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Vittorio, the Vampire by Anne Rice

audiobebop's review against another edition

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2.0

What a boring individual. Vittorio has to be my least favorite vampire. I'm more interested in Ursula's story.

nicolemello's review against another edition

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

2.5

oh! interesting! this did not really keep my attention, to be honest. anne took a total left turn here and abandoned the larger story going on for one that had nothing to do with the characters she's introduced. there are some elements i enjoyed, but this largely just was not for me i think. lots of angels and souls and vittorio, man, you just gotta relax.

asiafr27's review

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medium-paced

3.5

przela71's review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.25

danakm's review

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2.75

Was okay. Not groundbreaking but entertained me enough

kiisa's review against another edition

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

4.0

feanors's review

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

2.5

tamaraguillenr's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

Esta es de las últimas novelas de Anna Rice antes de abandonar a sus vampiros durante más de una década tras su conversión al cristianismo. Teniendo esto en cuenta, se aprecia ese toque de despedida en algunas de sus páginas, presentando un personaje atormentado no por su inmortalidad como hemos visto en personajes anteriores, sino por sus conversión al vampirismo, considerando demonios a esos seres y su nueva naturaleza un pecado, más que una condición más allá de la humana. La novela provoca una sensación agridulce teniendo en cuenta todo esto.
Con esto y con la aparición de los ángeles en una especie de redención, se denota el camino que tomaría la autora en sus posteriores obras. 
Los primeros dos capítulos han sido algo innecesarios, pudiendo haberse unido en uno solo, lo mismo sucede con dos de los últimos, con la aparición de los ángeles cuáles «deus ex machina» que reduce un poco las expectativas en cuando al resto de la obra. El romance flaquea mucho en un inicio un tanto forzado y, a lo largo de la trama, el personaje misterioso de Ursula y su encantadora personalidad pierden la esencia progresivamente.
Tenía potencial, no lo ha usado del todo, pero tampoco lo ha perdido. Está en un camino intermedio entre sus vampiros tradicionales, alejados de la religión (no temen a los crucifijos, por ejemplo) y el salto de la autora a su siguiente etapa. La ambientación toda una delicia gótica.

whimsicalmeerkat's review against another edition

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2.0

I honestly don't remember much about it, which means I didn't hate it but I also didn't really like it much.

cecilyroseceillam's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The first half of vittorio is amazing and extremely engaging, the descriptions of Italy are beautiful once again and the way the art is described along with the clothes and architecture is beautiful too. The mystery of the red court was fun and reminded me a lot of the children of darkness which we saw in the previous books. And then this weird pacing issue comes in where the last half of the book feels like unfinished drafts from the vampire armand and Memnoch the devil, and it’s very disorienting. We’re suddenly on a quest with angels to kill vampires when it’s written like vittorio is going to be turned into one. And then we go back to how it was paced and written in the first half, and it feels like you’re reading another book at the same time. The writing is still good but the pacing was pretty bad here and not much really sense, overall this book really felt like a bunch of drafts from her other books that she just threw into one book and it really feels like she was meeting a publishing deadline with this book. The only other interesting thing that hooked me was the ancient Italian and Roman politics which she clearly knew a lot about and it very much reminded me of Dante’s work. 

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