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Summary: Lestat, take me to your savage garden. I'll be waiting.
Review: "The Vampire Lestat" was, by far, the most enticing of all of the Chronicles. It will, without a doubt, leave you looking desperately into the sky everynight and praying that Lestat will come and give you the dark gift. In Interview, I was left longing for my Louis. Now I'm am left longing for my brat prince. It makes you wish there were only an endless supply of Chronicle books. They should, without a doubt again, make all of the Chronicles into movies. Tom Cruise was great as Lestat. Brad Pitt was heavenly as Louis. Akasha could be played by Glen Close. That, no Lestat fan could ever miss and forgive his or her self. Come on movie people. MAKE IT HAPPEN. As for Lestat... You are the damndest creature. I'll be waiting!!
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Summary: Awesome! The Best One Out of Chronicles! Long Live Lestat!
Review: This is my personal fav out of all the chronicles. Even though I'm on Memnoch The Devil right now, nothing can beat this book! I love how Anne Rice told the history of all the vampires, it makes you really question if there are vampires. Lestat tells us his story, and it makes me question why he had never told Louis all of this? Louis wanted to know how everything started and all along Lestat knew! I also love Armand from Interview and I loved how they put his story, along with Marius in here. It took me awhile to read, but that's because I can be a slow reader. This book really got me hooked and I wanted to read the rest, which I did. I finished the nest two in 2 months, and am almost done with the last one. I cannot wait till Pandora, and Armand come out on the bookshelfs. If you want to know more about those books, email me, or check Anne Rice's webpages. Anyhow, this book thrilled me and I loved it! The end just makes you want to read the next one, and I did. I completely recommend this book to EVERYONE
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Summary: A great book!!!
Review: This book was well written and very believeable. It seems as if vampires could actually exist and wrote this book. I really liked this book because it had vampires, rock stars, the first vampires, and the affect that mortals had on vampires in it.
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Summary: Long Live (?) Lestat!
Review: This story draws you into a wonderful world of fantasy. I loved hearing Lestat's version of Louis' interview. Lestat is a hero mainly because he knows what he is & accepts his existence for what it is. He doesn't seek to justify his actions, but just presents them as fact. I love having him the hero instead of Louis.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!
Review: FROM THE SOB STORY OF LOUIS TO THE THRILLING AFTERLIFE OF LESTAT, ANNE RICE HAS COME FAR. THIS IS HER BEST BOOK EVER AND I HAVE READ ALMOST ALL OF THEM. IT WAS SO GOOD-I'M SPEECHLESS!! THERE'S NOTHIG MORE TO SAY.
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Summary: The life of the most loved and hated vampire was perfect.
Review: It was the perfect life for the vampire we all hate and love.Giving us he's stand point on his life with louie and other's mortal and not.Showing us that there once was a caring side to lestat.Even though now he has earned the title for my favorite vampire.Doing what he pleases and quite frankly not caring much about what anyone eles says.At times being selfish and mean also he is vunerable at times when in love
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Summary: Prepare to be Spellbound!
Review: The vampire Lestat is back, and as dashing, gay, and carefree as ever!
If you were left wondering at the end of Interview with the Vampire the same things that Louis was, this book and it's conclusion, Queen of the Damned, will answer all your questions, the foremost being: Why and how?
Lestat lays bare the events that lead to him becoming a vampire and the adventures that follow, including how he came to be one of the first vampires in the New World, and just who was that intriguing Armand fellow from Interview?
He forms a rock group (this wasn't as cheesy as it sounds, his reasons were quite masterful) and through his songs, tells the world of the humans of the world of the vampires. His ulterior motive is to get other vampires from around the world together, as they invariably will at such an outright violation of their secrecy, and then--who knows what? Will they accept him? Kill him? Or maybe, and a pretty exciting prospect at that to Lestat, mankind will believe him and the existence of his kind and wage open war on the undead!
The night of the his big, debut rock concert comes, and the feeling he gets is that something big is going to happen. He couldn't have been more right. He also didn't expect THIS to happen. What happened? Read the book, my friend...and it's cliffhanger ending will leave you wanting to read the mind blowing, myth-shattering conclusion, Queen of the Damned.
Anne Rice to me communicates brilliantly in this novel! In many scenes I felt the subtle insanity that indoubtedly plagues vampires worse than sunlight. I don't know if this was intentional on Rice's part or not, but there was definitely a common thread of madness woven into this tale that seemed to jump out at me more than anything else; the madness of one unwillingly plunged into a world of physical immortality. I have never read an author that could get that across as effectively as she did. There was one scene where Lestat was "charmed" by Armand that she executed perfectly. When one is charmed or hypnotized, they do not know what is happening. Once they do, the spell is instantly broken. She did this scene so well that I didn't know what was happening! I felt myself drifting from reality into a sort of dreamy confusion, no longer in touch with what was real...until the spell was broken! I was literally spellbound by this! I still don't know how she did it, but she did. This was just one example of sheer mastery of the written word as communication of ideas.
Humor was well done; not too much as to make the novel a farce, but enough to give you a good laugh once in a while. (For example: the scene in the church when Lestat and Gabriel jumped out wailing in the middle of Mass! I was on the floor!)
This book is great!
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Summary: Screaming For Lestat
Review: Anne Rice's best book EVER!!!!!! Lestat's story is gory, sad and sensual at the same time
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Summary: Her best book in the Vampire Chronicles!
Review: Ann Rice brings Lestat alive in this book. The reader learns about Lestat's history, which they will start to feel for the poor vampire. They get to learn all about his life and the why he acts a certain why. This is a book inwhich the reader will not want to put down
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Summary: "The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice
Review: I have always been a huge fan of the hypnotic world of vampires. Ever since I saw the move version of "Interview With the Vampire", I have been a great admirer of Anne Rice's work. I first read "The Vampire Lestat" two years ago, and I have since read it twice more. I feel it is an extraordinary work of art that should be embraced by all fans of great horror novels.
The story is the exact opposite of that told in "Interview". This is Lestat's side of the story, the untold portion of what Louis described of his maker in the first novel. We learn who Lestat is, and what has made him the way that he is. We witness his unwilling birth as a vampire, and the insanity his "dark gift" brings upon his beloved friend, Nicolas. We see how he came to love Louis, and his child-vampire companion, Claudia. We watch him as he saves his own mother from her deathbed with his immortal kiss.
We feel his love, his joy, his sorrow, his pain. The reader almost begins to believe that Lestat is a real person and not just a fictional character. That is the magic Anne Rice weaves with her poetic words of what torture and extacy it is to be eternally damned.
Anyone who craves a good, dramatic, yet horrific, story should definitely read this book. Let yourselves be taken in by the dark, passionate world Anne Rice has created with her creatures of the night. And may you wake safely in the morning.
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