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The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice

3 reviews

gayliott's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Anne Rice definitly has some of her more problematic moments in that one. But if you like her writing style and dramatics it's good for that. The horror also peeks in this one for the series so far. Very dark, very dramatic, gore and existencial. I love it but i would strongly advise checking the Trigger Warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Incest, and Abandonment

moreau's review

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

probably my favorite book in the series. very disappointed in the lack of daniel and how shit the one mention of him was, him and armand are the best together. other than that, loved this book.
literally tw everything though its atrocious but i love that its funny

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

I have no desire to read books 4 and 5 in the vampire chronicles, I skipped from Queen of the Damned to this book. So I was disappointed when the plot of Memmoch figured in heavily towards the last 100 or so pages. I liked the backstory of Armand's life as a human but had to mentally age him up in my mind for some scenes to be bearable. I wish Anne Rice could resolve conflict between characters rather than just having characters drift away from each other to find new companions who suddenly love them unconditionally right after meeting them. I didn't give this book a super low rating because I knew ahead of time that the quality of Anne Rice's books drop off after Queen of the Damned do I went into the book with much lower expectations. I love historical fiction and settings and like I said, I really did enjoy the first part of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Child abuse, Cannibalism, Car accident, and Death of parent