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Pandora by Anne Rice
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
i ADORED this book. i wasn't expecting to like it as much as i did (especially because marius is in it, but he isn't much really).
this is a side story to the vampire chronicles but in my opinion, if you wanna read it, do it after 'memnoch the devil' and before 'the vampire armand', because it was published in between them and ties to both books timeline wise.
this book is the story of the vampire pandora. she writes her life story to david talbot in the present (1998) from when she was born until she was turned. she is the daughter of a very important roman senator, so she has the privileges of that, but she runs into tragedies because of how volatile the politics of the roman empire were in the 1st century.
i am so happy to have come out of another book from the vampire chronicles LOVING two more characters: pandora and flavius. pandora is so funny and strong and though she might be more lowkey in present day because of her age, i loved to see that young and free side of her and i hope to see her loving herself once again in future books. also i am IN LOVE with flavius, he is EVERYTHING and i need to keep reading because i need more of him (i only hope anne rice didn't ruin him in the next books lmao).
beware this book has issues (common of anne rice) of racism, orientalism, slavery, etc.
this is a side story to the vampire chronicles but in my opinion, if you wanna read it, do it after 'memnoch the devil' and before 'the vampire armand', because it was published in between them and ties to both books timeline wise.
this book is the story of the vampire pandora. she writes her life story to david talbot in the present (1998) from when she was born until she was turned. she is the daughter of a very important roman senator, so she has the privileges of that, but she runs into tragedies because of how volatile the politics of the roman empire were in the 1st century.
i am so happy to have come out of another book from the vampire chronicles LOVING two more characters: pandora and flavius. pandora is so funny and strong and though she might be more lowkey in present day because of her age, i loved to see that young and free side of her and i hope to see her loving herself once again in future books. also i am IN LOVE with flavius, he is EVERYTHING and i need to keep reading because i need more of him (i only hope anne rice didn't ruin him in the next books lmao).
beware this book has issues (common of anne rice) of racism, orientalism, slavery, etc.
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this book is amazing
beware the narrator is lestat de lioncourt and he might not be for everyone since he is iconic but so fucking annoying in a silly goofy way with dark and fucked up sprinkled about.
this book is about lestat de lioncourt writing a book about the story of his life, and mostly to go agaisnt how louis wrote about him in his book (interview with the vampire). yeah, he is silly like that.
lestat is canonically bisexual, and canonically flamboyant and canonically a chronic fuck-upper. this book is dark, fun, hilarious and many more things. his story starts in the current day and then we learn from his childhood when he was still a human, about the people he loves, about being turned into a vampire, meeting armand, seeking more powerful vampires and all the way to know his side of what it's told in the interview with the vampire book.
by the end of this book, the action is amazing, very movie-like, yes, with even a san francisco car chase. and one of my favorites scenes of the entire chronicles so far... the night before the concert... if you know, you know.
loved this book very much.
beware the narrator is lestat de lioncourt and he might not be for everyone since he is iconic but so fucking annoying in a silly goofy way with dark and fucked up sprinkled about.
this book is about lestat de lioncourt writing a book about the story of his life, and mostly to go agaisnt how louis wrote about him in his book (interview with the vampire). yeah, he is silly like that.
lestat is canonically bisexual, and canonically flamboyant and canonically a chronic fuck-upper. this book is dark, fun, hilarious and many more things. his story starts in the current day and then we learn from his childhood when he was still a human, about the people he loves, about being turned into a vampire, meeting armand, seeking more powerful vampires and all the way to know his side of what it's told in the interview with the vampire book.
by the end of this book, the action is amazing, very movie-like, yes, with even a san francisco car chase. and one of my favorites scenes of the entire chronicles so far... the night before the concert... if you know, you know.
loved this book very much.
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this book has my favorite chapter of any written thing ever... the devil's minion. it's like a drug to me and i have never done any drug.
to quote myself "the queen of the damned book is just like avengers but for vampires". and technically yes. this book is lestat again telling us the story of how he accidently woke up an ancient vampire, akasha, and how she becomes infactuated with him. and every other vampire has to work together to calm akasha's murderous rampage of human men and weaker vampires.
this book taught me how good anne rice was to write dread, fear and that eerie feeling one gets when something REALLY bad is about to happen.
highly recommend it. this finishes the main vampire chronicles trilogy: iwtv, tvl, qotd.
to quote myself "the queen of the damned book is just like avengers but for vampires". and technically yes. this book is lestat again telling us the story of how he accidently woke up an ancient vampire, akasha, and how she becomes infactuated with him. and every other vampire has to work together to calm akasha's murderous rampage of human men and weaker vampires.
this book taught me how good anne rice was to write dread, fear and that eerie feeling one gets when something REALLY bad is about to happen.
highly recommend it. this finishes the main vampire chronicles trilogy: iwtv, tvl, qotd.
The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
this book tells us the story of how lestat de lioncourt fucks up ONCE AGAIN. because he never learns and decides to switch bodies with a man who is not planning to give him his VAMPIRE body back.
lestat constantly wants to fuck old man david talbot and since he likes him too much, he now starts being a very important character in the chronicles... personally i do not like david because he is boring but also now having read merrick, he disgusts me.
this is a fun book, silly and goofy but i want to warn some people that doesn't mean this doesn't have extremely dark parts.
TW: rape, physical abuse
chapter 11 contains a graphic scene of rape.
chapter 33 contains the depiction of physical abuse and forced turning to a vampire.
lestat constantly wants to fuck old man david talbot and since he likes him too much, he now starts being a very important character in the chronicles... personally i do not like david because he is boring but also now having read merrick, he disgusts me.
this is a fun book, silly and goofy but i want to warn some people that doesn't mean this doesn't have extremely dark parts.
