The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
Ballantine Books, ISBN 0 345 38475 X
Price paid: 0,50$

The following review come from a series of books I have already read, eons ago. Seeing them for cheap, I have decided to give them a second glance and review them.

Strangely enough, I enjoyed this book. It is my third favorite of all Anne Rice's books (the first being Interview and the second, Armand). The reason for this is that it departs from Anne Rice's ongoing vampire saga and gives us a rare glimpse into something utterly different; a vampire becoming human again.

Unlike the turning of a human and the splendors described by Louis in Interview, the humanization of a vampire is a difficult, clumsy thing. Tricked by a con man who can switch bodies, Lestat is stuck in a gross, ineffective human body, understanding it the way today's teenagers understand an abacus.

Lestat, humbled, tries to find a way to get his body back.

Is it worth a dollar?

Yes, read it. Some of it might not make sense at first if the second and third books are skipped but it is worth the slight confusion.