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4.5/5

I really enjoyed this book! Despite being a little slow for the first half, I don't understand the negative reviews for this book at all, it was a really good entry into this fantastic series!

hillcm91's review against another edition

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medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No

3.75

deadwish's review against another edition

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3.0

Reseña completa en mi blog:
http://drdeadwish.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/el-principe-lestat-anne-rice.html

El Príncipe Lestat presenta una historia interesante, con una trama que se debate entre la novedad y la repetición (no deja de ser otra matanza de neófitos). Algunos elementos de los cuales no quiero hacer mención para no arruinar la sorpresa, son casi intragables. Siguiendo la línea de escribir para idiotas nuevos lectores, las extensas descripciones de los escenarios donde transcurren los sucesos dejaron de existir. También brillan por su ausencia esos mágicos momentos donde Rice no dudaba en cortar la trama y gastarse 500 páginas contando la vida de un Hijo de los Milenios. Es verdad que la historia se agiliza, pero tenemos un puñado de vampiros nuevos y viejos con personalidades poco diferenciadas y vidas poco profundas. Siento que un editor malvado ha quemado 1500 páginas que me hacen falta.
No puedo evitar no tenerle cariño a Lestat, a los otros vampiros (salvo a Armand, a ti no te quiero) y ya me encariñé con los nuevos miembros de la familia. Si eso se debe a un mérito de la autora o a mi sensiblería, no lo se.
Se nota desde el principio que Rice se tomó el trabajo de releer toda su obra y creo yo también de leer algunas cosas inspiradas por ella. O al menos ha llegado a las mismas conclusiones que otros inspirados por sus libros. No encuentro otra explicación a las similitudes con, por ejemplo, los juegos de rol de Vampiro La Mascarada/El Requiem.
La historia es interesante, pero muy, muy predecible. Es fácil deducir quién es el dueño de la Voz, y ni siquiera hace falta abrir el libro para saber cómo va a terminar todo esto. Pese a todo, este es uno de los finales mejor resueltos de todos los libros de las Crónicas. Se resuelve todo en unas pocas líneas, pero en este caso es casi justificado. No estoy diciendo que sea el mejor final de la historia de la literatura, estoy diciendo que para Rice es todo un logro. Eso vale al menos medio punto.

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3.5

it took me a little while to really get into the different povs for the chapters but i really enjoyed them (apart from marius’!! if he has no haters then i’m DEAD). dare i say “we are soooo back” for the series and the last 2 books won’t be as bad as i was expecting?? who knows!!

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4.25

totally subjective but not enough lestat lmao. still really good tho

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3.0

While reading, I was constantly switching in my head between 3 and 4 stars and I genuinely wish I could give it 3 and a half because of this. I have very mixed feelings about this book. On hand, if I look at the writing style, it has a bit of the beauty that enchanted me in the first book, it felt more solid, more poetic and less so trying to appeal very aggressively to pop culture. I also cherished the last chapter from Louis’ point of view, Louis has since the beginning been my favorite and I missed his melancholic and romantic world view dearly, so this was definitely a treat. Now to the things that bothered me about the novel, I felt like there way too many new characters suddenly introduced and despite some of those having interesting twists such as Gremt or Teshkamen, I felt like it was quite out of nowhere and too many in number. Anne Rice keeps mentioning the names of all these characters constantly as if it is a checklist… they do not all always have to present and mentioned in my opinion. I was frustrated how the whole Quinn and Mona plotline from the last two books was completely dropped here as if it had never even happened. I didn’t even truly like either of them as characters but it felt wrong to just not mention ever again what became of them? I felt like since in the last novel they were planning to go to Maharets compound, one could assume it was hinted that they perished in the burnings, but they did drink from Lestat’s “oh so all mighty” blood, so does it even make sense that the burning would have killed them? I guess perhaps. And lastly, I felt as if the Rhoshamandes plot line was a bit sloppily written, I sympathized a lot with him but I felt like him falling prey to Amel’s manipulation wasn’t gradual enough… either I missed some pages or I don’t know what, but one chapter he isn’t agreeing with Amel at all, the other he’s suddenly in the Amazon murdering Maharet and Khayman? It was a bit out of the blue and as much as I love a good plotwist, this one didn’t feel so good, it was a tad to random for me.

One more positive note from me: I really liked that Rice dared to be a bit more brutal in her descriptions in this book! I felt like this was definitely the most violent/gorey novel in the series thus far. Can’t believe I’m actually about to finish this series soon wow.

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