I don’t know if this is a good book or not. It’s pretty silly at times…for example, there’s a part in which someone gives Lestat a VHS copy of the Judge Reinhold/Fred Savage movie Vice Versa…a body switching movie from the 80s that I saw about 50 times as a kid. But in the same moments, this person also gives Lestat copies of a HP Lovecraft story…and I do really like the trope of using real-life books and stories about vamapires and the undead and […]
More like irritated and vaguely excited
A sequel to Anne Rice’s (The Mummy), the story picks up immediately following the events of the last book, as promised by Rice with the postscript “The Adventures of Ramses the Damned Shall Continue”. Co-written with her son Christoper Rice, RtD:tPoC is about Ramses, an immortal being who was Ramses II – existing incognito as “Reginald Ramsey”, an egyptologist (no really) and his fiancé Julie Stratford, an heiress, newly granted immortality by a secret ancient potion. Set in the Edwardian period, the couple’s adventures are leading […]
Queen of the Danged
Another couple months pass and I read another book from the series I keep trying to convince myself I am going to stop. Apparently I am going to be really mad when I get to the bad ones. This is not one of the bad ones, in fact, it’s a really good one. The overarching plot is still a little silly and I actually wish the series would stay small, where it’s best ,but it’s trying to be big. So Lestat is a rock star […]
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, […]