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Summary: ...
Review: A strange story with a plot that I couldn't really follow. There were stories from other people's POV and you can't tell if it's from a vampire or a human. And the book starts to look good when Akasha finally makes her appearance to the coven but in like two paragraphs, she dies at random when Mekare comes. The whole time, they were afraid of her and her all-powerfulness and some random vampire comes and kills her? That just makes the whole thing, well, pointless. It's an okay book because there wer some parts I did like but it really didn't make any sense.
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Summary: One of her very best
Review: I have read this book twice. It vies with "Interview with the vampire" for the honour of being my favourite Rice novel. Though interview is likely better, it has the advantage of being the first, whereas this has the disadvantage of being a sequel. The book's imagery is top quality as it explores the coming of an apocalypse for vampires all over the world. Akasha, the mother vampire, the source of vampirism, and the one who's death would bring about the deaths of all vampires, has awoken from her long sleep and is travelling the world, slaughtering her own kind, and creating visitations among third world communities, where she encourages them to slaughter their males to bring about a 'perfect' world, free of war, rape etc. Step in all the vampires we know and love from the previous two books (Armand, Louis, Marius, Lestat, Gabrielle), and a few new (and in my opinion even more interesting) ones led by a vampire as old as Akasha, the fascinating and bizarre character of Maharet, an old foe of hers, who was indirectly responsible for making Akasha a vampire 6000 years ago. These survivors gather and await a final meeting with their queen who's awakening was caused by the irreverent rock music of the vampire Lestat. There is also a love interest between Lestat and Akasha, and the highlight of the book, a spellbinding recounting of the events of six thousand years ago the Legend of the Twins, which is so skillfully and subtly brought to life. The book is packed so full of interesting new characters, that eventually even Marius begins to look unspectacular in comparison. There is the enigmatic Khayman who is as old as Akasha, and Mael, Eric and Azim, as well as Jesse and Daniel. I reallu enjoyed reading this book, and i would strongly recomend it to anyone who enjoys quality fiction. I can only give it four stars because a book that gets five should be nothing short of outstanding. But for me, four stars = excellent.
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Summary: Akasha, a Royal Pain in the Derrier
Review: An Absolute Classic By Anne Rice. Readers will be introduced to many key players in this novel, that will later on be revisited in their own settings. Sort of a Prequel sequel. A lot of jumping around, so pay close attention. Spectacular, i loved it!
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Summary: Well, I'll be damned...
Review: The main message remains as clear and complicated as ever, the art of being human and what it is to be human. Rice's books have always had an underlying tone of loneliness, that aching feeling that immortality would wrought. It is the obsessions of all humans as it continues but never ends and hopefully it never will. This story is tinged with a note of nostalgia, regret, longing, pain and suffering infused with wonder, beauty, love, questioning, pain and hope. It is philosophy eloquently captured in the words and phrases of a gifted, talented and insightful writer. What more could you ask for? I completely fell in love with Queen of the Damned. Readers who want a straight forward translation or a simple expression of words will not only be somewhat dissatisfied but may not find the patience that it need and takes for this kind of book. She does doesn't just do 'recap' but goes more indepth with the mythology of Akasha. In the 2nd book, we only got one perspective and a limited one at that. Perosnally, I enjoyed the historical tale behind the main story. Each chapter is its own, diverse in the beginning and all coming together quite beautifully. The stories that are within the story give you a broader perspective on many different characters. Many new characters are reintroduced, no new chracters actually come up, everyone in QotD have been mentioned before. However, I definitely loved certain parts better than others. With the 2nd one, I loved the whole thing, end of story. QotD, while I absolutely love it, a few small parts, I felt, could have been left out, shortened or expanded on. These are parts where many people get bored or impatient...BUT...don't give up!!! Keep going and read, you won't regret it. You really need to read it on its own merit rather than what others say. Keep an open and broad mind, if you're too biased with Rice's provocative ideas (on philosophy, religion and human nature in general), you won't enjoy the story as much. Truly, words really can't express how amazing this book genuinely is. Rice has always done an amazing job interjecting humor and clever bits into the story to soften the harshness of her motifs; you'll find that QotD is much darker than the first two. The dark material is engrossing, it captivated my attention completely. It's still the heavy and heady subject matter that Rice tackles eloquently, and OH! she does so graphically and beautifully. I still can't believe she wrote this in '88; the perceptions that she presents are so current, trascending. It has its own enigmatic allure that I've fallen in love with. Rice never answers her own questions that are posed in the book by characters, but merely imbues solutions, possible answers that are left up to the reader. She makes you think, this is no wham-bam-thank-you-'mam book. She still uses her words like an ink pen, voluptuous, full and satisfying. The descriptions are fantastic and you know exactly how it looks, how it feels. If you don't love it as I do, you will at least appreciate her story or at least her writing, which are both blow-your-mind fantastic on their own accord. READ, read and re-read Queen of the Damned.
