Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles | 
so-soReason for reading: I‘ve been an Anne Rice fan since I was 17 (that‘s appx 500 years for anyone counting; just kidding…I‘m not a gorgeous or angsty immortal vampire being—or am I?).
The good: Lestat is the same old Brat Prince he ever was, so if you‘re into that…
The bad: 300 pgs too long, way too much talking.
Conclusion: I didn‘t hate this book but I did a mini groan every time I picked it up & I was so happy to be done with it.
Day 21 #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Vampire. The most iconic vampire of my generation. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall
so-soThis odd chronicle didn‘t work for me until fully 50% through. And even then, it fell into the trap of too many characters and voices and too little plot convergence. My reading life changed forever after Interview, but this is a weak entry in the series.
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My current #teamMonsterMash read fits the bill for the #black #scarathlondailyprompts ! (So far pretty underwhelming …)
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I love the Vampire Chronicles, so I was excited to read this book. Pretty disappointing.
RIP Anne Rice 💔 😭
She died yesterday. One of my favorite authors! My young adult years! My heart is BROKEN!! She didn't get to see the series on TV. This is SO SO SAD! She worked SO HARD for it!! Blessings and strength to all and her son. 🙏
It cannot be true.
I'm devasted.
R.I.P. Anne 🪦
pickPRINCE LESTAT has such a low Litsy rating that I went in with tons of trepidation and was all the more delighted when I loved the hell out of it. Rice takes a series of deep dives into characters who floated along the periphery of the main cast‘s stories. Many of them never even got names before. Now we know who they are, what they want, and how they react to this current crisis. It‘s exactly my jam. I‘m so glad I read it ahead of schedule.
I planned to leave PRINCE LESTAT on La TBR until I finished my slow-ass Vampire Chronicles reread, but I‘m in the mood for some Anne Rice I‘ve never read before, and hey, I‘ve got an obvious craving-buster on hand. And I mean, if I still remember THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF super well sixteen years after I last read it, it‘s not like I‘ve gotta worry about feeling lost.
I‘m gonna post a book (or series) from my TBR every day until I‘ve shared the lot. No descriptions. No explanations. Just a whole bunch of books I haven‘t read yet.
This is Day 26.
#LaTBRrevealed
panThe Vampire Chronicles is one of my favorite series. I read the first four books several times. It pains me to say this, but this book was disappointing. It was slow and didn‘t live up to the great storytelling of this series. I only stuck it out because I love the series and was hoping it would get better. ⭐️⭐️
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panI discovered this series in high school and fell in love. Rice stayed an auto buy author for me for years, even after her later books became less enjoyable. I was curious about revisiting Lestat and crew but after only a few pages I really wished I had stayed far away with my fond memories. Poorly written and pretty much nothing happens for most of the book except for too many minor characters reverentially referencing past books and navel gazing.
pickIt's been a good dozen years or so since I plowed through the original Vampire Chronicles, so it was kind of fun to revisit Anne Rice. I'd forgotten that she writes in vignettes with every subsection focusing on a separate entity none of which seem related at first but are pulled together later. Interweaving those individual character stories is what makes it interesting, and I was more than happy to see Lestat again.
pickIt was so refreshing to see a softer side of the Notorious vampire ! I felt so bad for the Voice towards the end.
so-soI've been a fan of the Vampire Chronicles since I was 15 or so. I wasn't very excited for a continuation after Blood Canticle, honestly. It wasn't the greatest ending, but it was an ending. This book felt like another ending, but in a less satisfying package. It just felt like a pale shadow of the stories that came before. The plot was okay. I dislike the way characters were handled or just left out. Some of the new characters seemed pointless
Another #Goodreads #KindleDailyDeal that I couldn't resist.
The great library purge of 2018 is underway! I‘m not sure how it‘ll work besides locals picking up any they want, but I DO want to host a #Litsy #giveaway of a signed 1st ed of Prince Lestat: details in comments. Folks who do these things all the time, hit me with the hashtags I should use/accounts I should tag? The winner will be chosen June 18/book mailed by July 1 (moving makes deadlines easy!) http://www.librarything.com/catalog/kir_culls
All the books on my "to-be-read" list in no particular order. I also have 3 on the go.
