Can't review all of these, but it takes a genius like Rice to write not only from the perspective of a 17th century Vampire but from the perspective of the Vampire Lestat. He is an incredible creation and someone you should definitely meet if you have not already. ( )

If you love wicked vampire fiction, read these titles. ( )

4 stars! These are a great series! ( )

I want to love all of these stories, but somethimes it seems like they are too verbose and slightly repeatative ( )

These classics of vampire literature made Anne Rice a household name. And with good reason. Rice gave us a new type of vampire, a driven and flawed creature with emotions and motivations not unlike humans. Intelligent and not easily pinned down as meerly evil.

Though "Interview" is often cited as the best of her books, I think "The Vampire Lestat" was better. In that book, Rice not only gives us the origins of vampirism, but also the real Lestat. He's hot-headed, charismatic and not at all the vile, evil creature Louis made him out to be. Lestat decides to become a rock and roll star, and gets what he wants with style and flair. The third novel, "Queen of the Damned," is the weakest in the trilogy because of a non-linear style and jarring jumps from character to character. But, the ending was more than satisfying. Anne Rice deserves her reputation as a great writer for these three books alone, even if her books in recent years have been less than stellar. ( )

The vampire chronicles were some of the first adult horror books that I ever read and from the start, I was captivated. Interview with a vampire hooked me in the way that only Rice can; her writing is alluring, dangerous, seductive, rather like her characters.
My favourite book of the chronicles is the vampire Lestat. Finally, the reader is able to see the story laid out in the previous book from the supposed evil doer’s perpective. We realise that Louis’ conversion played but a small part in the life history of Lestat. We travel back in time to France, to the mortal Lestat and his violin. We follow his life, his fame, his desire for power. The tale of the body theif links us with the Talamasca and also satisfies a reader’s craving for knowledge about the links between body and personality.
Rice is a mistress of fiction, history, magic, myth and storytelling. ( )