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Dec 17, 2009

Darcie rated it:

This was the book that pretty much killed my desire to read anything more by Rice. Only 3 books into the Chronicles and I was already weary of her style. As it was, the book was so dull that it took me ages to finish it.

I despised a great deal of the new characters and their stories, but as usual, I enjoyed the history (particularly Egypt) where certain stories took place. I could not stand the inclusion of the whole Talamasca thing and found myself rolling my eyes whenever that mes More...

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Mar 31, 2010

Kelly rated it:

I think she takes on too much in this one. That, and I hate the character of Akasha and what she does to Lestat's character in this novel. I get that it needed to be done on some level, and there are some beautiful scenes along the way as he searches for her. The idea of her does great things, the reality of her sucks in the novel. Which is obviously a statement Anne Rice was making, I just didn't like where it took the novel. The scene of her awakening and the violin playing of the "brat p More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Nicola rated it:

I kept waiting for it to get interesting but it never did. It got stupider and stupider until I thought my brains were leaking out. If I were on a desert island with nothing to read but this book, I would scratch out old 80's pop lyrics with a twig in the sand before trying to read this dreck again.

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Dec 16, 2009

patxi rated it:

Tercera parte de las Crónicas Vampíricas. Agotada totalmente la creatividad, se suman vampiros y vísceras hasta llenar un montón de páginas innecesarias. Superflua.

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Jan 12, 2012

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Aug 10, 2008

Beckie rated it:

This was the best one of them all. It fills in all the holes and makes for a fascinating read. The only character who didn't seem to fit in with the story was the Baby character who killed her mother and father. The only thing I could figure out was that she gave us Anne Rice's ideas of the afterlife. That you just go up into a wonderful loving place with all the people in your life even if you were a horrible person. The rest was sheer creativeness. That a vampire could be so ancient and More...

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Dec 07, 2008

Danielle rated it:

Of all of the vampire chronicles this is by far my favorite. If you have seen the movie and were not impressed. It's ok because neither was I. The movie is nothing like the book in any way. The book goes into detail and answers a lot questions. Goes into detail of the family tree and tells you how Akasha and Enkil became to be. I love every single part of this book and it really was a page turner for me. I love everything from the twins, to Armand and Daniel. Everything! All of these characters More...

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Nov 04, 2011

Debra rated it:

After listening to The Vampire Lestat, which I enjoyed well enough, I couldn't very well stop there. I needed to know what happened to Lestat after his concert. So of course I picked up Queen of the Damned immediately after finishing that one.
My god, there were a lot of characters in this novel. Thank god for a good narrator of this audiobook (the wonderful Simon Vance). He helped keep up with all the various characters with an impressive array of voices.
The story itself was interes More...

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May 26, 2011

Heather rated it:

I liked it well enough.

There was a lot of skipping around. There was a lot of poetry in the beginnings of chapters written by "Stan Rice" who I assume is Anne's husband? I just skipped over all of that.

There was a lot in the book that I thought was superfluous. Such as the story of Baby Jenks. It was merely an obstacle in my path to finding out about Akasha and the truth to the beginnings of all of Anne Rice's vampires.

I liked the stories that invo More...

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Sep 24, 2009

Shelbielou rated it:

In this book you go on an adventure with the vampire Lestat, while he is lost in finding the meaning of immortality. He wakes from a 200 year sleep to find the world he knew so much more develop from what it was. He finds a liking to rock music and from it creates the biggest rock band in history. in the music he is open about being a vampire, this goes against all codes from being a vampire and angers all others. This created a whole new meaning of Lestats life, and opens doors for the amazing More...

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Jul 28, 2011

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Sep 17, 2009

Lisa rated it:

...or why Lestat should have been careful what he'd wished for.

Another excellent book in the series, the world of the vampires is expanded once again (and then significantly decreased - spoiler!), and the mythology traced back into ancient history. I love how Rice mixes the historical and fantastical, and the story of how vampires were created gave me oodles of pleasure. The Queen is a fantastic character, and the mix of her absolute power along with her, at times, all too human thou More...

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Jan 14, 2011

Austin rated it:

"The Queen of the Damned" is the third book in Anne Rice's vampire chronicles. Out of the three I read this was probably my least favorite. Don't get me wrong. It's not a bad book. It's just not as good as the previous two books.

The story starts off where the last book (The Vampire Lestat) ends. I find Rice's books to be the best when they are narrated from the first person. Much of this book isn't done in first person. The story jumps around from character to characte More...

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Aug 04, 2011

Daniel rated it:

Much better then "Interview With the Vampire" This combined with "The Vampire Lestat" forms the best part of the Vampire Chronicles series and details the core mythos of Anne Rice’s vampires. In this book unlike the others in this series there are several narrators all with very interesting view points who each tell their own part of the story until the plot lines converge. If you intend to read any of Anne Rice’s Vampire novels (except possibly "Interview") make More...

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Jan 23, 2010

Chipper rated it:

After thoroughly enjoying Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire and finding her follow-up The Vampire Lestat absolutely magical, I anxiously began Queen of the Damned. While the two former books subtly introduced and explored - through the lives and first-person storytelling of Louis Point du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt - ideas that I found fascinating, e.g., the pain and loneliness of immortality, Queen of the Damned failed, for me, to ignite the same types of wonder and internalized question More...

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Dec 17, 2011

Lauren rated it:

The Queen of the Damned is strikingly different in both form and substance from the first two books of The Vampire Chronicles. Several new characters are introduced, a number of truly old vampires we have only heard of up until now become part of the action, and the story is woven together into a mosaic much wider in scope from what has come before. This is essentially Lestat's book, but he is not really the focus of the tale; while he narrates his own role in events, much of the book is written More...

