Which is supposed to be set immediately after Queen of the Damned, which means none of the body-switching, Lestat goes to Heaven/Hell/trips balls nonsense! Just ... Lestat having been a rock star, being kidnapped and fed super-powerful ancient blood, and nearly helping to destroy most of civilization?
Oh. Oh! Really? I want to read that!
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Cool. I'm 206 on the list, with 130 copies. That's not bad. But maybe I should check the ebook list, too.
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Okay, added to that list, too. I'm 17 on the list, with 4 copies. I'm curious to see which one turns up first.
Ooh. I've been holding out but I should buy Ancillary Sword.
There are so few things that are legal and available and relaxing, without costing tons or causing a hangover. Books are what I got.
I'm about halfway through Prince Lestat and am enthralled. It's lurid and overblown, but it's also got a thread of self-aware gentle mockery, and it seems to be a return to the sort of epic potboiler supernatural plots and schemes plots. If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.
Oh, and it's not set right after QotD, but there's been NO mention of the misguided Mayfair Witches cross-over nonsense from Blackwood Farm or Blood Canticle.
The last Anne Rice book I read was Queen of the Damned. Would I be totally lost if I skipped to Prince Lestat?
I'm about halfway through Prince Lestat and am enthralled. It's lurid and overblown, but it's also got a thread of self-aware gentle mockery, and it seems to be a return to the sort of epic potboiler supernatural plots and schemes plots. If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.
YES. Woo! Come on, holds list!
If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.
And if it does it will be a worthy successor to the rest of the series! Either way I think we win.
Damnit Jilli, your tumblr post and read has me wanting to read it too!
I am HOPING I can "sneak out" of work early (I work from home) so I can finish the book.
Rayne, you might get a little lost with massive cast of characters, but when there's references to events in the other books, there's some context given. Without falling into the
"As you know, Marius"
trap, too. Because let's face it, even the die-hard Vampire Chronicles fans (cough cough) can't keep track of everything.
This short story by Max Gladstone may be of interest to some in the room: "A Kiss With Teeth"
Excellent story!
Great line from early in made me laugh:
in the sixties he met a traveling volcano god in Fiji, who’d given up sacrifices when he found virgins could be had more easily by learning to play guitar
