Review: The Vampire Lestat

Lestat Le Vampire by Anne Rice
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice’s best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.

Like many books (and show, and pieces of media in general tbh) The Vampire Lestat has interesting premises and the potential to be really neat, but lacks quality in execution.
Lestat is an intriguing character, and I have to admit I find the idea of vampires who think they kill for the greater good interesting—not necessarily correct, but interesting. Rice’s construction of vampire societies shows imagination and at least some wish to make them culturally diverse (but not racially, going by her insistence on making even her ancient Egyptian characters as white as marble).

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Fandom things

(Can't believe I didn't think of using that as a generic post title up until now. ahem.)

Blog surfing can lead you to the strangest things tbh

For example, I have just discovered that one of the members of 1Direction had a baby recently and a significant portion* of the fandom thinks it’s a conspiracy because the other members didn’t offer public congratulations on social media

I have also seen a post implying that this baby (as well as, presumably, the family life of said band member) is a cover for ‘Larry Stylinson’ aka the main ship of the 1Dom

*There are buzzfeed articles covering this nonsense

I’d make a joke about denial if this didn’t feel that gross to just about every person concerned by this ‘theory’ tbh