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Overwhelmed and captured, the twins were separated and sent into exile; Maharet to familiar lands in the Red Sea , and Mekare to uncharted waters out towards the west. After two millennia, the Queen and King went mute and catatonic. They were maintained like statues by elders and priests under the impression that if Akasha - the host of Amel, the Sacred Core - died, all vampires would die with her. As the Common Era arrived, most undead forgot.

As years passed, the story of the Divine Parents were maintained by a few elders who barely believed it themselves. Despite this, many of the self-made blood gods - vampires from Akasha's earlier progeny - remained entombed in hollowed-out trees or brick cells where they starved.

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Early in the Common Era, the elder who was entrusted to keep the Parents abandoned Akasha and Enkil in the desert to wait for the sun to rise and consume them. While they remained unharmed, young vampires everywhere were destroyed by fire and even mighty elders were badly burned. Following this, the fledgling Marius - a gifted Roman scholar - went to Egypt and retrieved the Divine Parents, making them his sacred responsibility as the new keeper.

At some point in time, Maharet returned to her village on Mount Carmel in the guise of a distant family member. She returned periodically over the course of many centuries to keep a record of her descendants, all the way down to Jesse Reeves - one of the last of the Great Family. Rice's vampires differ in many ways from their traditional counterparts such as Dracula.

With the exceptions of sunlight and flames, they are unaffected by crucifixes, garlic, a stake through the heart, or holy water. Ancient immortals are almost completely unaffected by the sun. The key trait of Rice's vampires is that they are unusually emotional and sensual, prone to aesthetic thinking and sexual deviancy. This lends well to artistic pursuits such as painting, writing, and singing; all of which are refined by their eidetic memory and heightened beauty. Beyond their refined physical features, Rice's vampires are unique in that their appearance is more statue-like than human.

Their pupils are luminous while in the dark and their nails appear more like glass. Being undead, their skin is likewise pallid as well as unusually smooth. Additionally, upon being sired, the vampire's body is essentially frozen in the state in which it died. Their hair and nails cease to grow; if they are cut, they will quickly grow back.

The undead also possess no bodily fluids other than blood, as they are purged following death. While virtually all other internal bodily functions expire, Rice's vampires still possess a noticeable heartbeat - albeit considerably slower than that of a living heart. This ensures normal blood circulation and also synchronizes with that of their fledglings while turning them. When vampires enter a state of hibernation, their hearts cease to beat and they enter into a desiccated state in which their bodies become skeletal and dry from lack of blood flow.

Blood starvation may also trigger this. Removing their heart from their bodies will also kill them. Despite these differences, Rice's undead do share some similarities with mainstream vampire fiction. They are supernaturally strong and can move faster than the eye can see. Their senses are heightened and they will heal from any injury short of beheading and even reattach limbs.

The act of feeding is highly sexualized in Rice's novels. Vampire both crave and need blood to sustain their unlife. While they can feed on animals, human blood is more nourishing. As they age, they're able to resist the urge more to the point where elders feed only for pleasure. As with most vampire fiction, all of the undead were originally human. To sire a fledgling, a maker must feed upon a victim to the point of death.

The attacker must then offer their own blood for the mortal to drink. After their body expires, they resurrect as a newborn immortal. Fledglings retain all the memories and mannerisms they had in life, however these usually fade or change over time as they acclimate to their new existence.

Many young vampires experience existential crises or crippling depression as they learn to cope with their isolated nature. Within Rice's mythology, vampires possess certain paranormal abilities known as gifts. For younger undead, these gifts usually manifest in subtle ways. For older immortals - particularly ancient ones - these manifest as potent displays of both magic and their own inhuman natures.

As vampires age, they become both stronger as well as more unnatural and statuesque in their appearance. Their demeanor usually becomes more tampered and calculating, even moreso as their more potent gifts manifest; which further distances them from their former human sentiments. The series creates its own terminology: In ancient times vampires formed a religion-like cult , and in the Middle Ages, believing themselves cursed, dwelt in catacombs under cemeteries in covens which emphasized darkness and their own cursed state.

Vampires are largely solitary; Lestat's "family" of 80 years is described as unusually long. There is no organized society beyond covens, religious bodies, and small groups from time to time. While a few vampires seem to find a way to cope with immortality, most capitulate to self-destructive anger or depression and do not survive beyond some decades or a few centuries.