Been on my TBR since it came out 😕
#IAmSweetMarch #PrinceInTitle
Let's see how this works: I had nothing for this prompt...but I DO have vampires....
Lestat would still have been in the early-ish of his immortal years during the #regency era. Can you imagine Mrs. Bennett trying to set up one of her daughter's with him? Actually....I could get into that...screw zombies....Pride & Prejudice & Vampires...I'd read it!
How's that for loosely interpreted prompt? 😂😂😂
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I‘ve been so busy with my new job I haven‘t thought to post lately, however I am still doing audiobooks every chance I get. I‘ve revisited some that i have already done, Prince Lestatt, A Man called, Ove, You, a new one that is not listed here Commune by Joshua Gayou, which was recommended by RC Bray on FB, he narrated it. It was amazing, great characters! Billy being my favorite, RC‘s portrayal of him was by far my favorite acting/ reading of his
Reuniting with long lost fictional characters. Decades ago I devoured everything written by Anne Rice until either Memnoch the Devil or Servant of the Bones. Burned out I stopped reading any of her books. With a renewed interest I spontaneously bought Prince Lestat and 2-ish hours later I can not put this book down.
so-soFinished this last night. Felt like it took forever to read. I love Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, but this one just didn't do it for me. It felt like she had all these minor characters, even less than minor characters, so she threw them in with the big dogs and wrote a book. Because the chapters are broken down into different characters it feels chopped up. I had a hard time keeping my attention. (Continued in comments)
Never fails I get about 50 pages from the end of a book and I want to ignore it. Perhaps it's my subconscious not wanting it to end?
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3. 20,000 ft in the sky ✈️ on land I don't know, not high
4. 🍝 The Man Cub loves it, I would rather have something else.
5. Harry Potter series, The Catcher in the Rye, The Vampire Chronicles 📚
@jess.how #friYAYintro
I can get coffee and food at a cafe
Character gets to do and be more
Some emotion is better than none
I'm a history nerd 🤓
Some times I need to know something about the book.
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Prince Lestat, at Willow Books. As I battled the urge of temptation 😸 I really need to get a fine copy of Book 2: 'The Vampire Lestat' and start reading again from the get-go. 🦇
pickThis book was a lovely coming together of not only all the previous vampire characters from the series but also many of the briefly mentioned or unnamed characters from previous books. It brought to life more backstories while also highlighting how The Children of the Night are moving forward in the 21st century.
Lestat is also my pick today for #whattaman
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Hoping I can squeeze in one more chapter before the sun goes down and the movie starts.
Here is my tentative July #TBR stack (plus a few Kindle books, probably). I say tentative because I tend to read based on my mood, so some of them may get pushed aside for other books depending on how I'm feeling this month! My #julymostanticipated is probably the two Lestat books. I've been meaning to get around to them for way too long!
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Okay, I hated the last Anne Rice book I read,Memnoch the Devil. I've read nothing of hers since, but I always loved Lestat so I've decided to give these new ones a try.
#vampchallenge #bookandredbeverage and you all though I was going to use wine. I can't I drank it all... lol
I read all the Vampire Chronicles books in high school and college. I was a bit obsessed. Years later Anne Rice wrote another Lestat book. I couldn't get past the first chapter. #dnf #readjanuary
Because I never know what I want to read next for today's post of #thismonthtbr I'm just going to repost the picture of my #Litsyatoz and other TBR piles (I read Citizen Saturday night)
#readjanuary
Book dilemma. Do I start the new Lestat book or The Hamilton affair? Vampires or Hamilton? I cannot make such choices on my own!!! HELP ME LITSY!!!! 😜
"All you can do, he thought, is to fight to stay alive, to stay conscious, to remain a witness, and hope somehow there is a meaning to it" #lestat #books #booklover #bookaddict #reader #reading #readmore
panIt was not as awesome a continuation of the Vampire Chronicles as I was hoping. Two thirds of the book were mostly devoted to catching up on characters from previous books and introducing new characters instead of developing the plot, which was interesting but relegated to the end. The characters also seemed overdramatic. Or maybe it's just been a while since I visited these characters. Not terrible, but not what I was expecting.
