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#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire ChroniclesThe vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a show more mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling.
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“Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice
“Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer. show less
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In her second book of the Chronicle of the Vampire series, Rice takes us back to the beginning of Vampire Lestat's life. Readers first meet him towards the end of her bestseller, Interview with the Vampire. This time Vampire Lestat guides the audience deeper into what it means to be a vampire. He shares what happens to him physically (hair and nails don't grow any longer than at the point of immortality but if either hair or nails are cut, they will grow back to that prescribed length), as well as what happens to a vampire mentally. To be immortal takes a toll. To no longer walk among humans is a sacrifice. To constantly be on the hunt for fresh blood is a chore. Lestat makes interesting choices. He invites his mother to become a show more vampire, but holds best friend Nicholas at bay.
Rice is really clever to include Interview with the Vampire in Vampire Lestat as a pack of lies.
Confessional: Lestat is a whiny brat in the beginning of the novel. I was sick of his crying until he became a vampire. I was also growing weary of the Dark Gift, the Devil's Road, the Children of Darkness, and the amplified amounts of whispering and weeping. It was like reading a horror soap opera full of dramatic sighs and posturing. show less
Rice is really clever to include Interview with the Vampire in Vampire Lestat as a pack of lies.
Confessional: Lestat is a whiny brat in the beginning of the novel. I was sick of his crying until he became a vampire. I was also growing weary of the Dark Gift, the Devil's Road, the Children of Darkness, and the amplified amounts of whispering and weeping. It was like reading a horror soap opera full of dramatic sighs and posturing. show less
The Vampire Lestat is hands down my favorite book in this series, not only because of the great plot, but mainly because it's told from Lestat's perspective and I love that guy. He was a bit of a bastard in Interview with the Vampire, but here we saw his true self, and not Louis' version of him. I really enjoyed reading about his life as a human and later as a fledgling vampire — much more than about his 'rock star' career. Also, that reconciliation scene with Louis near the end was A.MA.ZING.
I bought The Vampire Lestat at a library book sale when I was 12. I did not know who Anne Rice was or what the book was about. I was absolutely not ready to read material this adult, and I loved it. This book has a disproportionate influence on who I am as an adult. It had, unfortunately, had a hand in making me the person I am today.
Mrs. Rice is a complicated character in the world of queer romance. It is old wisdom to never get involved with her, in any way, but by God if she didn't provide some of the most lustrous, captivating, sexy-uncomfortable queer romances in fiction. Her writing style in its beautiful, purple prose glory is still just about my ideal reading experience and I fall into her lovingly lush descriptions of old show more Europe like a lost lover every time.
It's a personal favorite. I would absolutely capitulate to any argument that the book 'isn't good' or that Rice 'is a problem.' For me, however, this book is part of my history, and I have a some decades old volume missing both covers and scored by notes in bad handwriting hidden carefully away. show less
Mrs. Rice is a complicated character in the world of queer romance. It is old wisdom to never get involved with her, in any way, but by God if she didn't provide some of the most lustrous, captivating, sexy-uncomfortable queer romances in fiction. Her writing style in its beautiful, purple prose glory is still just about my ideal reading experience and I fall into her lovingly lush descriptions of old show more Europe like a lost lover every time.
It's a personal favorite. I would absolutely capitulate to any argument that the book 'isn't good' or that Rice 'is a problem.' For me, however, this book is part of my history, and I have a some decades old volume missing both covers and scored by notes in bad handwriting hidden carefully away. show less
*4.5 *
but in honesty, i wasn't sold with interview with the vampire. but this, this, was fun. enough depth to glaze a donut, a million subtextual elements that go nowhere, and an equal amount of details that probably just clutter any theme that might have been present–put that together with a healthy queer veneer and honey, i'm wrapped around your little finger tighter than anne rice's copious copyright claims.
here's a dump of my thoughts below because there's really no fan community anymore and heck, may as well entertain one (1) of you.
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• doesn't anne rice get tired of her own fucking voice sometimes ?? like queen of not understanding pacing we love 10 pages of describing the fire against the walls
• if i have to even see the word
preternatural again i'm cutting someone
• the rockstar side mission was . ..... .. questionable
• the vampire bar in san francisco is on castro street ? CASTRO street ?? ANNE.