This is described in the series by the saying that vampires "go into the fire or go into history"—the few that survive far longer become legendary or semi-mythical characters. The most ancient vampires, a thousand or more years old, are known colloquially as "Children of the Millennia". In his life as a vampire, Lestat spends decades trying to find any vampire who is more than a few hundred years old, as a way to learn where they all came from and what their vampiric status means, a quest that eventually leads him to the year-old Marius.

Louis de Pointe du Lac tells a young reporter the story of how he had been made a vampire in 18th-century New Orleans by Lestat de Lioncourt.

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In creating and sheltering the child vampire Claudia , Lestat and Louis had unknowingly set tragedy in motion. This book chronicles Lestat's own origins, as he resurfaces in the modern world, his attempt to find meaning by exposing himself to humanity in the guise of a rock star, his search when younger for Marius, culminating with his accidental awakening of Akasha , the ancient Egyptian queen and first vampire, who has been immobile for millennia and is being safeguarded by Marius. Lestat has awakened Akasha, the first of all vampires, who has in her thousands of years of immobility, contrived an idealised way to achieve world peace, by killing almost all males and all other vampires that she can destroy.

She is destroyed by Mekare, who has awakened and returned after years to fulfil a promise to destroy Akasha at the moment she poses the greatest threat. A thief switches bodies with him and runs off, and Lestat enlists David Talbot , leader of the Talamasca and one of his only remaining friends, to help him retrieve it. In Memnoch the Devil , Lestat meets the eponymous demon and is faced with a theological personal crisis. Rice's New Tales of the Vampires —'s Pandora and 's Vittorio the Vampire —do not feature Lestat at all, instead telling the stories of the eponymous peripheral vampires, the Patrician Pandora from Rome in the 1st century B.

The origins of Marius de Romanus are explored in 's Blood and Gold , and Blackwood Farm tells the story of young Tarquin Blackwood as he enlists Lestat and Merrick to help him banish a spirit named Goblin. Prince Lestat rejoins the remaining vampires a decade later as Lestat faces pressure to lead them.

The series primarily follows the antihero Lestat, and by extension the many humans and vampires whose lives he has touched in his own long existence. Rice also explores the origins of vampires far more ancient than the so-called "brat prince". In Rice called her vampires a "metaphor for lost souls", adding that "they were metaphors for us The homoerotic overtones of The Vampire Chronicles are also well-documented.

On the homoerotic content of my novels: I can only say what I have said many times—that no form of love between consenting individuals appears wrong to me. I see bisexuality as power. When I write I have no gender. It is difficult for me to see the characters in terms of gender. I have written individuals who can fall in love with men and women. He is actually far more aware than Louis, something else that Louis doesn't see either. He is a gentle, innocent, thoughtful young man who has suffered so much in his life, and then he is forced into becoming one of the living dead, who now must kill to survive.

It is explained to us why Lestat is the way he is and why he does the things he does which is truly interesting. When you read "Interview with a Vampire" you don't know then that Lestat is misunderstood by Louis, and therefore misunderstood by the reader, whom is seeing the story through Louis' eyes. The glimpses of Lestat we have in Interview with the Vampire, of his relationship with his father, of the way he acts, of his charm that Louis finds both attractive and repulsive, of his love of bright artificial light and his desire to live luxuriously, of his friendship with a young musician, of his doting upon Claudia and showering her with gifts, of his fear to lose Louis, of him emotionally distraught and pleading with Louis to come back to him in Paris which I didn't understand at the time , and finally of the frail, broken, and pitiful shadow of a man he has become by the end of Louis's story, where Louis finds him again in New Orleans.

All of these things are hints at the depth and complexity of the character of Lestat. In The Vampire Lestat, you will finally see the entire picture, and see the masterpiece of a character that Lestat is. The depth and the multi-dimensionality, and the humanity of Lestat. If you liked Louis before, you will still like him. But you will like Lestat even more because you will see how completely misunderstood he is and learn the story of the pain and sorrow he kept hidden in his heart, hidden underneath that charming facade that Louis encountered on his plantation in You will start to understand HOW Lestat could act the way he did towards Louis and Claudia which was the answer to the questions I was seeking in this book so I closed the covers of this book satisfied.

View all 5 comments. Jul 07, Jaidee rated it liked it Shelves: The vampire lestat is like lavender candy floss. Dec 09, Calista rated it it was amazing Shelves: I loved these books in my 20s. Lestat had a great origin story and we explore that here. Anne takes us all the way up to Interview with the Vampire. Lestat is a crazy maker, he likes trouble.

