Hello! So, I’m currently reading The Vampire Armand and I’ve read some articles that put Prince Lestat next to it on the TVC reading order. Do u think I can read PL after TVA or would it be better to read it after BC, following the publishing order?

Hello to you! PL is meant as a branching-off of canon… so there are plot points and characters in BC that don’t exist in PL. PL is like an AU, if things had gone in a different direction after MtD.

If you really want to read PL, go ahead, right after TVA!

BUT: PL is not my favorite VC… and there will be characters in the story that you won’t be familiar with. PL tries to give some background on them, but it feels more like telling than showing :- You’ll probably have a richer, more layered understanding of them if you read the books that follow TVA first. 

That’s alot of books to deal with, so if I had to make you read just one, at least read Blood and Gold before PL. 

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