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Summary: Great Story
Review: Where beauty and intricate characters made "The Vampire Lestat" a wonderful novel, fabulous story-telling takes over in "Queen of the Damned." Rice creates many detail stories (great in themselves) that come together in a spectacular ending that makes one crave the next volume. Very feminist.
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Summary: A Lot of back story
Review: Queen of the Damned follows directly from the Vampire Lestat. But before the reader can find out who is in Lestat's coffin with him at the end of the earlier book (although it's not much of a surprise), one must traverse several chapters of back story. In fact three quarters of the book is back story.
The main story is rather lifeless and I don't find Lestat an especially appealing character. The whole Rock star bit was extremely lame.
The history of vampires is interesting but it reads like a history, it has no story arc, and little drama. Drama that should be supplied by the main story just isn't there.
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Summary: IT WAS GREAT
Review: I have read all of Anne Rice's books and have found them all excellent. And this book is no exception. What I like best about her books is the way she portrays her vampires with such humanity yet at the same time doesn't let us forget that they are monsters.
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Summary: Languid, velvety worlds
Review: The third in Anne Rice's famous Vampire Chronicles, exquisite if you like purple prose and intricately laced descriptions of a setting now inextricably linked to the goth movement, and an inspiration to vampire fans the world over.
I really like Anne Rice, because it's easy to lose yourself in her languid, velvety worlds with their heavy scents and charismatic inhabitants.
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Summary: Akasha's Revenge
Review: This book is great if you are into vampires and vampire violence, blood, gore, and excitment, but if you are not I would not recommend you reading this. For those of you out there who love vampire related things, this book is perfect for you. While you are reading the context, you actually feel like you are there. Anne Rice does a great job of making your skin crawl as she describes the quick attacks that the vampires make in the middle of the night on their prey. She makes it feel like you are in a thriller movie when she tells how fast they can move and sneak up on their prey like the action figure Quicksilver. You do not even know that the vampire has you until you feel his fangs in your skin.
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Summary: Queen of the Damned
Review: This book is about A Vampire gone "rock-star" which i think is weird but anyway. It was ok. the book was wonderful.i had also seen the movie and I loved it. do also know that they're where supose ot be longer that it was but we all know it was because of the death of Aaliyah.:( it was really sad. But my favorite part of it all (in the movie),is when Lastat is with Jesse in his house,I think,and she wants him to "show her what it's like" and when he does, it's sch a beautiful seen because it shows that she'd so anything to be with him and he starts to notice that.But the thing I don't get is why would akasha wait 200 or 300 years to wake when she gave blood to Lastat..it's almost as if she was lazy to wake, and It had to be at that point when he was a "rock-star" and falling for Jesse.But afcourse the book wasnt the same as the movie..I be honest I've seen the movie about 50 times. and I'm not joking. Ihave the movie on a tape(copy) and the tape is wearing out.I'd have to copy it again. My sisters get annoyed by me watching it over and over again.. i even know the lines by heart.and i'm not joking for that eather.If some was to watch it with me. they's notice i'd be speaking they're words.Now just talking about it I feel like watching the movie again
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