He did have a rough start as an immortal. I loved the tone of Anne's books. They were so brooding and gothic and lush. She uses flowery language and I loved that then. Plus Lestat was Bisexual and he was one of the first characters I read that way. I still have a warm feeling when I think of these books. I haven't re-read them in a while so that might ruin it or it could bring me back to a more simple time in my life. I would like to read this series over someday. The story is now being narrated by the one and only Lestat de Lioncourt. He decides to write a book detailing his long life as a vampire.

Lestat runs away with his lover when he is a young man. The two men run away to France where they drink wine and cry over the beauty of music and art. One night Lestat is kidnapped and turned into a vampire by Magnus. However, Magnus does not stick around to show him the ways of the world. Instead Magnus kills himself with help from Lestat and leaves Lestat a fortune. Lestat, not wanting to upset his loved ones decides to flee and leave them completely. But he uses his new-found wealth to shower them with gifts from afar.

He decides to give her the dark gift so that they can spend all of eternity together. He has what I would call an unnatural attachment to his mother. After Armand meets Lestat he shows him how they were made. These are the two alpha-dogs; the two original vampires. While they do not need to be approached, they do need to be respected and protected. Armand tells Lestat to leave them alone while he runs out on an errand, and Lestat of course does not.

Lestat is a shithead. He thinks he is above everyone he encounters. He views himself as untouchable. He has all the arrogance of new money. Listening to Lestat explain his side of the story about what transpired between Louis and him was quite comical. Lestat is more likely to try to convince you of his innocence while scoffing in his head at how pathetically gullible you are.

Whereas Louis, I do believe. He was a whiny little bitch, but he would have no reason to lie. Listening to how the vampires were made and meeting great characters like Armand and Marius was fantastic. Once again- Simon Vance narrates and absolutely rocks the audio version! View all 6 comments. This was the Audible audio book, unabridged, read by Simon Vance. Who gives a really good performance, I love his vampire voice! Lestat de Lion court rises from his long hibernation in and decides to become a rockstar. He puts out an album and to accompany this he writes his autobiography - revealing the story of his youth as well as the history of the race of vampires, which started years ago in Ancient Egypt.

Anne Rice loves the words: This is the band Savage Garden's favourite book I imagine. Although it has a lot of similar themes, I did not enjoy this book as much as "Interview with a Vampire" for a number of reasons. I think because the plot is much more meandering and fragmented.

It takes in four narrators - Lestat, Armand, Marius and another narrator in Ancient Egypt - and a lot of different geographic and cultural settings which I don't think Anne Rice captures quite as well as she does New Orleans or Paris. Rice has softened and rounded Lestat to make him more likeable compared to the evil, mysterious enigma of Interview.

As a narrator he is a totally believable character this is Rice's main strength though I do not think his obsessions are as interesting as Louis'. He is a bit too confident and self assured. Gabrielle too was similar to Claudia, but again not quite as interesting, her concern that she will never change is represented by the fact she can never cut her hair, a brilliant weird sequence, but not nearly as strong as the stories spun around Claudia - the little girl who never grows old.

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Nicky, the other main character, was an entirely tedious and forgettable cypher. In terms of the story I loved the opening and the end and a lot of the sequences in Paris, but a lot of the stuff in Ancient Egypt - the history of the vampires etc — I found rather boring. I hated the development that now all the vampires can read minds, it just meant the prose drifted off into even more internal stuff than before.

I hated that there was no big deaths - like in Interview. Nicky is the only character who dies and this isn't even 'onscreen' Lestat is informed of it in a letter, this is such a throwaway of good drama I can only assume that it was a lie and done so he can show up again sometime.

Also, Lestat and Gabrielle miss the French Revolution because they are basically on holiday in Egypt, talk about throwing away more great dramatic opportunity. Anyway, if Queen of the Damned is set in the modern day I probably will end up reading it as, from the ending of this one, that seemed an interesting premise. Mar 06, Navessa rated it did not like it Shelves: View all 19 comments. Oct 03, J.

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Grice rated it really liked it Shelves: A very original take on the vampire tale, complete with a sweeping history and rich locales. This was Rice at the top of her game. Jun 09, Olivier Delaye rated it it was amazing. This is my fourth reread in 15 or so years, mind you of The Vampire Lestat and honestly it gets better every time. The prose is absolutely gorgeous, the story is downright engrossing and, history-wise, very well researched. Really, gothic literature doesn't get any better than this. That said, let me add a caveat here: Cuz, yeah, Anne Rice can be quite a bit of a rambler at times, you know.

