can't even rate this because i have very mixed feelings towards it. and by "mixed" i mean i adore the show yet disliked the very thing it's based on. this might be the only time i've wholeheartedly thought the screen adaptation is infinitely better than the book. like, this is really my biggest takeaway from it.

i mostly read this because i'm interested in the following books but i'm pretty sure if i'd picked this up with no previous context to both this story and future ones i would've dnf'ed at some point. the only thing i truly enjoyed was claudia (the greatest to ever do it in every version) and even then a great part of what i disliked about it involved her, unfortunately. also, book louis is fucking annoying, get that white imposter out of my face. 

i'm still excited to read the vampire lestat and queen of the damned, specifically, but wow. anne rice is definitely in hell rn.