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The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

19 reviews

tbd24's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

honestly I wasn’t convinced i was gonna continue the vampire chronicles at the end of IWAV, but right from the start this book got me interested. well maybe not RIGHT from the start but once Lestat started talking about his past. I loved his melodrama, the way he turns everything into a philosophical puzzle to be solved. And unpopular opinion lol but I like that Anne Rice made the vampires not care about human conventions like incest and age gaps, it shows how they are fundamentally changed from human kind. Even if these are still meant to be morally questionable actions, the modern vampires all maintain that they are evil creatures so why shouldn’t they commit horrific social crimes??? they

kill people lol

. Ultimately, i can understand why some people wouldn’t enjoy a book that happens mostly in someone’s thoughts and memory but boy is it my cup of tea, i’m so excited to read the next one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Incest and Racism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Slavery, Violence, and War

softwindflower's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Mental illness, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Slavery

claire_3lyse's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Incest, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

hungryheidi2013's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Gore

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

say what you will about anne rice but girlie could write the fuck out of an existential crisis

ariel_is_a_dreamer's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Lestat must have been drinking from people on some heavy drugs.
And yet I love Anne Rice's writing. I basically read this books just for the writing at this point.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Incest, Rape, Slavery, and Blood

super_panda's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Incest and Slavery

carrionkid's review against another edition

5.0

There were so many fantastic and visceral components to this book that even though it was a bit lackluster as a composite whole, I have to give it 5 stars. I think the framing device of it being Lestat's autobiography falls short of its intended goal, as it goes underutilized to truly justify the callback to Interview. But, it's a very intense, emotional book although I'd urge readers to be mindful of the trigger warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Rape, and Slavery

meganpbennett's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It is always hard to rate Anne Rice books, and The Vampire Lestat is no exception. Like Interview, it starts out strong, with action-packed pages and a lovable anti-hero. And, like Interview, it gets to a point where Lestat decides that it's time to tell his story in incredible, intimate detail. And it's not just his story. It's Armand's story. It's Marius' story. It's the story of Those Who Must Be Kept. The middle of the story - from around the time Lestat is turned into a Vampire until he departs for New Orleans - is a bit of a slog. The stories told are amazing and fantastical, but they seem to drag on and on. But if you make it through those pages, the action picks up again, and the book ends in a cliffhanger, setting off the sequel, The Queen of the Damned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Death

Minor: Incest, Slavery, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Grief

laurajones's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest

Minor: Slavery