You've been warned, mortals! Aug 18, Stephen rated it really liked it Shelves: Anne Rice's re-imagining of the "vampire" mythos is excellent and Lestat is on my list of "All Time Favorite" characters. As good as this novel is, the books that follow: Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Dec 30, Melody Sams rated it it was amazing Shelves: Spent most of yesterday and some of today finishing this book.

Very seductive read indeed, I do like how the author writes but from time to time I felt my concentration slipping because she goes on just that little bit more than is needed sometimes. Apr 25, Bart rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Recommended to Bart by: A happy surprise indeed. Perhaps it was a result of low expectations or a prior experience with the movie "Interview with the Vampire" that had me so unprepared to enjoy this novel. The Vampire Lestat is a great read.

It may not have all the literary quality of, say, Cormac McCarthy's equally gruesome accounts, but it is more enjoyable on its first reading. What makes authors great, of course, is how their works hold up on revisits. Knowing the plotting and the conclusion of Anne Rice's novel, I'm A happy surprise indeed. Knowing the plotting and the conclusion of Anne Rice's novel, I'm unlikely to go back to it. But let that dissuade no one from giving this novel a first reading. If there are shortcomings in this book, they derive from Rice's tries at ontological philosophy.

She's brave to consider questions of immortality, of course, but probably not as wise to record her thoughts. In the first third, she tries to tackle immortality - and how it relates, ultimately, to good and evil - but she sort of loses her way. She has her characters who, for being inexperienced at being immortal, haven't the depth for it, making soliloquies about its consequences. Later on, though, when she comes to characters that are millennia old, she knows better and concedes the impenetrability of their plight. And along the way, she also kills off about "immortals".

This also seems to suggest that maybe all those pages of contemplating immortality should have remained behind in the novel's first draft. Otherwise, the book is a joy to read. It's lively and well written. For the most part, Rice moves the book at the right pace and proves, once more, that descriptive writing works great when it enhances the plot.

Too many inexperienced writers seem to mistake descriptive writing for the plot. All such readers would be encouraged to review the last 15 pages of The Vampire Lestat ; after pages, Rice knows when to go full bore into description and make her novel's conclusion memorable. Did I hear that right?! With Bryan Fuller at the helm?

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I just have one little insy bitsy thing to ask of you, Bryan: Oct 16, Erika rated it liked it Shelves: Oh Lestat de Lioncourt, how can you be this rebel, how dare you create such trouble while not giving a single thought to your actions. This is the second book on The Vampire Chronicles, and it is time for Lestat to tell his story. It starts in the year if my mind is not playing tricks on me, wow, i just realized that i was reading this book at the same time with the book P and Lestat has become a rockstar in a band called precisely "The Vampire Lestat".

This idea of a vampire becoming a rockstar seems a bit ridiculous to me at the beginning because during all the time in Interview with the Vampire they were saying Lestat was very handsome and crazy, so to define him later as an actual rockstar seemed a bit of a tool to trick people into thinking he's way cooler than he actually is, it didn't seem like a good idea to me. I couldn't help but imagine him on stage playing guitar and being stalked by millions of fans while, in his nature, he's supposed to be killing to feed, not just being cool and famous and S And he actually sings, he goes onstage and starts singing things like "I'm a vampire, and I'll suck your blood" and other things.

So I didn't like that, but luckily this didn't appear much in the book because for almost the entirety of the book Lestat was writing his story. Basically after the interview with Louis, the boy interviewer published the interview as a book which became a best seller, but everybody thought it was a work of fiction not a real thing.

Lestat came across this book when he met the guys of the band and wanted to join them, he went to them and told them he was Lestat and got very surprised to realize that they already knew his name. They thought it was really awesome that he came to them and told them he was Lestat from the book interview instead of other famous vampires like Dracula for example.

So He read greedily the book and thought he needed to tell his own story, so he typed it all from the beginning when he was turned into one of the damned creatures. His story was really interesting, it covered way too many details of many things, hence the book is long. I really liked especially when other vampires told him a bit of their back story, more specifically Marius. Marius is a very old vampire, he is the vampire who created Armand, and his story is so damn interesting, i wish i could read more about him.

Since he is a very old vampire, his beginnings come from a very old age and you see historical facts here of ancient history, it's really fantastic!! All the chapters about Marius are my favorite parts of the book. In this part he also covered the way vampires started to exist in this world, Marius was not one of the first vampires but he sure knows which 2 were the first ones to appear and they are called The Father and The Mother.

