A review by effingunicorns
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice

slow-paced

2.5

Honestly there's this weird pervasive nihilism that makes me feel like, in light of Rice's subsequent born-again Christian phase, Akasha is the main Anne Rice insert in this book. There's a lot of other stuff to unpack, of course, and frankly Stan's poetry wasn't doing it for me, but the high-density worldbuilding and laundry list of POVs after spending a whole book with Lestat was a nice change, I still broadly enjoy the story of the origin of vampires, and I have to give this book credit for being the one where the gay shit was finally outright stated instead of strongly implied.

I am absolutely not continuing past this point in the series this time around, though. I have better things to do with my time!