Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45324 in Books
• Published on: 1991-12-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Synopsis
'Ah, the taste and feel of blood when all passion and greed is sharpened in that one desire!' Lestat: a vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is the truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stagestruck, and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lasciviousness of eighteenth-century Paris to the demonic Egypt of prehistory; from fin-de-siecle New Orleans to the frenetic twentieth-century world of rock superstardom - as, pursued by the living and the dead, he searches across time for the secret of his own dark immortality.

Customer Reviews

Good stuff.
The first book in the series doesn't give us the back-story of the evil Lestat. The vampire who made the first novel's narrator.

In this one we finally get to hear it. Lestat and his boyfriend run away to Paris, and Lestat is turned by the ancient Vampire, Magnus; leaving Lestat with more power than a newly-made Vamp should have. The story then progresses through the years as Lestat De Lioncourt travels Europe exploring and searches out the mythical Vampire Marius.

The tale is "told" by Lestat, and when we get back to the present day he is a rock-star, trying to cause as much trouble as possible by blaring the truth about Vampires out into the crowd and across the air-waves. All this gets him into big-trouble, and that story is the basis of the next book in the series - The Queen of the Damned, which I have just started.

This one, though, is definitely worth the read

Disappointing
"The Vampire Lestat" tells to story of Lestat in modern times as a rockstar. A good premise for a book, but unfortunately Anne Rice dwells too much on his past history to the point that you lose interest. Anne Rice's writing style is simply not very good, it lacks eloquent prose and adequate descriptions. Her tone is also very dull and monotonous to the point of banality.

The "Vampire Chronicles" is going nowhere and I won't be continuing with the series, as it is trimmed for mass market readers.

Lestat, but not as you knew him...
What a turnaround this was. Lestat was a hollow and heartless character in the first book. This book turns all that around and you see why he behaves like he does with Louis and his links to Europe. Even better than the first book!