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The Vampire Lestat
by Anne Rice
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was so gay. Big fat queer vibes. And I'm demanding an invitation to Lestat and Louis' wedding please and thanks😁
This book has everything you could want from a vampire story: queerness, moral ambiguity, rock music, drama, satanic covens, creepy rituals, internal battles between goodness and evil, complicated relationships with God, complicated relationships with eachother- I ATE IT ALL UP !!!
Before starting this book, I had conflicted feelings about Lestat's character. After finishing this book, he's one of my favourite fictional characters of all time!
Something about his insatiable desire to have a connection to mortals and goodness despite his nature being the very opposite of all of that just hit too close to home for me. Something I adore in vampire stories is the exploration of being something 'other,' and being different in some inherent and unchangeable way and suffering because of it. Lestat gives a voice to anyone who feels 'other.' "You sense my loneliness...my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I am evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals." CRYING
And it's this idea of "otherness" and difference that makes this book appeal to me as a queer as well!! It's a feeling I'm sure most LGBTQ+ folks have experienced at some point.
The discussion of good versus evil was also so very facinating!! Especially when it's explored primarily through the eyes of Lestat, who wants so desperately to be good despite his evil nature. This book asked facinating questions. What purpose does a man-made concept of goodness serve to those who are no longer human? What does evilness mean when it's an inherent part of your nature? Can you still be good when youre considered a monster? Funky innit!!
Through the theme of good vs evil, this book manages to stay relevant despite being written in the 80s. We follow the characters of this book across centuries, and so we explore the standards and ideas of goodness through these times, because good and evil are ever-changing concepts! "It's a totally new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil...I am the Vampire for these times."
UGH ITS SO FUN!!
Like every good sequel, this book successfully expands the world this series is set in, and it does so magnificently!! Vampires are my favourite creatures ever, so I absolutely adore seeing them portrayed in creative ways. Rice takes the legend of the Vampire in a totally new direction, one that I'm so excited to see further explored!
I didn't expect to become obsessed with this world and these characters but oh well🙂↕️
This book has everything you could want from a vampire story: queerness, moral ambiguity, rock music, drama, satanic covens, creepy rituals, internal battles between goodness and evil, complicated relationships with God, complicated relationships with eachother- I ATE IT ALL UP !!!
Before starting this book, I had conflicted feelings about Lestat's character. After finishing this book, he's one of my favourite fictional characters of all time!
Something about his insatiable desire to have a connection to mortals and goodness despite his nature being the very opposite of all of that just hit too close to home for me. Something I adore in vampire stories is the exploration of being something 'other,' and being different in some inherent and unchangeable way and suffering because of it. Lestat gives a voice to anyone who feels 'other.' "You sense my loneliness...my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I am evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals." CRYING
And it's this idea of "otherness" and difference that makes this book appeal to me as a queer as well!! It's a feeling I'm sure most LGBTQ+ folks have experienced at some point.
The discussion of good versus evil was also so very facinating!! Especially when it's explored primarily through the eyes of Lestat, who wants so desperately to be good despite his evil nature. This book asked facinating questions. What purpose does a man-made concept of goodness serve to those who are no longer human? What does evilness mean when it's an inherent part of your nature? Can you still be good when youre considered a monster? Funky innit!!
Through the theme of good vs evil, this book manages to stay relevant despite being written in the 80s. We follow the characters of this book across centuries, and so we explore the standards and ideas of goodness through these times, because good and evil are ever-changing concepts! "It's a totally new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil...I am the Vampire for these times."
UGH ITS SO FUN!!
Like every good sequel, this book successfully expands the world this series is set in, and it does so magnificently!! Vampires are my favourite creatures ever, so I absolutely adore seeing them portrayed in creative ways. Rice takes the legend of the Vampire in a totally new direction, one that I'm so excited to see further explored!
I didn't expect to become obsessed with this world and these characters but oh well🙂↕️
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Incest, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment