Title: Poor, mediocre, moderate perhaps, but far from good.
Product review: A good enough novel from another author perhaps, but from Anne Rice? It feels as if she has straight jacketed herself in the mythic laws of both her own vampire history and those of the christian church.Too much retelling here and not enough new content.Lestat has descended into neurotic paranoia, as well he might being pursued by the devil, but who wants to read about a nervous wreck?Gone is the suave charm of the vampires as instead of being the hidden power amongst mortals they chitter and whine and are changed from being beguiling into wretched pathetic uninteresting characters.Does Lestat's final state indicate redemption? Is his wound at the hand of Memnoch and his understanding of the suffering in hell a way for he himself to be redeemed? Is he a more extreme form of Roger or even Uncle Mickey? I was left not caring, Lestat is transformed from a fiery star into a vapid lilting weasel spouting pastel philosophy.
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