Oh, i so enjoyed this part of the story, the whole book was worth it just for this part! I also like so much all the philosophy it contains about death, life, existence, love, immortality, etc. Anne Rice is a great author, her prose is gorgeous, the descriptions are beautiful, but i can't bring myself to really love her books, sometimes i feel like they drag way too much and i feel the pace so slow and that makes me stop enjoying the story for a greater part of the book.

At the ending view spoiler [ Lestat gets in trouble because he published that book revealing all the secrets of the vampires, names, locations, everything and he's there being a rockstar, exposed to the world without keeping any secrets nor respecting vampire rules. And he's brought great danger over himself and those he loves. Was a 4 star but changed for personal reasons to a one. View all 21 comments. Nov 18, Kristen Burns rated it really liked it Shelves: Time for another super long review that no one will read! The way Lestat viewed all the changes Thankfully Lestat didn't use the word 'plump' to describe everyone like Louis did lol.

People told me I would change my mind about Lestat once I read this book. In a way, they were right. But in a way, they were also wrong. In reference to everything that happened in Interview, what we have here, essentially, is a case of "he said, she said. But, if Louis was telling the truth about how Lestat treated himand I'm inclined to believe he was, since Claudia felt the same waynothing in this book changes the fact that Lestat was abusive toward them.

Here's where I get a little more pedantic than I normally do in reviews, but I think this is an important topic. Lestat's past, his sadness, etc. His love for Louis and his claims that Louis misunderstood everything don't excuse that. Even the fact that Louis did in fact misunderstand some things like that Lestat mostly fed from evildoers and did leave some things out like some of their good times together doesn't excuse that.

Someone can be a good person in some ways, do nice things, etc. I can't even blame Louis for leaving out the good times they had because people do seem to have this belief that if someone does nice things sometimes, if the abuser and victim ever have fun together, if the abuser and victim love each other, then it means the abuser can't possibly be abusive in any way; so no one would have believed Louis had he mentioned the good times.

And, quite frankly, when Lestat was talking about how great his relationship with Louis was, well, people who are emotionally abusive and manipulative often do say things just like that. There are plenty of abusive people in the world who refuse to see or admit even to themselves that their behavior is abuse and who believe their relationship with the victim is caring and supportive even when it's not.

Just as Louis's narrative was biased in some ways, so was Lestat's. For example, he stated that he hid his powers from Louis because Louis couldn't handle it, but that's just proof that he was keeping secrets and making decisions about what was best for Louis instead of letting Louis make those decisions himself. And let's not forget, Lestat left things out of his version too, like how there was SO MUCH he could've told them about their kind without having to get into personal stuff and without breaking his promise to Marius.

And how he taunted Louis and said mean things to him and to Claudia. He himself even said that he's selfishand he isso there was nothing in this book that makes me think that Louis actually lied in his story. Will we ever know the true, unbiased tale of exactly what happened between Louis and Lestat?

Do I believe Louis did have some good times with Lestat, that he had some feelings for Lestat, that he too was afraid of being alone and wanted the companionship they had? Yes, but I already said that in my review of Interview. Do I believe Lestat has good qualities and did some good things with Louis? But do I believe any of that makes his abusive behavior toward Louis and Claudia any less abusive? I will concede, however, that Louis's version of what happened in Paris was all wrong.

Of course, that's Armand's fault for purposely setting everything up to appear that way to Louis.

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It made me feel for awful for Lestat though when I realized that he didn't mean to get Claudia killed, didn't even know they were in Paris, and that he was treated just as badly by Armand. What I find sad about the whole thing though is that it seems like Lestat and Louis could have had a great relationship if only Lestat had treated him a little better. Lestat is someone who seems to like to think and learn too, who appreciates beauty in things, who loves mortals, and still has a lot of love and humanity left in him.

But by the end of this book, they seemed to understand each other better, so maybe things will at least be better between them from now on. Anyway, despite Lestat's negative traits or maybe because of them , I still feel that he's a fantastically complex character and one that I found myself feeling for. So the people who said I'd change my mind were right in that I do see him in a completely different light now.

And there's just something about him. You can't not be drawn to him. I mean, the man wakes up after who know how many years literally underground, and within days he's decked out in leather and riding a motorcycle around New Orleans. Despite being dead, he's so full of life and vitality. He's so emotional and dramatic about everything. He feels so deeply. Apparently he was like that even as a human.

