The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Ballantine Books, ISBN 0 345 31386 0
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.
A draconian shift from the first book, The Vampire Lestat tells the story of Louis' maker and vampire jerk Lestat, the archetypal vampire antihero. Unlike Louis, Lestat has no problems killing, plotting and justifying his evil actions. He is the villain that does not understand his own villainy.
Searching for answers, eons prior to Louis' quest for the same, Lestat goes on the trail of Marius, rumored to be a terribly old and powerful undead. The story then links with Interview with the Vampire, telling Lestat's side of the story, to finally arrive at the "current" year (the eighties), which chronicles Lestat's return to the world and the start of his rock band, which would be featured more importantly in the following book, The Queen of the Damned.
Is it worth a dollar?
I am going to get a lot of heat for this but I would not recommend either this one or the following book from the Vampire Chronicles. Anne Rice has made the mistake of turning Lestat into a superhero and this book already spells the beginning of the end for this undead. This would become most apparent in the fifth book (which I will not review as I found it aberrant). So, skip it.
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