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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
I liked it! I find the mayfair history really interesting and I love how she chronicled their history via secondhand accounts, although it did get a little repetitive.
I’m really intrigued by rowan and lasher, but I couldn’t give a flying fuck about michael. his backstory was completely unnecessary. he’s joining the marius, david, and (book) louis club with how boring I find them.
I love how she writes about new orleans - it always feels like I’m there even though I’ve never been. you can feel the love for her city in every page she writes.
major critique of this book is her incessant weirdness about irish & mixed race people. rice has a habit of making all her characters have the same viewpoints on race, gender roles, pedophilia etc. regardless of their culture or century, which just makes it seem that these are her viewpoints that she refuses to examine, alter, or personalize for the otherwise brilliant characters she writes. it flattens them, on top of being questionable. similarly, she constantly asserts that rough sex = rape and it’s making me question whether or not some of her characters were truly sexually assaulted in the vampire chronicles, because it’s a little fuzzy and I feel that that wasn’t intentional.
would I reread it? probably not. my opinion towards this book is similar to the IWTV (book): I have a delicate mix of intrigue and indifference towards them both. i definitely enjoyed both more than TOtBT and MtD, but they won’t be the books I’ll return to in the future. the books I’ll be rereading are TVL, QOtD, and TVA. I’m interested in reading the rest of the mayfair witches, and I can’t wait to get back to the vampire chronicles with merrick! I miss my vampires.
also. the greatest sentence in all literature is this: and I don’t fear your ghost even if he sports the cock of an archangel!!! thank you, anne rice.
***there isn’t a specific tag for this but there is explicit pregnancy/birth horror present in the latter half of this book!
I’m really intrigued by rowan and lasher, but I couldn’t give a flying fuck about michael. his backstory was completely unnecessary. he’s joining the marius, david, and (book) louis club with how boring I find them.
I love how she writes about new orleans - it always feels like I’m there even though I’ve never been. you can feel the love for her city in every page she writes.
major critique of this book is her incessant weirdness about irish & mixed race people. rice has a habit of making all her characters have the same viewpoints on race, gender roles, pedophilia etc. regardless of their culture or century, which just makes it seem that these are her viewpoints that she refuses to examine, alter, or personalize for the otherwise brilliant characters she writes. it flattens them, on top of being questionable. similarly, she constantly asserts that rough sex = rape and it’s making me question whether or not some of her characters were truly sexually assaulted in the vampire chronicles, because it’s a little fuzzy and I feel that that wasn’t intentional.
would I reread it? probably not. my opinion towards this book is similar to the IWTV (book): I have a delicate mix of intrigue and indifference towards them both. i definitely enjoyed both more than TOtBT and MtD, but they won’t be the books I’ll return to in the future. the books I’ll be rereading are TVL, QOtD, and TVA. I’m interested in reading the rest of the mayfair witches, and I can’t wait to get back to the vampire chronicles with merrick! I miss my vampires.
also. the greatest sentence in all literature is this: and I don’t fear your ghost even if he sports the cock of an archangel!!! thank you, anne rice.
***there isn’t a specific tag for this but there is explicit pregnancy/birth horror present in the latter half of this book!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation
Se me ocurren tantos motivos para no recomendar este libro. Pero tantos. Entre cosas turbias (pero turbias turbias), descripción y descripción de renovación doméstica que ni los programas del Divinity, dos protagonistas que me gustan durante página y media más o menos, cosas sin sentido que se apilan y el saber, porque esto es una relectura, que luego solo empeora...
En fin. Que yo le doy cuatro estrellas. Y se las doy porque el concepto de las Mayfair me gusta mucho y por Julien. Ay Julien. No penséis que es bueno. De hecho decir en público que me gusta es un acto de masoquismo. Pero es el carisma. Es todo lo que Anne Rice puso en Lestat que le hace tan brillante y llamativo. Francés incluido.
No obstante si estáis aquí preguntándoos si leerlo o no, si finalmente lo cogéis, que no sea porque os llamó la atención mi reseña. En serio. No quiero culpa en los daños mentales que pueda sufrir nadie por cogerlo.
En fin. Que yo le doy cuatro estrellas. Y se las doy porque el concepto de las Mayfair me gusta mucho y por Julien. Ay Julien. No penséis que es bueno. De hecho decir en público que me gusta es un acto de masoquismo. Pero es el carisma. Es todo lo que Anne Rice puso en Lestat que le hace tan brillante y llamativo. Francés incluido.
No obstante si estáis aquí preguntándoos si leerlo o no, si finalmente lo cogéis, que no sea porque os llamó la atención mi reseña. En serio. No quiero culpa en los daños mentales que pueda sufrir nadie por cogerlo.
I couldn’t get past the creepy guy lusting after a 12 year old and then lusting after his daughter
Content Warnings
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia
Minor: Colonisation, Classism
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5/5 it's a good book and a good story but the way it's structured is just so bizarre, we start following two characters and they completely disappear from the narrative for 300+ pages as we get a detailed backstory on the whole family, would've been nice to have that more sprinkled throughout instead
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood
Four stars for the family saga, two for the boring magical doctor woman who is perfect and her boring boyfriend. This has some really good set up, but it aged badly. 1990, if you don't know how stem cells work, please shut up. Potentially also kind of prolifer, but written with enough nuance to still be bearable. I hope the second one is better.
Could have been 400 pages shorter. Maybe more.
Could have been 400 pages shorter. Maybe more.
It was fun jumping back into this novel which I haven't read since my early 20s. I took me some time to get back into the swing of things with Rice's writing style - it's been a number of years since I've last read anything of hers - but it was like a warm blanket.
Curious to see how the series handles the story.
Curious to see how the series handles the story.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Save time. Watch the show.
AMC accomplished what the late twentieth century publishing world could not: a solid edit.
AMC accomplished what the late twentieth century publishing world could not: a solid edit.