• we love 90% of the character development during the last 10 pages
• i think i genuinely miss claudia
• anne really comparing armand to a caravaggio angel every 5 damn seconds forgetting her basic art history and realizing caravaggio only came back from obscurity in the mid 20th century
• you'll never convince me armand wasn't wearing some tricked out dress at that ball... being compared to cinderella i'm just taking the logical conclusion 😤😤
• i want more discussions on religion. die mad.
• gabrielle is trans and you're never ripping that from my sad little hands
• gabrielle, in general, is the coolest fucking one of the lot
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The Vampire Lestat has risen from his dreary grave and awakened into a world of rock music and motorcycles. He has risen with a new passion - a desire to reveal all the secrets of the vampires that he's guarded his entire existence. Always a troublemaker, Lestat want to start a war with all the stuffy vamps and ghouls who take themselves too seriously. When he was a younger vampire, the old ones took away everything he loved. Now he wants to see what happens when he breaks every rule.
Without delay, he joins a rock band and renames it after himself. He imitates his child Louis and writes an epic novel of his life. Within the pages of his memoir he breaks every solemn oath he ever took to preserve the secrets of the vampires. He plans to show more unveil it all before the world, damn the consequences. The majority of the book is taken up in the telling of his life's adventures. He describes his pursuit of knowledge which carried him from the catacombs of Paris to an island off the coast of Greece where the original vampires reside in state. Long ago they stopped moving and a series of immortals have guarded them.
The novel concludes with a cliff hanger, following Lestat's narrow escape after his band's debut performance. A great host of vampires were mobilized to destroy him, but they all mysteriously burned alive. As our daring hero beds down for the day, he realizes there is someone else in his coffin - the Mother of Vampires herself, having awoken from her centuries of slumber.
Ahhhhh, vintage Anne Rice. It's books like these that remind me why I loved her in my youth. I read these books in middle school, originally, when I was a grumpy teenager. I've continued to read Ms. Rice into adulthood, but her latest books are truly awful. I began to wonder if maybe all her books were bad and I had just romanticized them in my memory. I'm happy to report that this classic tale of historical fantasy does not disappoint. It's aged quite well. show less
Without delay, he joins a rock band and renames it after himself. He imitates his child Louis and writes an epic novel of his life. Within the pages of his memoir he breaks every solemn oath he ever took to preserve the secrets of the vampires. He plans to show more unveil it all before the world, damn the consequences. The majority of the book is taken up in the telling of his life's adventures. He describes his pursuit of knowledge which carried him from the catacombs of Paris to an island off the coast of Greece where the original vampires reside in state. Long ago they stopped moving and a series of immortals have guarded them.
The novel concludes with a cliff hanger, following Lestat's narrow escape after his band's debut performance. A great host of vampires were mobilized to destroy him, but they all mysteriously burned alive. As our daring hero beds down for the day, he realizes there is someone else in his coffin - the Mother of Vampires herself, having awoken from her centuries of slumber.
Ahhhhh, vintage Anne Rice. It's books like these that remind me why I loved her in my youth. I read these books in middle school, originally, when I was a grumpy teenager. I've continued to read Ms. Rice into adulthood, but her latest books are truly awful. I began to wonder if maybe all her books were bad and I had just romanticized them in my memory. I'm happy to report that this classic tale of historical fantasy does not disappoint. It's aged quite well. show less
So I've been on a Vampire binge lately. Like, real Vampire books. Gothic, heady, and terrifying.
I could never really get into the Post-Twilight versions of Vampires because to me, they just seem like humans who drink blood and have special powers. I've always enjoyed the classics of Vampires where they're terrifying predators who hunt people and kill them because they need to. Where they're clearly evil with little to no redeeming qualities to them. Ruthaven, Carmilla, Dracula, Varney. There's something about the Victorian blood drinkers that sticks with me.
Of course, I picked up the preceding book in the Vampire Chronicles series, and I enjoyed it very much. I went into it expecting the same here with getting into Lestat's backstory, show more and I have to say I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. While I thought Louis from the previous book was kind of a downer, Lestat was, by comparison, bombastic and energetic and full of zeal and life. Tragedy, yeah, but there's a reason he's known as "The Brat Prince" later on, and this certainly shows right now.
I know that later entries get a little more pulpy and science-fiction rather than gothic, but for now, this is still very much a Gothic Tragedy, and is one of the reasons why I enjoy Vampires to the point of wanting to write about them and understand them.
