Okay, so two stars because I didn't even get into the book until the last few chapters. I broke my usual rule of "give it 100 pages before giving up" because it's yet another installment of Vampire Chronicles! I've been reading Rice's rambling theology since 7th grade when I had no job and I had the TIME to read her banter. Now I have a job among books that ironically takes precious time away from reading them, but I still want to catch up with my buddies Louis and Lestat (mainly Lestat). Yet, since Blackwood Farm, either my life has gotten busier or her writing has gotten more rambling, I've found that nothing really happens until the last few chapters. Same with this one. And I think Anne Rice has taken yet another weird turn in the supernatural world our beloved vampires live in. Witches? Fine. Body swapping? Sure, whatevs. Ghosts and spirits? Turns out they're very prevalent.

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Alien birds that hate mammals and feed off their despair and suffering, so they send in artificially created beings to stir the pot on Earth and these beings end up not following orders and can live forever and can clone themselves from severed limbs? Uh, whut??? Oh, and vampires are slowly turning into a biological, glass-like substance created by Amel who is the spirit that created all vampires and is actually a modified human abducted by the bird aliens? Anne Rice, what the FUCK have you been smoking?!

Also, someone is weeping almost every other page. Seriously. I'm waiting for my digital library copy of the Kindle book so I can do a word count.

Update: Word count on "weep": 42 times. "Wept": 10 times.