And I did feel bad for him at times; even if he did bring some of his problems onto himself with his impulsiveness, rebelliousness, and selfishness, he didn't deserve all the bad things that happened to him. But also very complex. I feel like he never actually cares for any of the vampires he keeps company with, not even the ones he takes as companions.

I mean, he manipulated Louis to turn someone else into a vampire which destroyed Louis emotionally , and he killed Claudia which further destroyed Louis so that he could have Louis to himself. He also let Louis kill the other vampires in his coven, and he himself killed most of the vampires in his previous coven. And even after everything Lestat did for him, when Lestat needed help, Armand just used him, forced him to rat out Claudia because it served his Armand's own purposes, then pushed him off a building.

I don't think he even understands what love is. He jumps around from vampire to vampire, telling them he loves them within like five minutes of meeting them, but it's never actually love. Maybe that's because the first "love" he ever felt sounded to me more like Stockholm Syndrome after being taken and sold as a kid. I don't mean to imply that Marius treated him badly; in fact, Marius was the first to treat him well, but he did still essentially own Armand.

And as he said himself, because he was taken as a child, he never had a normal human life, which was why he didn't even know how to exist among mortals. I think Nicolas was the one I felt the worst for. Imagine things from his perspective: Then, to top it all off, he was kidnapped and nearly drained by a bunch of vampires in an underground crypt, turned into a vampire himself, and had his handshis most important body parts as a violinistcut off.

Nevermind that they were reattached, it would still be awful. No wonder the poor guy went mad. No wonder he hated Lestat. No wonder he decided to go into the fire. I liked Nicolas, and I shipped Nicostat, so that whole storyline was very tragic. She's not my favorite. Gabrielle's not terrible, but she's cold, and I can't understand her desire to spend her life away from all civilization. He seems like a kind and understanding person, but I need to learn more about him before I can really form an opinion.

You had these two powerful, deadly vampires, and they put on this whole theatrical show to terrify everyone in the church, but the only reason they did thatwhat the terrified people in the church would never have guessedwas because they themselves were terrified.

The humor of their theatrics plus the kind of irony of them being just as terrified made that scene stand out in my mind. To this day, I still love reading about two paranormal creatures drinking blood from each other at the same time. But I also loved that Louis was back and even that Gabrielle was back. This review is long enough already, I'll just say that I liked it, and the complexity of the characters has yet again given me a lot to think about!

Anyone who likes beautiful yet deadly vampires, descriptive writing, and amazingly complex characters. Original Review Metaphors and Moonlight Nov 24, Miquel Reina rated it it was amazing Shelves: Anne Rice is definitely one of my favorite authors but as I said in my review for "Interview with the Vampire", in my opinion, Vampire Chronicles saga is divided into two parts; Interview with the Vampire and the rest of the books, especially by the shift in their point of view: That makes the "Vampire Lestat" and subsequent novels a more passionate and less melancholic mood than Interview with the vampire.

Rice plunges us int Anne Rice is definitely one of my favorite authors but as I said in my review for "Interview with the Vampire", in my opinion, Vampire Chronicles saga is divided into two parts; Interview with the Vampire and the rest of the books, especially by the shift in their point of view: Rice plunges us into the world where light and darkness fight constantly between what's good or evil, what's ethical or unethical.

It's a great novel, much more exciting than "Interview with the Vampire" and is ideal for all those fans of the vampire myth and good writing. Vampires are real and Anne Rice is their historian! Anne Rice has created a very detailed world for the vampires that inhabit her world and the vampires in it.

Lestat was born into a noble family in Auvergne, France, a few decades before the French Revolution was to destroy French nobility. He travels to Paris with his friend, Nicholas, to seek their fortunes but it's there that fate in the shape of the Vampires are real and Anne Rice is their historian!

He travels to Paris with his friend, Nicholas, to seek their fortunes but it's there that fate in the shape of the vampire, Magnus, finds him. He will no longer know mortality. I have always been attracted to vampires whether it be books, movies, or even TV series such as Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.

I remember my daughters loving the Bunnicula series of books which were about a vampire bunny who sucked the juice out of vegetables, with titles like The Celery Stalks at Midnight I plan on continuing The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. I would recommend this series to anyone who is intrigued by vampires. Mar 03, Kim M rated it liked it Shelves: After reading Interview with the Vampire , Lestat decides that he wants to tell his own story in the form of a book, The Vampire Lestat.