Oh damn! I have to go correct my post, then. I haven’t finished my slow and painful read of Prince Lestat, so I’m not sure whether they actually do kiss, I thought that was a quote I hadn’t gotten to, yet.
Thanks for correcting me!
(Louis below is all flustered bc HE DID NOT KISS LESTAT ON THE MOUTH HOW DARE WE IMPLY SUCH)
I’m reading it, even knowing spoilers, bc I’m searching for glimmers of OUR Lestat, the one we know and love, I’m searching for little gems of moments that are true to the characters, I’m searching for scenes that could be corrected with fanfic/fanart… there may be little bits that are salvagable…
Even though I dispute it being MY headcanon, I’m invested in the characters enough that I am intrigued by the crackiness that their author has conjured up for them. Jump the shark/couch? This book has jumped the Empire State Building.
i-want-my-iwtv: YES they smooched in the new book.
EDIT: CORRECTION: That quote was from Tale of the Body Thief. But you know those two idiots kissed in Prince Lestat, whether explicitly written or not, bc of reasons.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. NOTHING TO ADD OR CORRECT HERE.
Yeah I know that feel, Anon… at the booksigning, AR said that this book is meant to also serve as a stand-alone for ppl who are just starting the series. Hence the constant talk about relationships and the handy glossary and index of characters and so on and so forth but still….
I would NOT recc PL to anyone as the start of the series bc it has such a very warped view of EVERYTHING. For one thing, Lestat actually writes:
“So much of what I thought about us, our minds, our souls, our moral evolution or devolution, was just wrong in the books I wrote.”
NO. He was NOT wrong about ALOT of that stuff. The Lestat of Prince Lestat, so far, is way more wrong about so very much.
Well he does like to go to coffeehouses…
UGH I’ve seen that before, too. SO RUDE.
I haven’t had much chance to read it myself, but from what I’ve heard/read, YES. It’s a Frankenstein-monster-esque collection of the worst fanfic ideas you can imagine. It seems like some of the ideas are direct responses to questions AR has gotten over the years, like (NOT the questions of i-want-my-iwtv):
Armand x Louis… well… Armand will always have a thing for Louis, bc well, who doesn’t? The way Armand is now… not sure what Louis sees in him, but perhaps I’ll find out as I read the heartbreaking work of staggering genius that is PL.
It’s short for Mater Glorioso, Latin for “Glorious Mother.” Not sure who or when first coined the term, but it’s the VC fandom’s loving and sarcastic way of paying tribute to the creator of the VC.
There’s a hilarious, though inactive, parody blog for her called anne-christ, the archive is worth checking out!
So I haven’t had much chance to read it yet but from what little I have read… there are little glimmers of the Lestat we all know and love, lines here and there that are in character! So that helps. There may be a few good quotes we can extract from this mess!
Overall, from the spoilers I’ve heard/read, the general feeling I’m getting is that this book is FAR worse than anything I/we could have predicted in terms of being a true Vampire Crackicle.
I-want-my-IWTV 