it only took me 48 days to read a 350-ish-page book but i did it!! now from how long it took me to read this you'd think i hated this but i didnt.... slow-paced books just take me a While.
i gotta say the characters are really the only good parts of this book. everything else blowed. shout out gay people as well.
louis is my pookie. i think he was a great mc. he was also so funny. why does nobody talk about how mf funny louis is. bro is out here calling lestat a gay vampire... pot calling kettle sweetie. plus claudia is all "pookie pls dont go i'm literally gonna kms if u do" and theres a line break and then louis goes. louis is a comedian. i kind of had no attachment to his moral drama around being mortal. his long tangents about crashing out over the smallest things kinda bored me by the end but yet again it was kinda funny how melodramatic my boy was.
lestat can fuck off. moving on.
claudia! baby girl! im gonna be honest even tho every mention of claudia features her blonde ringlets, idc im picturing her like the show adaptation. she was also quite funny. most of the times tho i pictured a lot older than 5 y/o so my ass was confused. but this is because im a dumbass this is not miss rice's fault. i felt so bad for her a lot of the time because bro i would be pissed too if i was eternally a 5 y/o. by the end of the story homegirl is like at least 70 years old i'd be fuming too.
and on that note... hey what the fuck. why is there randomly incest subtext between louis and claudia. i was expecting some wholesome daddy daughter vampire murder yay! instead i got... Yuck! bro louis what the Fuck. every time louis called her his paramour i wanted to blow up the moon. anne rice what were u thinking. honestly by the end i pretended it didnt exist and was head-cannoning claudia as a lesbian so i could block this subplot out of my mind.
every other character was surface level and boring. did not care a lick.
the plot.... Ehhhhhh. nothing going on was ever engaging until the climax of each part. i seriously was PUSHING to read this until some wacky shit was going down and then i was sat. and then right after i was bored out of my brains again. anne rice pookie what was this. walking simulator book 101 /j (i hate that criticism but tbh this book was moreso a philosophy simulator book).
what else can i say? there really is nothing more to this book. seeing a GAY CHARACTER be canon in a book from the 70s(?) eats. the three main characters eat. thats kind of it. if i did not feel a bond with louis because hes so fucking pathetic i wouldve given this a 3-star. also i almost cried at the end of part 3 because i was so distraught. this book was Perfectly Average.
will i continue this series? sure! i would rather blow my brains out than read a book with lestat as the main character but also i need to read the queen of the damned so i can see aliyah in all her glory on the big screen.