Positives
There's a lot of positives, and personally, I rather like this book a lot more than I did "Interview With the Vampire"
For starters, the one thing I can say that Anne Rice improved upon is Chapters. CHAPTERS! In the first book, it was a slog because it was just blocks and blocks of text that ran on for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I liked it, but I ended up reading number of pages rather than chapters, and I felt like I was leaving the story partway through each night I ended. It was exhausting. With chapters at least I could read 4-6 chapters a night and feel accomplished. Plus the chapter lengths varied in length from as low as four to as high as sixteen which was nice.
Another positive I have is that it continues to Anne Rice's writing style of being delightfully gothic. I'm a sucker for Gothic Horror, and there were a few times in this that I did get emotional or even outright terrified.
I'm not kidding about that either. One of the more emotional scenes (view spoiler)
That's summarizing it, but needless to say, it was extremely emotional because it was quite the buildup.
The more terrifying scenes come later in the Novel, since this was mostly a gothic tragedy than a gothic horror. (view spoiler)
Overall, this is the second book in the Vampire Chronicles, and I'm actually looking forward to getting through "Queen of the Damned" next. It's well-written, and aside from the pacing issues I mentioned above, it's interesting, even if Lestat can be kind of a Mary Sue at times.
Negatives
While I enjoyed the book and rated it highly, there are still some issues I have with the novel. It's better paced, sure, but it's still a very long book. The edition I had was almost 500 pages long, and I feel that some sections could have been either cut down or removed entirely.
What parts could be removed were mainly from Lestat's backstory while he was a child. It's clear that his relationship with his Mother and Nickolas is important, but we don't really need to expound upon it as much as they did, and the sections with his Brothers and Father could have been removed as well. In "Interview", Lestat's father was mainly a mystery that never got told, and in "The Vampire Lestat" we get a clearer issue of what his relationship with his Father is like, but... the man doesn't appear prominently at all. He and Lestat's brothers could be removed from the story, and nothing would change aside from Lestat's motivation near the end that took him to New Orleans.
But other sections as well sort of meander along, it feels. Anne Rice loves her vivid descriptions, that much is certain, and while I do love Hemingway for his brevity, I feel he can be TOO on the nose, and I rather like it when writers get lost in painting the world. But there's only so many times I can read about how Lestat feels love towards other Vampires, himself, or things and think he really comes off as extremely histrionic.
Speaking of love, another negative I have is how he feels towards his Mother. He loves his Mother and it REALLY becomes apparent later in the novel. I won't spoil what happens here, but I will say that they become incredibly close to an incestuous degree, and it's extremely off-putting. I understand that Rice explains Vampire love is different from Human love, but we are still an audience of humans, and it's... eh... It explains Claudia from "Interview" let me just say that.
Two Lestats
I mentioned this only briefly, but I should expand on it a bit more here. I feel like this Lestat is wholly different from the Lestat of "Interview With The Vampire" despite Anne Rice saying they're the same, and it's hard to reconcile both versions of Lestat.
In "Interview" Lestat was the perfect foil for Louis. Louis loved life and was merely scared of dying like his brother, while Lestat took advantage of him and his wealth. Louis was wracked with guilt for having to feed off of humans to survive, while Lestat reveled in the death he caused and considered it a great game to hunt humans. Louis tried to drink animal blood to sustain himself, Lestat mocked him, and then, in a moment of weakness, killed and drank a little girl's blood. Lestat saved the girl by giving her the dark gift and making her a pretty doll for Louis, thus making a toxic coven merely to keep Louis with him. As I stated in my review of "Interview, Lestat was powerful, mysterious, and beautiful, and his ego led to his downfall, where in the end he was nothing more than a wraith haunting the modern day and feeding off of animals, too scared to leave his home.
But this Lestat is... well, he's not kinder, but he's also not really evil or unreasonable. This Lestat is inquisitive and a rebel merely because he does not like to be constrained, and he reframes all of his killings as simply killing evil people who deserve to die. He's killed innocent people, yes, but unlike Louis, who would wax soliloquy upon the nature of sin, Lestat would feel bad about it for a time. He even reframes his exploits in "Interview" by claiming the people he killed were evil rapists and murderers, with their crimes unknown to Louis.
Which didn't really excuse the sadism, but you know.
Aside from that, he also claims that everything from Louis in that book was a fabrication or a distortion merely because Louis was mad at him at the time, even though at the end of "The Vampire Lestat" Louis comes seeking Lestat and seemingly is happy to see him.
