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Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Kidnapping, Grief, Gaslighting
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
I get IT, fully and finely.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Pedophilia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
In conclusion, great book but I would recommend the television series more. They really take the essence of the book and make it better in my opinion.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Classism
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Slavery, Death of parent, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Kidnapping
My 5 stars comes from the story, the complex characters, the depth into topics that are very disturbing (mind the content warnings), and an existential look at what being immortal really means.
That very much outweighs the slow going for me.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Incest
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
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The reason this gets 4 stars is the same reason it doesn’t get 4.5 or 5: Anne Rice. As much as I enjoyed her contemplative and descriptive prose and her conception of the vampire, she can’t help but introduce the problematic elements she’s come to be known for. Namely, the weirdly sexual relationship between Claudia and Louis unsettled me. Her description of enslaved people at the beginning of the novel was also notable in its seeming lack of empathy. There is definitely a reason this book revolutionized the genre, and I very much enjoyed it, but Rice’s penchant for the weird sometimes goes a bit too far for me. This is particularly because, unlike what I observed of Butler writing Fledgling, I believe she actually possessed some of these beliefs. Rice has said some concerning things regarding race and sexuality towards children that lead me to believe this aspect of her writing is not to make vampires seem more inhuman like Butler, but a reflection of her. Just something to chew on. The show is doing a wonderful job with the source material however!
Graphic: Child death, Death, Racism, Blood, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Pedophilia, Fire/Fire injury
To be honest I actually like it a lot more than I thought i would? Yes, some key parts are obviously spoiled by having consumed other iterations of this story but this is so uniquely written and so particularly disturbing and unsettling at times that not even Kirsten Dunst's perfect Claudia could hold a candle to it.
The dynamic between Lestat and Louis is something I wasn't expecting but really enjoyed. It's good to know that no matter how I consume this story, Armand is always my favorite character. Claudia was a lot better than I thought she would be, I was worried about how her character would come across in written but I feel like we got a good glimpse of what she is about.
The interview parts were my favorite. Getting to see how different Louis was when everything was happening and how he carries himself in present day is always such a tone shift that I love and never gets old.
I'm excited about continuing to read these books, however long it takes for me to do so.
Graphic: Child death, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief
Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Pedophilia, Death of parent, Colonisation