Vampire Lestat

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Summary: For those who would long to be immortal.
Review: This book covers the life and loves of the vampire Lestat. Rice has a gift for describing real love between mother and son, man and woman, and man and man. She brilliantly weaves the issue of love with that of darkness and beauty and good vs evil. These are the things that make us alive, and the book brings this energy, and meaning to life.

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Summary: If you read "Interview" you must read this!!!
Review: Interview with the vampire was told from Louis's limited perspective. Lestat purposely kept him in the dark (no pun intended!) about the history and the meaning of being "undead." This book is written not only from Lestat's point of view, but by Lestat himself! (Ms. Rice would have the reader believe, anyway). It adds amazing depth to the tale started in "Interview", and takes the reader through centuries of richness and beauty (and blood of course) in Paris, Egypt, New Orleans, and London, answering "unanswered" questions and creating a vivid, complex, dark world of vampires. If you can read this book, and not long for "Queen of the Damned" (next book in series), you and I are as different as night and day. Being a faithful vampire reader, I'll take night

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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!:)
Review: ANNE RICE HAS DONE IT AGAIN. THIS BOOK IS FANTASTIC! I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. AFTER THIS BOOK I BEGAN TO RESPECT LESTAT AS I NEVER DID AFTER I READ INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE. I COULD READ HER BOOKS FOREVER!! AND WLL

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Summary: A journey with the Vampire Lestat through time.
Review: Here I am once again writing a review for one of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Although this book can get a little slow at times, it is once again proof that Anne Rice has explored the minds of her readers through message of the Vampire Lestat. This book is, of course, about Lestat and his adventures through time. All the question you had about any of the characters in the first edition of the Vampire Chronicles are answered within the content of this marvelous piece of literature. There are so many unexpected things that occur in this story that it almost makes you jump when you read it, as if it were a very suspeseful movie. You may cry, you may laugh. But I gurantee you that you will love this book, especially if you are a fan of Ms. Rice. I recently went to a book-signing in Atlanta of Ms. Anne's. You could tell from the minute she opened her mouth to speak with you (and she DOES speak with everyone who approaches) that she is a truly genuine person. So...read the book.... ----JCB

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Summary: Wild and savage and utterly unnatural....
Review: The reader is entranced and captivated by the story, as it plunges into the lush world of the immortals, with their provocative beauty and eternal guilt and passion. It forces you to examine the world in a new way, to see it through the eyes of an immortal, to ponder their dilemma of murder or life. It examines society in a new light - the dark side of humanity is exposed, one which hungers for the touch of these savage, yet emotional drinkers of blood. The characters are vivid and magnetic, torn between loving and loathing themselves and each other. Full of shadowy beauty..

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Summary: Mysterious, Thrill, and Historical
Review: One of good work of Anne Rice. If you really get into vampire stuff, like myself, this is the book you must read. Most mysterious book of three vampire chronicles I read. It has history about Lestat and all vampire kind. Even though Lestat was the most "damned creature" in this book, he had some good side that wasn't shown to others. Two thumbs up. - Felix Lim

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Summary: Oustanding!
Review: I loved this book! The story was so vivid, extremely sensual. Lestat is one of the sexiest vampire in the supernatural world. I loved this book as much as I adored Desires Unleashed by D.N. Simmons. I love novels with sexy vampires and awesome story lines! I'll be reading the rest in this series!

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Summary: The Vampire Lestat
Review: Although Interview With The Vampire is more famous than The Vampire Lestat, I think the books are very incomplete individually. I liked that in this book, a lot of things Louis hates about Lestat are explained, and hearing Lestat's perspective was very enlightening and makes his and Louis' stories much more three-dimensional. This is a well-written and engrossing book, one of my favorites, and I highly recommend it.

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Summary: the best book from the chonicles
Review: Read "Interview with the vampire" first and than try to change the perspective and see it from Lestat's point of view. First you'll get to know Lestat and than you change your mind if in the first book Louis described him as quite evil, you'll like him. Also you discover some amazing things about Armand, who you get to love even more. I really think that this is the best one. I wish I could give it 10 stars!

