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3.99 AVERAGE
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emotional
mysterious
reflective
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Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
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Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Vampire Lestat like its predecessor was an odyssey to read, but, like Interview, pushing through the painfully boring sections was worth it. The story is the memoir the antagonist of Interview with the Vampire, Lestat de Lioncourt. We see him from his days as the neglected and abused youngest son of a provincial aristocrat to his rebirth as a gentleman vampire and eventually as a worldwide sensation mega rockstar.
Lestat throughout is an incredibly entertaining narrator. He has these deep emotional bonds with the people around him and a vibrancy that pushes every emotion to the forefront in a way that comes beautifully off the page. Anne Rice shines in mining his complex relationships throughout the novel. The first and most heartbreaking is Lestat's first love, bourgeois violinist Nicolas de Lenfent. Part one of the book, Lelio Rising, centres on their relationship and Rice craft this achingly beautiful intimacy between the two and the inevitable heartbreaking end was shattering to read.
My favourite relationship in this book by far was Lestat's relationship with his mother. Gabrielle de Lioncourt is one of the most fascinating characters I've ever read about. Rice mastefully articulates the prison motherhood and womanhood is for Gabrielle with such nuance and specificity. The exploration of Gabrielle's relationship to womanhood is stunning. Anne Rice pours put pure empathy for this woman who is unambiguously a bad mother. She's a woman for whom nurturing doesn't come naturally so the fact that's she's allowed to be so flawed yet still gets the self actualization and freedom of becoming a vampire is so revolutionary even decades after this book's publication.
Another delightful character in TVL was Armand. The the mysterious soulful murderous vampire gets a significant chunk of the story and through Lestat's eyes comes off more as pathetic and cultish than in Louis gaze. Yet, despite Lestat's destain, I couldn't help but continue to delight in his presence. We get an in depth look into Armand's backstory which is incredibly revealing of his nature. While his cloying vying for Lestat's love and company is occasionally painfully cringe (the second hand embarrassment of Part 4 almost killed me) there was something so affecting in seeing his desperation to be loved and wanted.
Unfortunately after the halfway point TVL really loses steam. While I can see some appreciating the expansion of vampire lore I found the detailed backstories of Those Who Must be Kept dull and largely irrelevant to the story and the details of Marius backstory while occasionally interesting also felt deeply out of place in what is supposed to be Lestat's memoir. These additions really made the back half of the story a punishing drag. However, Rice manages to end the book strongly with Lestat's explosive first concert and the cliffhanger ending definitely motivated me to get to The Queen of the Damned quickly
Lestat throughout is an incredibly entertaining narrator. He has these deep emotional bonds with the people around him and a vibrancy that pushes every emotion to the forefront in a way that comes beautifully off the page. Anne Rice shines in mining his complex relationships throughout the novel. The first and most heartbreaking is Lestat's first love, bourgeois violinist Nicolas de Lenfent. Part one of the book, Lelio Rising, centres on their relationship and Rice craft this achingly beautiful intimacy between the two and the inevitable heartbreaking end was shattering to read.
My favourite relationship in this book by far was Lestat's relationship with his mother. Gabrielle de Lioncourt is one of the most fascinating characters I've ever read about. Rice mastefully articulates the prison motherhood and womanhood is for Gabrielle with such nuance and specificity. The exploration of Gabrielle's relationship to womanhood is stunning. Anne Rice pours put pure empathy for this woman who is unambiguously a bad mother. She's a woman for whom nurturing doesn't come naturally so the fact that's she's allowed to be so flawed yet still gets the self actualization and freedom of becoming a vampire is so revolutionary even decades after this book's publication.
Another delightful character in TVL was Armand. The the mysterious soulful murderous vampire gets a significant chunk of the story and through Lestat's eyes comes off more as pathetic and cultish than in Louis gaze. Yet, despite Lestat's destain, I couldn't help but continue to delight in his presence. We get an in depth look into Armand's backstory which is incredibly revealing of his nature. While his cloying vying for Lestat's love and company is occasionally painfully cringe (the second hand embarrassment of Part 4 almost killed me) there was something so affecting in seeing his desperation to be loved and wanted.
Unfortunately after the halfway point TVL really loses steam. While I can see some appreciating the expansion of vampire lore I found the detailed backstories of Those Who Must be Kept dull and largely irrelevant to the story and the details of Marius backstory while occasionally interesting also felt deeply out of place in what is supposed to be Lestat's memoir. These additions really made the back half of the story a punishing drag. However, Rice manages to end the book strongly with Lestat's explosive first concert and the cliffhanger ending definitely motivated me to get to The Queen of the Damned quickly
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-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
adventurous
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-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:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Anne Rice has made a world and characters that I was very interested to read more about after the first book but good lord her prose bores the hell out of me. I’m not done with Rice but I think I’m done with Vampire Chronicles.
Este libro es una fantasía.
Empieza con Lestat siendo despertado de su letargo por un grupo de rock. Escucha la música y le posee el ritmo ragatanga; quiere formar parte del grupo y llevarlos al estrellato para que los otros vampiros le vean sobre un escenario y cabrearlos. Y a partir de ahí, te cuenta su vida desde niño y por qué ha llegado a esa conclusión.
¡La cantidad de épocas y lugares que se describen en este libro! Y todo con una riqueza que me ha dejado boquiabierta.
Me quito el sombrero.
Aunque mi parte favorita ha sido hacia el final, cuando conecta la parte de la vida de Lestat que no pudimos ver en “Entrevista con el vampiro” con la historia que Louis nos contó
Empieza con Lestat siendo despertado de su letargo por un grupo de rock. Escucha la música y le posee el ritmo ragatanga; quiere formar parte del grupo y llevarlos al estrellato para que los otros vampiros le vean sobre un escenario y cabrearlos. Y a partir de ahí, te cuenta su vida desde niño y por qué ha llegado a esa conclusión.
¡La cantidad de épocas y lugares que se describen en este libro! Y todo con una riqueza que me ha dejado boquiabierta.
Me quito el sombrero.
Aunque mi parte favorita ha sido hacia el final, cuando conecta la parte de la vida de Lestat que no pudimos ver en “Entrevista con el vampiro” con la historia que Louis nos contó