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Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

8 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, and Abortion

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

informative mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Queen of the Damned is not a story that allows the reader to spectate while the characters have adventures - the reader instead stands back and listens to the characters as they discuss histories and current events. In that way, Queen of the Damned is a critically acclaimed info dump.

The story is interesting, but I find the delivery shallow and lazy. It’s consistent with the rest of the Vampire Chronicles - I think I forget in between reads. Anne Rice holds the standard to which vampire books are held (Anne Rice and Bram Stoker) but while the imagination is there, the technique is lacking. If you’re interested in the origin of Rice’s vampires, Queen of the Damned delivers the story like reading a Wikipedia article. But you do get the history of the creatures. So there’s that?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

peggy_racham's review against another edition

5.0

"The past may instruct us. But it won’t save us."

Women's rights and wrongs but has Akasha ever been right?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bolivianrash's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Colonisation

jelliestars's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Rape, Blood, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Incest, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Excrement, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

citrusandwords's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, Rape, Torture, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

lnolen01's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Like other Anne Rice novels, The Queen of the Damned is difficult to rate. It's a collection of perspectives and has multiple narrators. It starts both more than 6000 years before the ending of The Vampire Lestat, a few days before, and the next morning, depending on where you start, and who's talking.

The Queen of the Damned explains the story of Akasha, and how vampires came into being. It also teases and finally tells The Story of the Twins, setting up the climactic scene between Akasha and those who stand against her. It also introduces the Talamasca to the Vampire Chronicles, something that will be important in later books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Cannibalism

Minor: Death of parent