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Summary: best book
Review: Annotation: Present day, in a room with only a small boy and a deadly vampire. Revealing his life story over 200's year as a living dead. Leading into the night when he departed human existence and became a living dead. Lestat was the vampire that introduced him to the dark side. Being who Louis was he couldn't come to kill living people, trying to live he stayed alive on rats in the allies, and cocks on the plantation. Finding a young girl, Claudia. He tells how she turned into a vampire. As years went on her intelligence and passion is trapped in a child's body. Meeting Armand who bring's them into a vampire society. The story is danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal.


Author Bio: Born in New Orleans, October 4th 1941. Anne Rice was the second of four daughters. Anne's real name was Howard Allen O'brien. Her mother passed away at age fourteen in 1956. She married to Stan Rice in 1961 on October 14th. Earning her bachelors degree in 1964 along with her BA in political Science, and Creative Writing in 1965. Anne published her first short story in transfer call "October 4, 1948." 1973 Anne turned the Interview with the Vampire into a novel in a five week period. Anne wrote twenty five novels and four short story's.


Evaluation: Interview with the Vampire is about a man named Louis who lives a horrible life. He is given the chance by another vampire by the name of Lestat to depart from all he knows and change over to a life of mysterious and Murder. Changing over made him seem as if he was a newborn infant, seeing the world as no man has ever seen it before. Lestat at his side to guide him and teach him what to do and what not to do. Being the kind person that Louis is he couldn't bring him self to drain the life out of the living. Knowing he has to survive he instead feeds on rats in allies and chickens on farms. Desiring the taste of young and innocent blood he comes across a young girl. Draining her right up to the point of death, he leaves her. Ashamed of what he did he throws the body on the bed and runs for hiding. Lestat followed the trail of dead rats he finds Louis. Brings him back to the little girl, Louis thinks that he killed her. Lestat reassures him that she in fact isn't dead. Lesate changes the little girl named Claudia into a vampire. Louis and Lestat guide Claudia trying to make her into a mature vampire, they take the role of fathers to her. Working side by side Claudia and Louis kill off hole family's, just for fun. They'd kill for fun, not for hungry. Years later Claudia's figured out that her intelligence and passion was trapped in side the body of one of a little girl forever. Claudia had told Louis about a plan she had to execute Lestat, and to free them from him forever. The plan slowly carried out. Claudia waked to Lestat asking for a truces, and offering him a present to make her word honest. Two blonde little boys, young blood. He agrees, finds the little boys and starts to drain the blood out of there body's. Vampires aren't supposed to drink the blood of the dead. Lestat drank the blood and slowly fell on the floor gasping for air, he was dying because of dead blood. The planned work or so they think. Claudia and Louis traveled around the world trying to find where they belong. Stumbling upon a vampire society in the theater called the Theatre des Vampires. The leader of this association went by the name Armand. The society didn't like the idea of a child vampire, that it could expose them. Lestat came back into the picture wanting to get revenge on the little girl and his old companion. Claudia could sence that Louis wanted to go separate way so she went out and found a women named Madeleine to take care of her. Madeleine agreed to be changed into a vampire so that her age wouldn't change and that she would always be around to tend to Claudia. Louis didn't like the idea of it, thinking about it he finally agreed. After she changed over the society captured the three and split them up. Madeleine and Claudia had a painful death in for them. Louis was to be put in a coffin for eternity. Armand found out about and freed Louis but it was so late for the girls. Wanting revenge he soaked the theater, the coffins in gas, ignited it and killed everyone who had to do with Claudia's death. Years later he was still friends with Armand, he visited Lestat and said goodbye forever. The boy recording didn't believe that that was the ending. Louis disappeared never to be hear from again.

I loved the book. I have never enjoyed a book that was mandatory to read as much as I did this. I love the mystery, the murder, the wonder. I never wanted to put the book down. I love the way she Made you fall in love with the vampire's and see things how they saw them.