Make no mistake, I think three stars is being generous as fuck and is entirely motivated by nostalgia. 

This used to be one of my favourite books, and if you'd asked me a month ago, I would have told you that this was the best thing Anne had written. Maybe it is? Idk it's so hard to tell now bc I'm always interrogating the text from the wrong perspective. 

A few years ago (that's a lie, I think it was actually around 8) a good friend of mine came to visit for the weekend and we watched Interview with the Vampire while playing drinking games with other friends in IRC. After that, we continued drinking and decided to put on the adaptation of this movie (which I had only seen once and tried to get my money back bc it made me so mad). I spent the entirety of the film drunkenly ranting about the shit they'd gotten wrong bc they LEFT OUT ALL THE BEST BITS! Re-reading, I was shocked to realize that what I thought were the best bits really didn't take up all that much of the book. Instead I was bored to fucking tears with all of the Lestat x Akasha bullshit. I do still love the Legend of the Twins and the Devil's Minion portions of the book, but the rest of it is incredibly mid and I'm glad I never have to read it again. 

[eta] 3 was an impulsive star rating, I used my review rubric and it was actually a 2½ on my personal scale. Letting the 3 stand. For now.