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when I think about the most recent books in the Vampire Chronicles saga, they all are somehow bad for different reasons while still having its funny/endearing moments, but it’s with surprise that I realize that my favorite in this wild new canon is actually Prince Lestat and The Realms of Atlantis, the one that I was mostly skeptical of when I first read about
Prince Lestat makes me SO angry. It’s bad because I kind hate how it destabilizes the old rules of canon and seems to forget the errors of the past. I think it’s a horrible idea for the vampires to live under a monarchy. I think it’s even a more awful idea for Lestat to be this monarch because Lestat is a) still a relatively young vampire and b) Lestat is VERY instable and it just feels dumb to believe the old ass vampires would just obey him like that lmao. Prince Lestat is also bad because it introduce a fuckton of new characters and mostly of them are so bland that they just mix up in my head and quite frankly it would have more emotional impact if it had a narrative composed of most known vampires. But Prince Lestat does have some good in the fact that at least a little it tries to rebuild some of the relationships left on hold in previous books so ehh it’s the only good thing I can think of naming, really
Now Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis… it’s bad because the history of the aliens feels so detached from the rest of the book, the way it was written. It’s not a /bad/ history, but it feels like it shouldn’t belong in the book, like it should have it’s own book or something. The pace is weird. But PLROA is my favorite of the new ones because it has so much investment in the relationships and yes especially Lestat/Louis lmao they have some amazing couple-y moments and Louis was well written for the first time in AGES and it makes my heart warm to read their scenes together that I’m willing to overlook all the other things in the book that make me mad, lmao
Now Blood Communion was perhaps the most disappointing one. I thought a one-person-only narrative would have been better after two books overflowing with bland character povs, but nah. The most disappointing thing about this book is that Lestat feels utterly soulless and even the cute moments with Louis aren’t so cute because his emotional response is so cold. In fact the only thing I truly love in this book is the very emotional, very strong spat between Lestat and Armand, because somehow Armand is the only vampire who makes some kind of god damned sense in this book because otherwise I hate pretty much every choice Anne makes to this new vampire court and the pace of this book is utterly atrocious
Oh wait lmao, there’s another part of the book I love - one of the few L/L moments where Lestat doesn’t feel soulless is at the end, where him and Louis are dancing together. That was cute
He looked to Gabrielle, who stood near the fire, and then to me. And silently, he said, Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me. This silent entreaty had an eloquence, however, that I can’t put into words. “What can I do to make you love me? ” he whispered. “What can I give? The knowledge of all I have witnessed, the secrets of our powers, the mystery of what I am?”
Armand and Lestat, The Vampire Lestat (1985)-Anne Rice
“Fool,” he said again. His voice was roughened now by emotion he couldn’t suppress. “I have always loved you,” he said. “I have loved you more than any being in all the world whom I’ve ever loved. I have loved you more than Louis. I have loved you more even than Marius. And you have never given me your love. I would be your most faithful counselor, if you allowed it. But you don’t. Your eyes pass over me as if I don’t exist. And so they always have.”
Armand and Lestat, Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat (2018) -Anne Rice
"Of course Louis released Rose and then he bowed just as if he were at a ball in old New Orleans after the opera. I came up beside him and took his hand.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“Dancing with you,” I said. I turned him easily this way and that to the music. I could see he found this immediately awkward, to be dancing with me as a woman might dance with a man, and then something playful and vibrant came into his eyes. He gave himself up to it. I turned us around fast twice and then three times, and we broke the pattern and then my arm slipped around his waist and I danced beside him, in step with him, like the Greek men do it. “Do you like this better?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” he said. He appeared brimming with happiness. But I was the one truly brimming with happiness. The music seemed to move us as if we were powerless, borne along exquisitely, and then we faced each other again and we were simply dancing in a loose, comfortable embrace, intimate, making one body and then two bodies, and one body again. All around us were dancers, dancers pressing in so that at last we were dancing without really moving our feet. But what did it matter? One can dance that way. One can dance a thousand ways."
"I love you with my whole soul, and I will always love you,ā he confided to me. āYou are my life. I have hated you for that and love you now so much that youāve been my instructor in loving. And believe me when I say you will survive this, and that you must for all of us. You will survive because you always have and you always will."
Attention, fans of Loustat! I took one for the team and messaged Mater about whether we would see any more scenes between them in the next book (I mean, Louis being dropped is a constant fear, lbr). Here’s her response!
I DID NOT KNOW THANK U FOR INFORMING ME (HAPPY CAPS OR TERRIFIED CAPS?? IDK BOTH)
^LOOK AT THIS EXTREMELY RED COVER. LET IT BURN YOUR EYES OUT WITH ITS GLORY (can I just at that the blurred pixelation around the letters makes it look like it’s a meme but it is very much NOT).
“The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga–part adventure, part fairy-tale–of Prince Lestat and the story of the Blood Communion as he tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead, and how, against his will, he must battle the menacing, seemingly unstoppable force determined to thwart his vision and destroy the entire vampire netherworld.
In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the riveting story of the formation of the Blood Communion and how he became Prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast force, and how his vision for all the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be.
The tale spills from Lestat’s heart, as he speaks first of his new existence as reigning monarch–and then of his fierce battle of wits and words with the mysterious Rhoshamandes, proud Child of the Millennia, reviled outcast for his senseless slaughter of the legendary ancient vampire Maharet, forever wise and loving and twin to Mekare the Keeper of the Sacred Core; Rhoshamandes, a force who refuses to live in harmony at the Court of Prince Lestat and threatens all that Lestat has dreamt of.
As the tale unfolds, Lestat takes us from the towers and battlements of his ancestral castle in the snow-covered mountains of France to the verdant wilds of lush Louisiana with its lingering fragrances of magnolias and night jasmine; from the far reaches of the Pacific’s untouched islands to the 18th-century city of St. Petersburg and the court of the Empress Catherine …”
I think we may be spared the birb aliems tho so there’s that!!!
