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Summary: An Excuse For A Story
Review: This is a good story despite its weakneses. It was given that Lestat's rock music was loud enough to wake the dead. take it with a pinch of salt that it did woke up the dead - which was Akasha and Enkil, the Mother and Father of all vampires from their 6000 years of slumber. Waking up from the slumber, Akasha kills her 6000 year husband (who would have lasted that long in marriage anyway?)and decides to kidnap Lestat. She intends to make Lestat her bridegroom and new plaything. So she took him all over the world revealing to him, her plan to kill 99% of all males while keeping the 1% in bondage, for procreation uses only (she obviously didn't have the foresight to use cloning and do away with males altogether).Lestat couldn't and wouldn't lift his finger against Akasha and it was up to the remaining few vampires Marius, Maharet & Mekare to fight her in a last stand. In the end the incredibly powerful Akasha was killed by shoving her through a glass wall which cut her head off. If Akasha was so powerful that she can burn other vampires with a thought, why did she die without a fight? Why did she choose the useless and whining Lestat as her bridegroom? Why did she need the help of other vampires? So many questions in an otherwise entertaining tale.
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Summary: This is by far the best
Review: Queen of the Damned is my favorite book out of all of the Vampire Chronicle books. I love Daniel and hope to read of him in a new novel. The red-head sisters were the most captivating, even more so than Akasha. Akasha was magnificant and magestic, but not humble like Mahahat or Mekare. Lestat is very boyish and seems to, I dunno, but it is something not on the good side. I warn you now though, do not go and see the movie if you love the book, as I love this novel. The movie is littered with Hollywood *bleep* and lacks the sigficant fact that the vampires are bisexual. The movie is also riddled with the absurd thought of Lestat falling in love with Mahahat's too many greats to count child. Love plays a role in the Chronicles, but not like the way in the movie. Overall, the book rules, ... Although, I think that if I hadn't read the book and just saw the movie I would have loved it!
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Summary: Very good... though Lestat gets a little wimpy
Review: Well, I've got to say that I have loved Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles to date, and this one is no exception. I thought this book was thoroughly enjoyable, although I did notice that towards the late middle when Lestat is with Akasha, he loses a lot of the spunk that made him a great character in the first place. Honestly, I loved Lestat even in "Interview" when he was being malicious ...- if only because he was so interesting. Throughout the middle of this book, he doesn't do a whole lot, unless you count submitting to Akasha's whims. At the end, he certainly redeems himself! When I finished this book I couldn't wait to start "Body Thief".
On a slightly different note, there's a lot of vampire history in this one. I found all the business about the ancient immortals rather dry... but maybe that's just me.
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Summary: Even better then the others!
Review: This has got to be the best Anne Rice novel yet. I loved the way they went into detail about the beginnings of the vampire line. This was the best part of the book for me my two biggest interest are Ancient Egypt and Vampires. I was totally enthralled. A great book I have read it so many times my cover is about to fall off, but I would never throw it out.
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Summary: Three IS enough
Review: After reading "Interview" I was mesmerized about the new type of Vampire that Anne Rice created with her books. So I decided to borrow the next three in the saga. I was bored to death By The Vampire Lestat and if it wasn't for the Twin's story my fate would've been the same for "Queen". Basically after three books, I'm just tired of rice's Whiney, moralistic Vampire. There's not one True Evil Vampire in All three stories and Lestat jumps from being evil to saintly from page to page. His character development is unclear through out these stories and become even more confusing in Queen. Therefore I'm taking a break from Anne Rice and will start looking for a better vampire series.
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Summary: vampire origins retold! (again...)
Review: Some books are very hard to form an educated opinion about. "Queen of the Damned" is one of them. I liked this novel, but I certainly didn't love it. I am hooked on Anne Rice's vampire series, but I hope "Queen of the Damned" is only a speed bump and not an indication of how the rest of these novels are going to go. In my opinion, the writing quality has gone downhill drastically since her masterful "The Vampire Lestat". I found myself plodding along though this novel, trying to muster up some interest in what these characters were doing. It was very difficult at times, but I did finish it and will come back for more. The side plots and flashback stories were much more interesting than the current "crisis" these characters were facing. I very much enjoyed the introductions and background stories of Jesse, Daniel, Maharet, Baby Jenks, and most of the other characters introduced here, and I hope to see more of them in books to come. Anne Rice has an abundance of gifts when it comes to creating a wide-reaching world for her creations, and for that alone she deserves applause. My biggest beef with "Queen of the Damned" is the unfortunate fact that this is now the third "origin" of the vampires we've been subjected to, and Rice doesn't do herself any favors by reinventing her mythos in each of the first three novels in this "world". I am growing a bit weary of Lestat becoming more and more powerful with each successive book as well, and I wasn't too thrilled with the Akasha character having power and strengths far beyond anything remotely attached to the "vampire" mythos. As I mentioned before, I liked the introduction of so many interesting characters, but I feel as if I've read three novels in a row that all seem like a prologue to something else. As I understand it, this was the novel that "sparked" Rice into writing this series more frequently and regularly, so hopefully subsequent books will have more continuity after getting the "origin" books out of the way. "Queen of the Damned" gets three stars from me. This simply doesn't hold a candle to the first two works.
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: This was the first book I have read of Anne Rice's , but I found it was a very intricatly written book of a wholy believable world of vampires. She let you inside their heads and lives and even made you understand them in many ways.
Queen of the Damned begins by going through many of the different lives of vampires and their preparation for Lestat, the vampire rock star, and his concert. There is impending doom felt by all of the characters as they try to figure out why vampires over the world are being killed and they have dreams about two red haired twins. Slowly the story unfolds, but when it ends you wish you were still there in that world with them.
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Summary: And many more to come.
Review: If you wondered what on earth vampires where anyway, than here is the asnswer, all wrapped up in a fine new volume in the Vampire Chronicles. I'll admitt, I dont like this book as much as I like the first two ones (which are nothing short of amazing), but it is still a good read. Some of the mystery goes out the window off course, and it lacks the delightfull darkness of Louis, and the fast-pased "here-I-am"-Lestatian tone from "the Vampire Lestat". But what is really great about this book is the many little stories intertwined with the large one. I particularly enjoyed "the story of Jessie, the great family, and the Talamasca", "the short happy life of Baby Jenks and the Fang Gang", and "Khayman, my Khayman". As a bonus, we finaly find out what happened to Daniel, the interviewer from "Interview with the Vampire".
And we see Armand, finaly emerging into the modern world. A rare treat, and many glorÃous moments. Another thing is the inventive chapter titles, amusing and beautiful. In short, If you love the Vampire Chronicles, you will love this one as well, but dont begin here.
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Summary: Ok, not the best of Anne, but still is great.
Review: The rock star known as the Vampire Lestat, a symbol of evil, playing the devil on the painted stage ("I even figured I'd do some good in that fashion"), prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among his spellbound fans in the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him... The sleep of certain men and women--vampires and mortals scattered around the world-- is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end... Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires--has been awaken from her 6,000 year sleep by Lestat and puts into motion a heinous plan to "save" mankind from itself and to make "all the myths of the world real" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: "I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment on be the cause..." The narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent and sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings. As the stories from the "first brood" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas and to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created --mortals succumbing to the sensation of "being emptied, of being devoured, of being nothing". Vampires are destroyed. Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world. And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.
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Summary: This book kicked!
Review: This novel was a great follow up to The Vampire Lestat. Finally a novel that picks up where the reader actually knows what is going on, though it takes so many twists and turns in the plot that it is so entising and difficult to put down. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that wishes to have to stop for a moment because your brain hurts from the comprehension!
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