The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice Reviews

I first read this book when I was about 16 needless to say at that time I did not trully grasp the incredible talent that was at my finger tips. I have since that time doubled in age and then some and have reread the book. I am happy to say that now with a understanding it is one of the best books I have ever read. Lestat is ...  Read the complete review

This is an amazing book! Rice writes with such beauty and passion for her characters and I found it hard to put this book down! It is mystical and beautiful and a great addition to any book shelf; one of my favourites. For anyone who has seen the film version of Interview with the Vampire or read the book, this is Lestat's version of ...  Read the complete review

The Vampire Lestat is the second in the 'Vampire Chronicles' series by Anne Rice. Actually, just to cause confusion, it's technically the first as it precedes 'Interview with the Vampire' but was written and published many years later! The beauty of it is though that you really don't need to read one to read the other - you can read either and ...  Read the complete review

This book really got me excited as I turn each page. Anne Rice has a very unique way in expressing ideas to the readers. I brought her Book II five years ago and until now from time to time I would still read this book because I really like the "beliefs and ideas exchanged" by Lestat( Anne Rice's vampire hero). Another thing ...  Read the complete review

"The Vampire Lestat" was written after "The Interview with the Vampire" (IV) A book wrote from the perspective of Louis. In IV We follow as Louis goes through his mortal life, his transformation into a vampire, his dealing with immortality and his thirst for blood. "The Vampire Lestat" is almost wrote as a ...  Read the complete review

I have always been a bit of a sucker (forgive the pun) for a bad boy, and here he is the baddest of them all. Lestat De Lioncourt, I could hear him purring the words Anne Rice had written in his seductive French accent. He was telling his story directly to me as I read this book for the first time. I was seduced by the cold French winters, the ...  Read the complete review

I tell no fibs, honestly. Would I use a cheap trick like that? Following on from Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice wrote The Vampire Lestat as the second part of The Vampire Chronicles. As a quick recap (but if you haven’t read Interview with the Vampire or seen the film, this will mean nothing to you!), Lestat ...  Read the complete review

"The Vampire Lestat" is Anne Rice's unlikely sequal to "Interview with a Vampire" - a very different book, which I found reinvented the first novel. "Interview" persented Lestat as quite a monstrous and frightening figure, a keeper of secrets, and tormentor of humanist Louis. In this sequal, we get a ...  Read the complete review

I have just finished reading the second book of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. It has taken just a few days to read. A fatter book than the first, it was compelling reading, and I just could not put it down. I found myself not only reading this at bedtime, but in the middle of the day too. If you have read my opinion on ...  Read the complete review

Please excuse the corny title but I just couldn't resist... :-) I've read most of Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. They are amazing! The best bit of (modern) fiction I've read in ages for entertainment value, suspense, eroticism, atmosphere and all. The vampire novels are just great in their fascinating ...  Read the complete review

At once a sequel and a prequel to Interview with the Vampire, this fleshes out the charming, bloodthirsty Lestat. From a new perspective, Anne Rice develops her stories of the vampires that stalk the shadows. Again, they are shown as complicated characters, especially the anti-hero Lestat himself, with his talents and dreams. But his flamboyance ...  Read the complete review

'The Vampire Lestat' is perhaps, in my opinion, the finest novel in the Vampire Chronicles. Whereas by the third volume she was beginning to become slightly repetitive, this novel approaches the nature of Vampirism in a very different way to Interview with the Vampire. The novel follows the Vampiric experiences of Lestat, the cornerstone ...  Read the complete review