Huge Anne Rice Fan...

So of course I loved it! I truly miss having the time to physically read her books, but this narrator makes me feel like the world of Lestat is coming to life just as it did when I read the book in the physical sense...

It is highly religion orientated, as I've seen described in some more scathing reviews, but if you read the blurb, it clearly states this premise.
Spoilers?: Lestat ends up contemplating Christian religion in such a way that those narratives almost don't feel like religious ones at the end of day, despite their clear reference to biblical events.

It's an idea on religion, and so well spoken one tends to get sucked in even if we aren't religious, if only we stop looking at it that way?

To add my own Lestat-esque touch to this review with a personally poignant and all together bohemian memory- after reading this book as a high school aged girl in a Catholic boarding school, I felt the truth of this fictional philosophy so deeply I ended up in weekend detention due to my elicited papers in Religious Studies!

It's a kind of personal delve into the personal philosophy of a person experiencing one particular religion. That 'person' also happens to be the Vampire Lestat!

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This is heavier than the previous books.

Wow. Anne Rice really went to a new level with this one. Having a break.

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Satisfied I have revisited this one

It was rather different to how I remembered it from reading it maybe 20 odd years ago. Back then it was the first book I read of Anne Rice, from that moment on I was hooked! Like always great performance by Author and Narrator!

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Well makes more sense than the bible

Good story , would've liked Lastat to question god abit more ending abit vague.

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A departure from form

Did Raglan James steal Anne Rice’s body to knock out this existential crisis on a typewriter? It seems the only logical explanation.
Nothing wrong with Simon Vance’s performance, but I do think both he and I deserve an award for getting all the way to the end!

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Not as good as the rest

This book was not as goodas her other vampire chronicles books. But still good. I found myself wondering off in thought a bit where as the past books had me compleatly captivated. The vocals were very frustrating. The accents were annoying. I would have rathered read the book. The man speaking as lestat sounded like gru from dispicable me movies 😂

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Not bad..not great

While I enjoyed the begining I ened up forcing myself to finish. The religious overtones seemed a bit to much and seemed to damage the character development of Lestat we saw in the previous books. Not one of the best in the series I have read / listened to so far

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