Personally, I prefer the former Lestat, but I see why Anne Rice would make him more bombastic and sympathetic if she were going to write more books about him. I thought his ending was poetic in the first book, and a nice commentary on how power, sin, and pride can corrupt, and why Louis stood the test of time by simply existing in the moment and being a simple man.
Yet, I also admit I did like the latter version of him. Would it have been harder for Anne Rice to simply make a new character? Don't know, but it is what it is, and I do look forward to reading Queen of the Damned next. show less
I could never really get into the Post-Twilight versions of Vampires because to me, they just seem like humans who drink blood and have special powers. I've always enjoyed the classics of Vampires where they're terrifying predators who hunt people and kill them because they need to. Where they're clearly evil with little to no redeeming qualities to them. Ruthaven, Carmilla, Dracula, Varney. There's something about the Victorian blood drinkers that sticks with me.
Of course, I picked up the preceding book in the Vampire Chronicles series, and I enjoyed it very much. I went into it expecting the same here with getting into Lestat's backstory, show more and I have to say I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. While I thought Louis from the previous book was kind of a downer, Lestat was, by comparison, bombastic and energetic and full of zeal and life. Tragedy, yeah, but there's a reason he's known as "The Brat Prince" later on, and this certainly shows right now.
I know that later entries get a little more pulpy and science-fiction rather than gothic, but for now, this is still very much a Gothic Tragedy, and is one of the reasons why I enjoy Vampires to the point of wanting to write about them and understand them.
Positives
There's a lot of positives, and personally, I rather like this book a lot more than I did "Interview With the Vampire"
For starters, the one thing I can say that Anne Rice improved upon is Chapters. CHAPTERS! In the first book, it was a slog because it was just blocks and blocks of text that ran on for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I liked it, but I ended up reading number of pages rather than chapters, and I felt like I was leaving the story partway through each night I ended. It was exhausting. With chapters at least I could read 4-6 chapters a night and feel accomplished. Plus the chapter lengths varied in length from as low as four to as high as sixteen which was nice.
Another positive I have is that it continues to Anne Rice's writing style of being delightfully gothic. I'm a sucker for Gothic Horror, and there were a few times in this that I did get emotional or even outright terrified.
I'm not kidding about that either. One of the more emotional scenes (view spoiler)
That's summarizing it, but needless to say, it was extremely emotional because it was quite the buildup.
The more terrifying scenes come later in the Novel, since this was mostly a gothic tragedy than a gothic horror. (view spoiler)
Overall, this is the second book in the Vampire Chronicles, and I'm actually looking forward to getting through "Queen of the Damned" next. It's well-written, and aside from the pacing issues I mentioned above, it's interesting, even if Lestat can be kind of a Mary Sue at times.
Negatives
While I enjoyed the book and rated it highly, there are still some issues I have with the novel. It's better paced, sure, but it's still a very long book. The edition I had was almost 500 pages long, and I feel that some sections could have been either cut down or removed entirely.
What parts could be removed were mainly from Lestat's backstory while he was a child. It's clear that his relationship with his Mother and Nickolas is important, but we don't really need to expound upon it as much as they did, and the sections with his Brothers and Father could have been removed as well. In "Interview", Lestat's father was mainly a mystery that never got told, and in "The Vampire Lestat" we get a clearer issue of what his relationship with his Father is like, but... the man doesn't appear prominently at all. He and Lestat's brothers could be removed from the story, and nothing would change aside from Lestat's motivation near the end that took him to New Orleans.
But other sections as well sort of meander along, it feels. Anne Rice loves her vivid descriptions, that much is certain, and while I do love Hemingway for his brevity, I feel he can be TOO on the nose, and I rather like it when writers get lost in painting the world. But there's only so many times I can read about how Lestat feels love towards other Vampires, himself, or things and think he really comes off as extremely histrionic.
Speaking of love, another negative I have is how he feels towards his Mother. He loves his Mother and it REALLY becomes apparent later in the novel. I won't spoil what happens here, but I will say that they become incredibly close to an incestuous degree, and it's extremely off-putting. I understand that Rice explains Vampire love is different from Human love, but we are still an audience of humans, and it's... eh... It explains Claudia from "Interview" let me just say that.
