Meh

Anne Rice is my favorite author and as such I have read every one of her books penned in her name and in her alias. This was my most anticipated and least favorite. It's been awhile since we spent time with Lestat and his cohorts. It was nice to be with them again but that's all it was, nice. The first part of the book is back story and build up to the present situation. Then a quick crisis in which Lestat is victorious and the crisis is averted. The bad guys character isn't fully drawn out, nor Benji's need to depart this world. All vague. I guess that's my issue with it, it was vague. I was never fully drawn in to the world as I always was in the past. When I finished reading I thought "Well I guess this is it and she was just tying up loose ends." It felt like an anticlimactic end to what was once the most fabulous tale ever told to me. I wish someone would have stopped her from publishing this one the way it is. Maybe someone finished it for her or she has simply lost the passion for it she once had. So I give it three stars because I spent time with old friends. If I was holding Anne rice up to Anne Rice standards I would rate it one star.

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