The first being Interview with a Vampire. Now reading this was very interesting because I've watched the movie as many of you have, I'm sure. Now while reading it I notice the small (and not so small changes) made in plot between the two.......for those of you that have neither read the book nor watched the move I'll give a quick over view......This novel follows Louis de Point du Lac as he tells his story to David, a reporter. Now early on in the story Louis is changed into a vampire by Lestat and they continue to live a normal life (all be it a tortured one for the novels main character as he still seems to live under the rule of morality and to all intents has a soul). Until sometime when Louis wants to leave Lestat. Enter Claudia, Lestat's way of keeping Louis around until the fateful day that Louis and Claudia escape together in search of other like themselves. Finally settling in Paris they are to find their first sign of other vampires at the Theatre de Vampires. And this story starts to unwind as Claudia is put to death with her new fledgling mother (made for her by Louis). Louis takes his revenge on the theater and leaves with Armand (the man who ran the theater) to travel for years before returning to New Orleans where it all started to see Lestat. And that leads up to his story being told to the reporter. A story that falls on dead ears............
The second book is The Vampire Lestat, now a rock star it is his self titled autobiography. It follows a younger Lestat de Lioncourt from being the son of a lower nobility to him running away to live in Paris with a childhood friend to be an actor. Where a vampire seeks him out to be made into what he is. To make a child to follow him before throwing himself onto the fire. Lestat finds he has inherited the tower as well as a large sum of money which he uses to make life comfortable for those he loves. I'm gonna rather shorten the amount of information that was in that book down but here is what is important......he makes his mother and friend into vampires to keep him company. And once they are gone he wanders alone until the day his friend dies. He buries himself in the earth at the time till one of the old ones comes to get him. Marius comes to get him and introduces him to The Ones Who Must Be Kept. And tell him all his secrets making him swear never to tell anyone and telling him to live a normal life with his dad in New Orleans. Where him, Louis and Claudia live for well over 70 years. Then the tragedies happen and he goes into the earth again to rise in the 80's. He becomes a rock star and author to tell all the stories of vampires to human kind. To cause a war. And it all ends right after his rock show.......
The last book in this series is The Queen of the Damned. This one is a lot harder to explain. Akasha one of Those Who Must Be Kept wakes finally to the world. The first part is a bunch of stories from different vampires and humans about vampires being burnt to death without being touched and all the coven houses going down. Once you get to it not being a bunch of different points of view there are really only two. When you are with Lestat as he and Akasha demolish all the men in small cities for Akasha's dream. Or with the group of those vampires that Lestat loves or that are too strong to be easily destroyed where you learn the beginnings of Akasha and the story of the twins. It all ends in them being well alive and Akasha being very much dead. But its an interesting journey.
Now while I know that in itself was a lot to read I have a little more to say about this series. Anne Rice gives us many new ideas to think of about the vampire when it comes to the differences between them and Dracula, or the average vampire. Many new powers and ideas.......and while the first book is an easy read the second two are rather longer and a little harder to read. Might just of been the type on mine but I felt like we were trying to crunch two books in one with each.......But I would recommend that anyone that is interested should read them given that they have read her stuff before and know what they are getting themselves into.....
Well as always lovelies thanx for reading.....
PS as a side note....in her recent relapse into religion Anne Rice now states that she did not write these books lol
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