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A review by romanticallyours
Merrick by Anne Rice
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
I fucking hated this book. I did not expect it to be this bad, I have heard things about it, but this has surpassed every single one of my expectations. I want to throw this book out into the street in the middle of a storm just to see it get absolutely drenched and destroyed, I want to pull this book from shelves in bookstores and burn them on a pyre just so no one would have to suffer just as I did while reading this book.
the only redeeming thing in this is the very sexual verbiage that ms rice used to describe lestat feeding louis his blood, read like the filthiest, sloppiest head given in the vampire fiction world.
update: i still stand by all of my points above, but I still want do add how much I hate david talbot and everything he stands for, because seriously? colonialism? pedophilia, but there is something different about merrick and his feelings for her are wrong, not because she is litterally a prepubesent girl, but because she is a GIRL, because he spares his fucked up pedo-urges for BOYS?????
and I absolutely hate anne rice for shoving David talbot down my fucking throat and trying to replace louis de fucking pointe du goddamn lac with him since queen of the damned. this pretty much sums up my feeling about this book, because the 2 stars are the lowest ranking that I have given any book that I have read.
the only redeeming thing in this is the very sexual verbiage that ms rice used to describe lestat feeding louis his blood, read like the filthiest, sloppiest head given in the vampire fiction world.
update: i still stand by all of my points above, but I still want do add how much I hate david talbot and everything he stands for, because seriously? colonialism? pedophilia, but there is something different about merrick and his feelings for her are wrong, not because she is litterally a prepubesent girl, but because she is a GIRL, because he spares his fucked up pedo-urges for BOYS?????
and I absolutely hate anne rice for shoving David talbot down my fucking throat and trying to replace louis de fucking pointe du goddamn lac with him since queen of the damned. this pretty much sums up my feeling about this book, because the 2 stars are the lowest ranking that I have given any book that I have read.