TW: rape, physical abuse
chapter 11 contains a graphic scene of rape.
chapter 33 contains the depiction of physical abuse and forced turning to a vampire.
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
"the adhd is strong in this one" i quote myself about lestat in this book.
this book is just anne rice writing bible fanfiction inserting her character lestat... this is about the devil memnoch who infactuates himself with lestat and with wanting to add him to his deeds. he shows lestat his story, heaven and hell and why he was vanished to try to convince him to join him.
by the end it gets so silly and confusing, definitely some drug trip because what was that. at least the action by the end is very good and it ends with a HUGE cliffhanger that will be talked about in the next book 'the vampire armand'.
the weakest book so far and i like to read weird catholic shit, as an ex-catholic now agnostic guy. it was too weird and also dora is SO boring omg.
bosch’s garden of earthly delights is mentioned a lot and yeah, if you looked up the painting, that's exactly how it felt reading some parts of this book.
this book is just anne rice writing bible fanfiction inserting her character lestat... this is about the devil memnoch who infactuates himself with lestat and with wanting to add him to his deeds. he shows lestat his story, heaven and hell and why he was vanished to try to convince him to join him.
by the end it gets so silly and confusing, definitely some drug trip because what was that. at least the action by the end is very good and it ends with a HUGE cliffhanger that will be talked about in the next book 'the vampire armand'.
the weakest book so far and i like to read weird catholic shit, as an ex-catholic now agnostic guy. it was too weird and also dora is SO boring omg.
bosch’s garden of earthly delights is mentioned a lot and yeah, if you looked up the painting, that's exactly how it felt reading some parts of this book.
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
this book ruined my life. i think it gave me ptsd, no joke.
this is armand telling david talbot (yes, it makes no sense, it should've been journalist daniel molloy) the story of his life, since he was a child to the current day.
i read this book without knowing much, just having read the previous 5 books in the chronicles, and with misleading ideas in favour of marius de romanus that other people told me. this book is VERY hard to read because it has extremely distressing topics (i will add some trigger warnings at the end) and i highly recommend if you think any trauma could be triggered by this book... do not read. do not harm yourself.
that being said, i still rate this book 5 stars because of how complex armand is as a character, he became one of my favorite characters. i can HATE what happens in this book but still recognize no matter how fucked up it is, that it is a good book. dark and traumatizing.
TW: rape, pedophilia, physical abuse, grooming, sexual abuse, human trafficking, child trafficking and more.
marius de romanus is the worst character to ever exist and i'm sad rice (who i'm sure is in hell for writting this book) didn't kill him before dying herself. this fictional monster is an abuser in all the forms of the word and he commits graphic abuse to children ON page. so please beware.
this is armand telling david talbot (yes, it makes no sense, it should've been journalist daniel molloy) the story of his life, since he was a child to the current day.
i read this book without knowing much, just having read the previous 5 books in the chronicles, and with misleading ideas in favour of marius de romanus that other people told me. this book is VERY hard to read because it has extremely distressing topics (i will add some trigger warnings at the end) and i highly recommend if you think any trauma could be triggered by this book... do not read. do not harm yourself.
that being said, i still rate this book 5 stars because of how complex armand is as a character, he became one of my favorite characters. i can HATE what happens in this book but still recognize no matter how fucked up it is, that it is a good book. dark and traumatizing.
TW: rape, pedophilia, physical abuse, grooming, sexual abuse, human trafficking, child trafficking and more.
marius de romanus is the worst character to ever exist and i'm sad rice (who i'm sure is in hell for writting this book) didn't kill him before dying herself. this fictional monster is an abuser in all the forms of the word and he commits graphic abuse to children ON page. so please beware.
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
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
4.5
interview with the vampire is the story told by louis de pointe du lac to journalist daniel molloy (the boy, his name wasn't mentioned in the first book) from a short time before he is turned into a vampire by lestat de lioncourt until the present where he is telling him his story.
louis has nothing to lose in the current day when he is telling his story and his objective is to have daniel publish his story (which is a big no no in vampire laws... about telling the world abour vampires).
he tells him about his married-like life with lestat and about their daughter claudia. louis tells his story with anger and resentment for lestat but his harsh façade breaks a lot during the second part of the book.
the first half of the book has some things that icked me a lot, like how creepy louis was towards claudia (but anne rice had a thing for romanticizing pedophilia and it's gonna happen a lot in the next books YIKES). but it also had amazing parts that legitimately scared the shit out of me.
the second part and armand had me kicking my feet and giggling like an idiot. but obviously, this is a dark gothic book, happiness won't last and everything goes downhill for our characters. this last part of the book is amazing.
i didn't read books before but the amc's series made me NEED to read these books and i'm officially obsessed and this catapulted me to be a reader now.
louis has nothing to lose in the current day when he is telling his story and his objective is to have daniel publish his story (which is a big no no in vampire laws... about telling the world abour vampires).
he tells him about his married-like life with lestat and about their daughter claudia. louis tells his story with anger and resentment for lestat but his harsh façade breaks a lot during the second part of the book.
the first half of the book has some things that icked me a lot, like how creepy louis was towards claudia (but anne rice had a thing for romanticizing pedophilia and it's gonna happen a lot in the next books YIKES). but it also had amazing parts that legitimately scared the shit out of me.
the second part and armand had me kicking my feet and giggling like an idiot. but obviously, this is a dark gothic book, happiness won't last and everything goes downhill for our characters. this last part of the book is amazing.
i didn't read books before but the amc's series made me NEED to read these books and i'm officially obsessed and this catapulted me to be a reader now.
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.5
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5