He told the tale as he believed it.

I can’t tell if I liked the music scenes/parts of this novel. I really can’t, maybe because I just don’t care about the rapture of live music that much or more to the point, the times I have felt it, I don’t think I would have enjoyed reading about it. It’s a sui generis experience captured in a singular moment and so a description of it automatically loses the magic of it. I can’t think of something much more impossible to describe than this.

However, I did like this novel for the most. Big chunks of it dragged, but ultimately I did like what it had to say. Even more so, I liked being caught back up with characters that I was invested in. I liked the 20th century parts a lot more than any other parts.

What I REALLY liked about this novel is how challenging the narrator is and how his mission is to challenge Louis from Interview with the Vampire. Changing the stakes and casting doubt immediately on his own narrative as well as the previous novel’s was pretty masterful. So I felt that the first 100 pages of this was brilliant. So was the last 100. The middle 300 was a little meh for me. I think that maybe I read this too soon after having read Interview with a Vampire and I need to really think about it for a bit before I really decide to read the third novel.

Part of the problem is that I am reading a long novel about the French Revolution and maybe these were too similar in aesthetic.

Here’s my unofficial review:

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