on his life as a rockstar, his childhood and whatnot brought even more sympathy for him than the one i already had.
i loved every character, i love nicki so much especially, even though you can almost feel he's doomed from the beginning.
just an overall wonderful book, it means the world to me, lestat is just like me fr and also i was so happy seeing him and louis back together!!
i think partly why it took me so long to finish, why i took that big break, is that this book means a lot to me personally, besides being, y'know, long as shit. i wasn't in a very good place mentally when i was introduced to iwtv and tvc in general, so the characters, namely lestat, are ones i hold very dearly. lestat gets a lot of backstory here, obviously, and while i expected it to be mostly based on his life as a rockstar, his childhood and whatnot brought even more sympathy for him than the one i already had.
i loved every character, i love nicki so much especially, even though you can almost feel he's doomed from the beginning.
just an overall wonderful book, it means the world to me, lestat is just like me fr and also i was so happy seeing him and louis back together!!
I enjoy the way that Anne Rice builds out her worlds, but it really gets tiring to read from Lestat's perspective after a couple hundred pages. His flavor of melodrama isn't that compelling to me. However, it's a good follow-up to Interview With A Vampire.
I have a very hard time reviewing Anne Rice's books. Part of me wants to give it fewer stars because of the questionable takes on pedophilia and incest present in the narrative but I also am a huge fan of the way she writes in general(not so much the topics chosen) and I really love how she writes about vampires.
So first, let me just mention the icks I have with this book.
In IWTV Claudia, a vampire in the body of a five year old, is consistently described as sensual and it's icky. It doesn't matter that her mind has aged to an adult, she's still in a child's body and no child should be described like that. The pedophilia continues into The Vampire Lestat where little boys are described as beautiful. Armand is 17 I believe which in the time period when Lestat meets him he's considered an adult, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth reading about how attracted Louis and Lestat are attracted to this teenager. There's a part where Lestat kills a woman and her infant child who tried to help him and he refers to their deaths as a rape, which is....so fucking gross. Then, of course, there's the relationship with Gabrielle. Gabrielle is Lestat's mother and while she's dying of consumption, he turns her into a vampire. In Anne Rice's universe, familial ties like that sort of disintegrate when you're made vampire, which I kind of understand since they're basically like some kind of alien species now but I could've done without them full on tongue making out while swapping bloody spit in a coffin.
I feel like it's a given reading any Anne Rice book that there is going to be some incredibly out of pocket shit happening. I haven't read Mayfair Witches yet but I know some of the nonsense that goes in that and I just think that if you're gonna read an Anne Rice book you better be ready to be grossed out. I do really love the prose she writes with, and I love the philosophical discussions. This is the kind of book you have to use your whole brain to read if you want to really understand wtf she's talking about.
I'm definitely going to continue the series mainly because I want to know what other wild shit is going to happen and also because like I said, the prose is beautiful and she paints a very vivid world. That's not to say that this book has some questionable content though, so if you intend to read it, just go in with that knowledge.
So first, let me just mention the icks I have with this book.
In IWTV Claudia, a vampire in the body of a five year old, is consistently described as sensual and it's icky. It doesn't matter that her mind has aged to an adult, she's still in a child's body and no child should be described like that. The pedophilia continues into The Vampire Lestat where little boys are described as beautiful. Armand is 17 I believe which in the time period when Lestat meets him he's considered an adult, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth reading about how attracted Louis and Lestat are attracted to this teenager. There's a part where Lestat kills a woman and her infant child who tried to help him and he refers to their deaths as a rape, which is....so fucking gross. Then, of course, there's the relationship with Gabrielle. Gabrielle is Lestat's mother and while she's dying of consumption, he turns her into a vampire. In Anne Rice's universe, familial ties like that sort of disintegrate when you're made vampire, which I kind of understand since they're basically like some kind of alien species now but I could've done without them full on tongue making out while swapping bloody spit in a coffin.
I feel like it's a given reading any Anne Rice book that there is going to be some incredibly out of pocket shit happening. I haven't read Mayfair Witches yet but I know some of the nonsense that goes in that and I just think that if you're gonna read an Anne Rice book you better be ready to be grossed out. I do really love the prose she writes with, and I love the philosophical discussions. This is the kind of book you have to use your whole brain to read if you want to really understand wtf she's talking about.
I'm definitely going to continue the series mainly because I want to know what other wild shit is going to happen and also because like I said, the prose is beautiful and she paints a very vivid world. That's not to say that this book has some questionable content though, so if you intend to read it, just go in with that knowledge.
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Utterly engrossing. Sometimes rambling, sometimes lost on me. But I was gripped throughout. The history of how it all began entwined with myth and lore and ritual just had me in awe. And I fancy Marius. Whatever.