That sounds super-cute--kind of like Susan Isaacs.
I know, world in peril and we have to work together. This is my last office romance, I'll tell you that.
Buffy ,'End of Days'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Oct 29, 2014 1:38:28 pm PDT #22810 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
Atropa - Oct 29, 2014 5:57:45 pm PDT #22811 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I finished Prince Lestat, and I had a lot of fun with it. No references to the Mayfair Witches crossover books! Lestat being, well, LESTAT.
I'd say, in terms of writing skill, Prince Lestat falls somewhere around the level of Queen of the Damned and The Witching Hour, but with a little more control. Everyone doesn't go off on epic historical philosophy tangents at the drop of a lace cravat.
Amy - Oct 29, 2014 5:59:12 pm PDT #22812 of 28343
Because books.
Aw, I loved the Mayfair witches! At least the first one.
Atropa - Oct 29, 2014 6:01:16 pm PDT #22813 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Exactly. The first Mayfair Witches book is lots of fun. Lurid, sprawling family secrets, home decor and entertaining descriptions to make Martha Stewart sob in envy. But I recently tried to reread Lasher and Taltos, and ... wow. No.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2014 6:29:38 pm PDT #22814 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I will occasionally re-read just the Mona parts of Lasher. So much potential there, so utterly squandered.
Amy - Oct 29, 2014 6:55:05 pm PDT #22815 of 28343
Because books.
I love that you do that. I do that! I didn't know other people did, too.
Atropa - Oct 29, 2014 7:15:24 pm PDT #22816 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
That's what I ended up doing this last time I tried to reread Lasher.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 29, 2014 8:43:17 pm PDT #22817 of 28343
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I love the Mona parts of Lasher, too! The Witching Hour is sort of too much world building for me. I also can't quite get over how much Interview made me love Louis, so I still want to see Louis to the exclusion of Lestat. and the Vampire Lestat made me love Lestat. And I sort of want a big happy Louis/Lestat ending someday.
Steph L. - Oct 30, 2014 3:20:55 am PDT #22818 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I love that you do that. I do that! I didn't know other people did, too.
The rest of it is just too...meh. Well, I like the Aaron and Beatrice parts, too.
Cass - Oct 30, 2014 4:24:24 pm PDT #22819 of 28343
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
The last Anne Rice book I read was Queen of the Damned. Would I be totally lost if I skipped to Prince Lestat?
I haven't even read the new one (I've had it for days but it's either sleep or read and I can't functionally work with no sleep anymore and I don't want to get fired, so it's waiting until the weekend) but I think I can safely say that if you stopped at QotD, you have kept more of your soul than the rest of us.
It needs to be the weekend. I have a book to read.