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Summary: Beauty
Review: This book is very beautiful. The writing is fluent and charming. Anne Rice is able to put such powerful emotions into writing that it's nearly shocking to read her books. This book is able to take you from the depths of hell to the beauty of a starry night in Egypt, or tropical jungles of wonder and mystery. The deal of the vampires and who they are and what they do is a bit too mysterious and it can get a bit confusing UNTIL Lestat meets Marius and Marius explains everything quite well. I believe in her first book, (Interview w/vampire) she had a more defined plot, but The Vampire Lestat is still a great book. :) It's much more "adventure" style and Lestat is a less "tragic" character than Louis.
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Summary: Eye opening look into the notorious vampire Lestat....
Review: Ths is an eye-opener. In the first book of the series(Interview), we see through Louis's eyes. Lestat as an unfeeling and cruel monster feeding off of humans. Not so we find out in the second book here.
Lestat sees the book Louis has written about him on the bookshelves and is shocked that his beloved Louis would see him as such a monster and even more stunned that he would dare print such a true account of a vampire's life with names attached. Such a thing is a sure ticket to destruction by the old ones of their kind.
Wanting to set the record straight to Louis and us the readers, he has put together an account of his life in his own words. Braving the wrath of the old ones also and willing it to protect Louis.
We see him as a mortal living as a marquis's son in pre-revolutionary France. No love from his father and a cool reception from his mother, he takes us through those hard years when he turned 21 and killed a pack of wolves and barely survived. The killing of the wolves set into motion what would happen to him a year later.
Going out on his own in Paris to be in the theatre with his best friend Nick, fate steps in. Just a year later Lestat loving life and living his dream, yet scorned by his family is chosen by one of the old ones for the Dark Gift.
Loving it at first, soon he realizes he cannot live as a mortal any longer and hatred soon eats at him. He longs to be one of the humans. He misses Nick. He misses his life. He feeds reluctantly at first, only on evildoers and the like, then becomes bored and lonely.
Years pass and he becomes lonely and frightened of forever. Nearly 300 years and still he is lonely. Tragedy and heartbreak shape the life of a talented actor, now turned killer.
He tells of those days with Louis and Claudia and her deception. His wanderings and run ins with other vampires like Armand, Marius, and Those Who Must be Kept. The oldest of all vampires. The story ends with Lestats fascination with The Queen of the Damned and waking her from her slumber of 4,000 years.
He is a marquis's son, an actor, a vampire, a business man, a rockstar in the 1980's and in the end, a lonely soul looking for redemption.
Well worth the time reading. Sometimes frightening and sometimes romantic, Lestat brings us a thrill ride through time and space.Tracy Talley~@
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Summary: nights creatures
Review: the story starts the same as the last one with lestat talking to the reader and this is one of my favorite parts of the way Anne Rice writes. I liked most off the book it only some things unansered. Hopefully the next one answers them. I had agreat time becomeing the chareters. The story is so is to get into. When i read it i realy felt like i was there. The story makes me feel good. Iliked comming home from school and reading it. I think anyone that is looking to read something that is a little twisted this is for them.
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Summary: fantastic fun!
Review: this book blows "interview with the vampire" out of the water. rice gives a much more in-depth history of the featured vampire in this book than she did with the main vamp of book one. it's much longer than the first, but this is a much quicker read. this book has a lot more hapiness, romance, and adventure in it than book one did. rice writes as poetically as usual, but this time she puts tons of action and in it and she reveals lots of mysteries (pretty much all of them) that were left unsolved in book one. book one was alright, at about 3.7/5, but this book will definately take the vampire chronicles into action for disappointed book-one-readers. bear with the slow-spots in the middle and perservere to the end and you won't be disappointed (you'll only be left wanting more, MORE!).
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Summary: i read this book only to fall in love
Review: This book is my favorite one of the vampire chronicles. After reading this book I fell in love with the vampire who was the villain in "interview with the vampire." Other than that, the story itself was beautiful and Lestat's colorful character made it even better.
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Summary: Rescued the Vampire Chronicals!
Review: I wasn't sure I wanted to spend the money for the paper this book was printed on after reading Interview with a Vampire, but I'm terribly glad that I did! This book brought the Vampire Chronicals back from a near-death experience for me, and I was wholly relieved to find that I enjoyed it thoroughly. Far from being the feind that Louis would have us believe, Lestat is an interesting and multi-dimensional character, up to par with the rest of Anne Rice's work.
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Summary: Frightening and mystical; a collection of moral questions
Review: "The Vampire Lestat" is Anne Rice's excellent sequel/prequel to "Interview with the Vampire" that weaves the two novels together into one large story (later continued with "The Queen of the Damned"). It's 1984 and legendary vampire Lestat is a rock star. This book is his "autobiography"; frightening and mystical, it's a page-turner that houses a collection of moral questions. From the snows of Auvergne to the stage of New Orleans, it's Anne Rice's chilling look at the history of her vampires.
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Summary: One of the greatest pieces of vampire literature
Review: This book was truly a work of art. Everything just seemed to fit right into place. In Interview with the vampire, Lestat was portrayed as sort of the villian if you will. Anne takes us way before the time of Louis and Claudia. Revealing the history of Enkil and Akasha, The legend of the great Marius, Gabrielle (I do hope I spelt that correctly), Lestat's mother who on the verge of death was made into a vampire by Lestat. His first creation if you will. The history of Armand and how he came to be and last but not least about Magnus who created Lestat, left him with a great fortune and flung himself into the flames. This is art.
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Summary: A real review
Review: This book gives you a better look at the Vampire Lestat, one of the main characters in The Interview with the Vampire. But in this book he is portraied as more of a good guy than before, where he seems kind of barbaric. But it shows and explains a lot about Lestat. And the end left me trembling (in anticipation).
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Summary: Intriguing
Review: I gave this book 4 stars because there is always room for improvement but it deserves five. Anne Rice expresses a very different vantage point for the life of a vampire. She demonstrates several views on life itself in this book that make a person think in a good way. The book starts before Lestat is a vampire which is a plus as well because you get a chance to watch him transition from human to vampire. Rice describes vampires in a way very different from any other writing I've known. It was very intriguing, a great read.
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