Two Lestats
I mentioned this only briefly, but I should expand on it a bit more here. I feel like this Lestat is wholly different from the Lestat of "Interview With The Vampire" despite Anne Rice saying they're the same, and it's hard to reconcile both versions of Lestat.
In "Interview" Lestat was the perfect foil for Louis. Louis loved life and was merely scared of dying like his brother, while Lestat took advantage of him and his wealth. Louis was wracked with guilt for having to feed off of humans to survive, while Lestat reveled in the death he caused and considered it a great game to hunt humans. Louis tried to drink animal blood to sustain himself, Lestat mocked him, and then, in a moment of weakness, killed and drank a little girl's blood. Lestat saved the girl by giving her the dark gift and making her a pretty doll for Louis, thus making a toxic coven merely to keep Louis with him. As I stated in my review of "Interview, Lestat was powerful, mysterious, and beautiful, and his ego led to his downfall, where in the end he was nothing more than a wraith haunting the modern day and feeding off of animals, too scared to leave his home.
But this Lestat is... well, he's not kinder, but he's also not really evil or unreasonable. This Lestat is inquisitive and a rebel merely because he does not like to be constrained, and he reframes all of his killings as simply killing evil people who deserve to die. He's killed innocent people, yes, but unlike Louis, who would wax soliloquy upon the nature of sin, Lestat would feel bad about it for a time. He even reframes his exploits in "Interview" by claiming the people he killed were evil rapists and murderers, with their crimes unknown to Louis.
Which didn't really excuse the sadism, but you know.
Aside from that, he also claims that everything from Louis in that book was a fabrication or a distortion merely because Louis was mad at him at the time, even though at the end of "The Vampire Lestat" Louis comes seeking Lestat and seemingly is happy to see him.
Personally, I prefer the former Lestat, but I see why Anne Rice would make him more bombastic and sympathetic if she were going to write more books about him. I thought his ending was poetic in the first book, and a nice commentary on how power, sin, and pride can corrupt, and why Louis stood the test of time by simply existing in the moment and being a simple man.
Yet, I also admit I did like the latter version of him. Would it have been harder for Anne Rice to simply make a new character? Don't know, but it is what it is, and I do look forward to reading Queen of the Damned next. show less
Ultimately The Vampire Lestat is a vampire coming of age novel. We learn about Lestat’s creation and early years. His initial horror and dismay. His foibles and stumbles. His discoveries and successes. It’s romantic and harrowing and I love it still after many re-readings.
This is probably the strongest of the series. After reading Interview I was understandably under the impression that Lestat was a right bastard and in many ways he was, but his motivation wasn’t to do harm. In this second book we find out just how clueless and insecure Lestat really is. Reeling from the loss of Nicky and Gabrielle, he is desperate to recreate a little family. He needs to be loved and cherished and when even Armand and Marius abandon him, he turns show more to duplicitousness to bind his new fledglings to him. It’s a mark of his desperation and insecurity and it endears him to us and makes him more human than he realizes. show less
This is probably the strongest of the series. After reading Interview I was understandably under the impression that Lestat was a right bastard and in many ways he was, but his motivation wasn’t to do harm. In this second book we find out just how clueless and insecure Lestat really is. Reeling from the loss of Nicky and Gabrielle, he is desperate to recreate a little family. He needs to be loved and cherished and when even Armand and Marius abandon him, he turns show more to duplicitousness to bind his new fledglings to him. It’s a mark of his desperation and insecurity and it endears him to us and makes him more human than he realizes. show less
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Anne Rice was born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1964 and master's degree in English and creative writing in 1972 from San Francisco State University. She published her first short story in 1965 called October 4, 1948. Her first book, Interview with the show more Vampire, was published in 1976. It was made into a film starring Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, and Tom Cruise in 1994. She wrote various series in the same genre including the rest of the Vampire Chronicles, the Mayfair Witches books, and The Wolf Gift Chronicles. Her novel, Feast of All Saints, became a Showtime mini-series in 2001. Her other works include Cry to Heaven, Servant of the Bones, and Violin. In 1998, Rice returned to the Catholic Church and for some time only wrote for Christ or about Christ. These works include Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, and Called Out of Darkness. Anne Rice died on December 11, 2021 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Lestat de Lioncourt; Gabrielle de Lioncourt; Magnus; Nicolas de Lenfent ('Nicki'); Armand; Marius de Romanus (show all 8); Akasha; Enkil
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- I am the vampire Lestat. I'm immortal. More or less.
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