Especially since every POV is so deep and biased that I sometimes don’t even realize something about a character until another points it out. It helped me understand and get to know all of them better. – It was cool getting to see the characters from other perspectives, to see the way other characters saw them. And it’s nice when they actually care about each other, like how Pandora and Santino both cared about Marius enough to trek through the frozen tundra to save him. That makes for interesting connections and interactions among them. I also find it so interesting the way all the vampires are psychically connected. – All the relationships are so complex too. The way they think and feel is so different.
They masquerade as human, but they’re not. – Not only are all the characters so complex, these vampires are so not-human. This book seemed to be mostly backstory about various different vampires and how vampires came into existence. Then things got interesting at the concert. We didn’t even get to the concert until like halfway through. – The book was slow and meandering, and not a lot actually happened. BUT while I didn’t care for some of the POVs (Jesse’s, Pandora’s), I loved others (Daniel’s, Khayman’s), and I did enjoy getting such a well-rounded view of events and getting to know everyone better. – There were a lot of POVs, not all of which seemed necessary. But I’m guessing this is just Anne Rice’s style.
The characters really like to wax lyrical and over-explain things. And in every book so far, at least one character has explained their entire life story out loud to someone else. He even explained how he was going to jump to other characters’ perspectives (though that made more sense when I got to the end). For example, the book started off with Lestat breaking the fourth wall, explaining how he was going to tell us the story of what happened since the ending of the last book. – A lot of the writing choices in this series are strange. Things I Disliked/Things I Didn’t Mind but Others Might Dislike:
I can’t help it! I have so many thoughts! I’m trying to at least divide these up as much as possible so that you all can choose which sections interest you and just read those if you don’t want to read the whole thing 🙂 So, my review is once again… really long.
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