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Aug 09, 2011

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This is my favorite Anne Rice book! Akasha, the goddess- my goddess! :) How can you not love a vampire queen gone mad and taken to killing all the men in the world??... ah yes save for one the brat prince! Sounds like a great plan to me! That was left out of the movie! Among many many other things! Speaking of the movie, although I thought it was a pretty good vampire flick and Aaliyah is perfect for Akasha, besides the names, there wasn't much resemblance to the book. I was disappointed w More...

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Feb 01, 2012

Stefan rated it:

When I started this book, I really had problems getting into it. I think that the problem for me was that it skipped around quite a bit between characters in the beginning and tried to introduce several new ones only to kill off some of them immediatly. In essence, I guess it took me out of my comfort zone and I wasn't too sure that I liked it.

But, perseverance paid off and after 150 pages or so, I found myself drawn deeply into this robust story. The book is well written, taking us be More...

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Aug 22, 2011

M.J. rated it:

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Dec 05, 2011

Anna rated it:

To this day still my favorite Vampire fiction book. I may be biased as the Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles novels were my introduction the genre. But it has stood the test of time for me. First off this is a long book, but I still couldn't put it down, despite my usual dislike of novels over about 200-300 pages. It just covers so much ground in Vampire Mythos and I think it was well worth the length. Anne Rice's crowning achievement in my estimation, it really gave life to the vampire fiction genre More...

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Nov 28, 2009

pinknantucket rated it:

I’m always a bit suspicious of books that contain the word “frisson”. It turned up relatively early in this book, but at least I didn’t notice a repeat offence. This book all seemed a bit silly at first, but I got sucked in (Ha!) by all those eternally youthful beautifully beautiful dark and mysterious and sexy vampires. Really, it did start to bother me after a while that they were all so attractive. Rice even muses, through the voice of her hero vampire Lestat, are there any ugly vampires? Wel More...

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Nov 26, 2010

Ellie rated it:

I've missed the second book in this series, I noticed after I had bought this one, but I figured I would be able to read it nonetheless. And I was able to do so which was nice. Anne Rice's writing style is very interesting and it draws my attention for sure. It's a bit different from the first one in it's places, due to the change of PoV's throughout the book.

The story is a very complicated but well executed and you get to learn pieces here and there until the final reveal. The story a More...

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Dec 30, 2009

Melissa rated it:

The first half of this book was amazing bcz Rice introduced so many ancient vampires and how over thousands of years the powers they had come to have. The ancient vampires had the ability to merely look at another vampire and cause the blood inside of them to ignite engulfing their whole being. They could also fly over great distances, like an ocean or several countries. I was most intrigued by the vampire Kayman, he was the 3rd vampire ever created, 6000 yrs ago, and his knowledge and gifting w More...

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Aug 11, 2011

Jason rated it:

This is pretty much an extension of The Vampire Lestat in several ways. As a result I ranked it the same. It is finishing the second book and almost like a subseries within the series. We get to learn about the Queen and King which is an integral aspect of the series and a huge set up for Blood and Gold when Marius tells his story. And again, Lestat is rebelling like he was in the last book. But he is becoming powerful and some elements of Rice's world of vampires that are pretty neat come More...

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Sep 22, 2011

Jennifer rated it:

Honestly, I didn't want to read Queen after having seen (and fortunately forgotten) the movie years ago. But dammit if Anne Rice can't use some type of literary voodoo to pull me in. This has happened several times with her books: I read one and swear I won't read the next one. Then, the next one sits on the book shelf, beckoning me to indulge in its sensual story. After I crack the cover, I can't put it down.
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Jul 04, 2010

Debbie rated it:

I really enjoyed the Vampire Lestat in book 2 and couldnt wait to read more but I think this book went down too many avenues and left me confused. I found there were too may charactors to keep track on. The story of the red haired twins and how the first vampire was created 6000 years ago in Eygpt is the backbone of this book. You learn how the mother and father got their powers and what they did to get them. This was very interesting and a must read. The big question from book 2 is during the More...

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Mar 31, 2010

Sophie rated it:

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Feb 19, 2010

Kate rated it:

I definitely enjoyed this one! I like how things are pared down to the core "coven" now all of those other vampires were distracting. Well done Akasha! I really liked Khayman as a character. I guess I like tortured souls who do horrible things and then atone for their sins. The Twins were an interesting storyline and i found myself wishing the chapters about Akasha and Lestat would end so I could read more on the story of the twins. Overall I felt bad for Akasha, she seemed to be More...

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Apr 04, 2011

Connor rated it:

SPOILER ALERT.

I loved this book, a lot actually. Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat were also good, but in my opinion this one was the best of the three. I loved the twist on the end, the fact that Akasha died and none of the others died. The way Anne Rice set the Funeral Feast as a foreshadowing of what was to happen with Akasha. I also liked the story of the twins, I half wanted to know more. I wouldn't mind reading a book by Anne Rice of the twins lives or more detail More...

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Sep 02, 2011

Alberto rated it:

I loved this book. It did prove challenging for me to read because their was so many sub plots and the establishing of them through certain characters made it a bit labryinth like as the author tried to tie all the sub plots in to one complete mosaic. But she did and It was worth the confusion to see that after all the twists and turns the book took you on a journey through time and over the world. I loved it! I loved that Maharet and her twin sister Mekare had red hair and yet lived in The Vall More...

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