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Summary: Play on Lestat
Review: Lestat back from the dead and he wants to be a rock star. Who doesn't? I know I would. Written 10 years after the Interview, this book takes on a fresh angle on Lestat. In the Interview, Lestat was dependant on Louis for wealth, comfort and companionship. Here, Lestat is a different character - confident, proud and wealthy. Anne conveniently, explains away the contradictions as fabrications and lies from Louis.Lestat takes us on a journey through pre-revolution France and on the Devil's Road right through Europe and Egypt.Here we could see some thought going into the plot, introducing Armand, Marius, Gabrielle and Akasha for future sequels. This is the best of the Vampire Chronicles. Not to be missed!
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Summary: Lestat is one of the best
Review: This is one of the greatest books I have read. After the first one I didn't think it could get any better but she surely topped herself with this one. Lestat seemed to be watching over my shoulder while I read it. It ws very exciting and it was one of those books I couldn't put down. I would recommend it to anyone who likes Horror/Fantasy.
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Summary: whats eating you?
Review: I thought this was an extreamly good book, this is definently one of my favorite books. their is alot of detail. I enjoyed reading this book because it made me feel like i was there with him. If you like horror and suspencful books then this is the book for you.
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Summary: The Devils Road
Review: If you've read "Interview with the Vampire", you have already met Lestat de Lioncourt. You know him as evil, ruthless, and completely without thought for human morals. But is this true? Here, Lestat tells his own story, in a chilling and fast-paced novel. The best thing about this book is Lestats uniqe voice. You hear him whisper in you ear as you read. And he is the hero of his own story. He wouldn't let anyone else take his place. The description of France and Paris are beautifull, but Lestats moments of realisaton, when he faces the reality of what he is, those moments are not to be missed. He is charming as a hero-villain, but what is surprising is the innocense, the sweetness that lies beneath it all. Meet the Damnedest Creature - you will never forget him.
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Summary: This is the best out of the Vampire Chronicles.
Review: I have read every book out of the Vampire Chronicles (and the New Vampire Chronicles), and this one is by FAR my favorite. If you're a big Lestat fan, he is absolutely wonderful in this book. Not only that, but there's hints of homosexuality between him and his best friend, Nicki. Rice chronicles Lestat's life from BEFORE he was a vampire, which I found facinating. You also get to see the making of the Theater des Vampires, and the roots of Armand. I recommend it, for anyone who is a gothic or Anne Rice fan.
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Summary: Another Anne Rice Book That Has Conquered above all!
Review: The Vampire Lestat has conquered me and others around the world I have never imagined it could hook me so. I am only 14 years of age and I love vampires and when I read this story I knew I fell in love with the Vampire Lestat and for a while I felt sorry for the poor creature and sometimes bored but I kept reading on so I can hear his voice come out of the words.
This story is set back in the 1780's before the French revolution was about to start. Lestat De Lioncourt was born into a noble family, but he loved the stage and he couldn't stand to be away from it. So after awhile his friend,Nikki, who is a violinst, comes up with the idea to runaway to Paris and join the theatre.
Lestat is the talk of the town and is infamous very where even to a vampire. When the vampire makes him one he leaves the world by fire. Lestat must learn and live without this Vampire.
Althrough lestat's life he makes the vampire world go upside down with his lifestyle. In this tale he searches for answers from an ancient named Marius and then in modern times he awakens to the sounds of music of our time called rock. Lestat joins a band and becomes a rockstar. Now he has betrayed the rules of being a vampire. He is living his life in the open among motals.
This book and the rest of the series are works of art. I can see the pictures in my head as she describes it in words. This book is the best vampire book I have read besides the first book of the Vampire chonicles. I hope people will agree with me when they read this book that this is one book you will fall in love with and believe me I couldn't put it down.Let the Vampire enter your mind and soul though his words and eyes.
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Summary: Somewhat Of A Dissappointment
Review: I had been truly amazed after reading Interview With the Vampire and I had assumed this book would give me the same response, but it did not. The Vampire Lestat seems to lack emotion, at least with Lois (in the first book) I could relate. The charcters are hard for me to relate to because they lack most human qualities and the human qualities they do possess are talked of only minimally. Anne introduces us to the Vampire Lestat I am not sure if she was trying to rectify him to her audience after all she had said of him in the first book or not. Anne introduces us to Lestat in the beginning as a vampire who had just awoke from a long nap. He goes out and starts a heavy metal band (sounds like a soap opera that has been on for one season too long to me). I must say the book did not move me to feel anything. All the emotions that had been presented to us in Interview With the Vampire were absent in this book. The book is probably good for Anne Rice fans, but it you want to read something good I would suggest her first book.
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Summary: The Vampire Chronicles started again
Review: Anne Rice's 'The Vampire Lestat' is, in name, the sequel to her earlier novel 'Interview With The Vampire' published almost a decade before. However it feels more like a retelling of the same tale, as if Anne Rice was dissatisfied with her first vampire novel, and its protagonist Louis and decided to start over again with Lestat as the hero. So it chronicles the life of Lestat, who like Louis before him struggles to understand what it all means. And like the previous book there are lengthy discussions concerning Ehtics, Morality and Philosophy. However Lestat's mentor, Marius, is, fortunately, a little more knowledgeable than anyone was in 'Interview with a Vampire', and many of the reader's questions concerning the nature of Vampires is explained.
I enjoyed this book more than the first; it wasn't quite as dry, and Lestat isn't the whiner Louis was. There is a little bit of discontinuity between the two stories; notably the character of Lestat has completely changed from the first novel (as has Armand), which an epilogue to the story doesn't quite fix.
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Summary: Move over, Dracula!
Review: This is a book that is beyond any words of praise. Much, much better than "Interview with the vampire". With its setting in the 1984, Lestat spins an enrapturing tale of his mortal life and escapades as a vampire. While Louis's story leaves you with a depressing emptiness, Lestat enchants and enraptures you by the very first page. When reading "Interview with the vampire" , it makes Lestat out to be paticularly cold and menacing, not a very accurate picture. Although it described Lestat's arrogance, spite, cruelty and vengfulness, it left out important parts of his personality such as his passion, sensuality, charm, and the courage to endure a cursed immortality that was layed before him. This book, on the other hand gives a whole new perspective as the author tells things from Lestat's point of view while at the same time analyzing his true character and motives. After reading it I was completely enamored and hungry for more. This is the true essence of the vampire chronicles and the very reason why I love Anne Rice even today. Even though her creativity is slowly depleting, I still remain a loyal fan for the simple fact that I believe she will one day produce another masterpeice equal to the likes of this one.
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Summary: Mmmm... Blood!
Review: "If you surrender and go with her, you have surrendered to enchantment, as if in a voluptuous dream," said the Boston Globe of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Now, returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created, she demonstrates once again her power to enthrall. With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the Vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of Interview with the Vampire and whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality. And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality. As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep, and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence. As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we see the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors. We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first an apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and--night after night--watched by one...until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood. We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him--in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces--sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent. We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice, and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him. But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule. And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at least revealed. Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat's vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.
Rice is a born story-teller. I sometimes suspect she's a born vampire too, as she keeps my imagination constantly flowing through and sometimes I literally feel fangs growing under my lips. The second book in this wonderful series continues with her great style of presenting her character, and her constant use of spicy phrases and descriptive style. Must read for any vampire lover!
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