I know, I know. The Vampire Chronicles are not for the week. This books is nine years older than I am. But I feel like I want to cry, to be honest.
A good chunk of it is regular Lestat shenanigans. But he's also suicidal. And he's still Lestat and he takes a very dumb bargain of the body exchange. But he also meets a dog named Mojo. Honestly, the HumanStat turned out to be not so bad. Somewhat of a testament about loneliness as well. Everybody is rich as always, which is good, but he does suffers through some winter days which I totally get. See, we hate winter, we are besties, right?
To a point.
The whole bit with Louis is not suprising at all. Louis is a mop and a mop he was, but Marius apparition was…there. Sure, okay. In this day and age we are not vibing with Marius and I hope to hear less about him. The anger Lestat feels, though, got to me. This dumbass truly needed his other dumbass and that one refused! Was the arson justified? For the kicking of Mojo, yeah.
I thought the rape scene would freak me out the most in this book. Humaning with Lestat was horrible, I do not like being human as it is, but sure, he admits his mistakes, though I don't think he needed to remind the girl about that. Him later saying something along the lines of rape and torture being a vampire path to glory is horrendous. It's not a path to glory, it's violence etched in history that characters won't or can't overcome for reasons probably not explored in the lore.
What shook me to my core was The Turning of David Talbot. Or should I call it The Taking? It would have been one thing if Lestat just popped in and did it. Nooo, Lestat lets him go for a moment, the narrative lets him plead and makes me reconsider calling Lestat my demented bestie. I do that to show!Lestat, I don't know who that demon twonk is. I got the same whiplash Lestat gets in the last chapter because he doesn't deserve forgiveness. For his broken brain and broken-self-mended heart, he has too much power and there's no realization, only consequences that don't slap him too hard. Or do they? I don't know yet. There a fucking coven now, how cute.
I liked David Talbot. I get why people are waiting for him in the show. But him saying that Lestat took away his moral fall? The need to change his mind? Girl. Okay, I can see how tired he was, how solemn about the idea of dying and never seeing India again. I'll be thinking about his turning at night. I've heard before that he gets turned, but god forbid I thought that it would be Lestat.
Claudia's haunting was interesting too. I feel like something like this will be implemented in the show. I don't want to say goodbye to Claudia. Ever. But that bit was actually very riveting to read.
Raglan James? Sure. I think as a concept, with his origin and powers, he's kind of cool. But the book makes too many points about how dumb he is. Dumb, vain, greedy and kind of just useless in a wrong body. Maybe, in the show Talamasca haven't wronged him yet. I don't know. Lestat drained my strength to think.
That's a lot of words and probably a lot of typos. In all truth, this book is written better than Queen Of The Damned, by far. It's truly a horror novel. I am so tired.
by skylerren