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The Vampire Lestat - Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2
Author: Anne Rice

Returning to the hypnotic world she so brilliantly created in Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice demonstrates once again her power to enthrall. With the same richness of drama, atmosphere and incident, she tells the fantastic story of the vampire Lestat, whom we first perceived as the seductive devil-vampire of Interview with the Vampire and ... more »whom we now follow through the ages as he searches for the origin and meaning of his own dark immortality. And who, more and more, engages our sympathy until he stands revealed as a questing romantic, a vampire-hero with his own strange and passionate courage and morality.

As the novel opens, Lestat, having risen from the earth after a fifty-five years' sleep, and infatuated with the modern world, presents himself in all his vampire brilliance as a rock star, a superstar, a seducer of millions. And, in this blaze of adulation, daring to break the vampire oath of silence, he determines to tell his story, to rouse the generations of the living dead from their slumbers and to penetrate the riddle of his own existence.

As he speaks we are plunged back into eighteenth-century France, into the castle where we meet the young Lestat: child of impoverished aristocrats, heroic hunter of wolves, at odds with his tyrannical father, running away to join a traveling troupe of actors. We see him in the licentious Paris of the day, first apprentice at a boulevard theater, then its most celebrated actor, idolized, adored by many and--night after night--watched by one . . . until, in a sleep filled with dreams of the wolves he killed as a boy, he is shocked awake by a dark figure and suddenly, horribly, eternally joined to the unholy brotherhood.

We follow Lestat as he searches for others like him--in churches and brothels, in gambling houses, huts and palaces--sometimes joined by the vampire-angel Gabrielle, who is bound to him both by blood and by passion; sometimes traveling with his adored Nicolas, the violinist whose music and beauty are equally transcendent. We follow Lestat as he travels from the snowcapped mountains of the Auvergne and the primeval forest of ancient Gaul to Sicily, Istanbul, Venice and Cairo, searching for his origins, sometimes finding clues to the birth of the vampire race, knowing always that the central truth eludes him.

But all the while, throughout his travels, through many lands and many times, Lestat has made enemies among his brethren--vampires who are in terror of his questions, who fear he will disturb the uneasy balance in which they exist with the mortal world, and who suspect in him a desire to rule. And when, in the caves below a craggy Greek island, in a sanctuary whose walls are covered with gold-flecked murals, the very first of the living dead awake, the truth at the heart of his quest is at last revealed. Ancient forces held immobile through the ages are irreversibly set in motion, and as the novel rushes to its stunning climax, Lestat's vampire foes converge in pursuit of him on the demonic freeways of the twentieth century.

ISBN-13: 9780833563521
ISBN-10: 0833563521
Publication Date: 10/1999
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Currently 4/5 Stars.

4 stars, based on 56 ratings

Publisher: Rebound by Sagebrush
Book Type: School Library Binding
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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Jennifer P. (pashtastic) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 4/30/2007

Helpful Score: 6

Outstanding. One of my favorite books -- terrifying and sensual. Lestat is both hard to like and irresistible. I think this is Rice at her finest.

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Tina B. (gpfiregirl) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 9/30/2008 + 54 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

I was instantly an Interview With the Vampire fan, so it was a given I would read this book. The first book makes you hate Lestat. This one will make you fall in love with him, even if you're digging your heels in to keep from it. Another classic from this fantastic writer.

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Colann C. (Colann) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 11/24/2007 + 29 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 6

Amazing story telling. After reading Interview with a Vampire, I could not stand Lestat. After reading this book, I fell in love with him.

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Jennifer L. (JennL) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 12/29/2006 + 70 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

This reader found it a little difficult to go from the deceiving spiteful Lestat in Interview to the glorious rockstar in this book. Overall the first book in the Chronicles was much better.

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Glenda J. reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 1/15/2007 + 12 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

Nice, tight read. Sexy and intriguing mind candy.

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Joan W. (justreadingabook) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 3/20/2013 + 1726 more book reviews

One of my all time favorite books, love the way she writes, the descriptions of the south. You really get a solid vivid image of where and when the story is taking place. Excellent characters and details about them. Story moves along well and you can't wait to start the next one.

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Erica B. reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 6/24/2011 + 6 more book reviews

This book was slow in a few parts but held my interest overall

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Mari D. (luv2cnewthings) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 2/7/2011 + 55 more book reviews

Well, you'd have to love Lestate to love the book! Similar to many of Anne Rice's characters - sometimes the fiend once had a heart too. No, not necesserily a love interest. Dreams, hopes and a way out...

If you want a better understanding of what made Lestat de Lioncourt a rockstar of a vampire, please read the book.

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Karen B. (SciFiFan) - , reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 10/3/2010 + 69 more book reviews

Great series! Anne Rice was the originator of the Vampire craze that has swept the book world in Urban Fantasy...but with a literary flair. If you want your vampires with a little more oomph to them along with great writing, then these books are for you!

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Sara W. (ladyofavalon) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 4/14/2009 + 88 more book reviews

I just re-read this one, and I forgot how much i enjoyed Rice's writing style. She creates characters through lots of dialogue and personal exchanges, but it creates the Brat Prince Lestat SO well, i couldn't help but fall for the book in its entirety.

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Patrice H. reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 10/30/2006 + 10 more book reviews

I really enjoy this book. Could not put it down

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Colleen J. (shukween) reviewed The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Bk 2) on 2/16/2010 + 118 more book reviews

The second title in Rice's classic and elegant take on those who drink the blood, this novel is a worthy prequel to Interview with the Vampire. It ably answers many of the questions raised in IWTV, and sets the stage for the third and final novel of the trilogy, The Vampire Armand. Ann Rice's style is easy to read, her details hang together and leave the reader satisfied that he has gotten a complete recitation of the story. Quite a satisfying read.

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