ursulakleguinstan 's review for:

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

3.5

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I find Rice's writing intoxicating in its beauty and Lestat is truly a character of all time, deeply human, annoying and full of himself and so gorgeously complex. As a book it doesn't come together as well as I would like, it's less focused on the pure emotion than Interview and I think it's limited perspective holds it back in a way that the follow up, Queen of the Damned, is able to escape via the use of third person. That said, even when it is doing lore dumps those are expressed with such great feeling that you can't escape how human all her writing is.