Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

204 reviews

purplesaturday's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A really thought provoking exploration of vampires, but the way young children are described and treated was unnecessary and uncomfortable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts

torismazarine's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic

perseusj4ckson's review against another edition

3.0

Strong character development: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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anyway… stream amc’s interview with the vampire NEOW

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Child death

melosamatic's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death

Moderate: Pedophilia, Slavery

kyliesh's review

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Amazingly written and there were times I just wanted to read and read. Louis can definitely be a bit of a drag and sometimes he carries on so long that it gets boring. The characters are great, even the “villains” and I enjoyed his contrast to others often.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

mary_stormageddon's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Everything with Claudia and Louis, as well as Armand and his "boy," left me very unsettled. I think I'll give book 2 a try, but any hint of sexualizing small children, or any children really, and I'm never touching anything written by her again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship

omm's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

louwheezer's review against another edition

2.75

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The descriptive and poetic prose can’t distract me from the horrific preoccupation with children’s necks and mouths. The repeated use of the words “sensual” and “womanly” and “alluring” to describe a child vampire is honestly too much. The melodrama, the lush atmosphere, the homoerotic subtext(and at times just text) are all lovely. But armed with the knowledge that Claudia was inspired by Anne Rice’s recently deceased daughter, I finished this book baffled and uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood

Moderate: Slavery, Toxic relationship

petepilgrim's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood

Moderate: Child death, Emotional abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

macliffe's review against another edition

1.75

adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Started out so good! But as I got further in, I realized that the pace and storytelling had some problems. It could have been so much shorter. There were a lot of mini-plots without much of an overarching plot. I was confused as to why a lot of things happened. Including the pedophelia, what’s with that? Also, SPOILER WARNING: that dang vampire Lestat just wouldn't die! It was so frustrating. On a more positive note, the vibes were the best part of the book. It was so immaculately gothic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Blood, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Murder

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Stalking, Death of parent