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The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

17 reviews

kanjichris's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Trafficking, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

peggy_racham's review against another edition

5.0

"We are a starburst in the history of our kind."

Oh rockstar Lestat so happy to meet you. 
It just gets better every book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

emlibe's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Stalking

Minor: Racial slurs

nokvi's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Lestat rel sickening LMAOOOOO, so sickening he funny. This man so vain eh, I can't stand his ass. Also Gabrielle saying

Let's head to africa and get them to worship us like gods. Rice ik you probably in hell but still that was nasty

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Incest

Minor: Racism and Slavery

takarakei's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Slightly better than book 1 cause Lestat is just quite the character. The middle is SOOO slow, but the ending is REALLY good. TBH I had to look up a chapter summary on reddit which gave me life and the ability to finish this. Only really stuck with it cause I was reading it with friends so that we can watch the Queen of the Damned movie together :')

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery

churglem's review

adventurous dark funny relaxing slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Slavery, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

deductionist's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Lestat takes warnings and "no's" as just encouragement. Quoting a line from the book:
“Lestat, what did I say last night?” he asked. “You are the damnedest creature!”

That's it. That's the vibe of this entire book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Incest, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny

Adding all the content warnings I could think of for this book was a freaking TRIP. This book is not for the faint of heart. A lot of heavy topics are presented here, but I think they're handled well.

mothstrand's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide

Minor: Racism and Slavery

jackbifrost's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Confinement, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and War

tbd24's review

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

honestly I wasn’t convinced i was gonna continue the vampire chronicles at the end of IWAV, but right from the start this book got me interested. well maybe not RIGHT from the start but once Lestat started talking about his past. I loved his melodrama, the way he turns everything into a philosophical puzzle to be solved. And unpopular opinion lol but I like that Anne Rice made the vampires not care about human conventions like incest and age gaps, it shows how they are fundamentally changed from human kind. Even if these are still meant to be morally questionable actions, the modern vampires all maintain that they are evil creatures so why shouldn’t they commit horrific social crimes??? they

kill people lol

. Ultimately, i can understand why some people wouldn’t enjoy a book that happens mostly in someone’s thoughts and memory but boy is it my cup of tea, i’m so excited to read the next one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Incest and Racism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Violence, and War