Entertaining Claudia, back before she was too old to desire it. We would build a “set” out of chairs, blankets, and pillows, and would act out all of the famous plays. She and Lestat both endlessly got a kick out of me playing the “damsel in distress” parts, to my dismay. However, her laughter would always make any embarrassment worth it.
okay but modern-day louis and lestat where louis is a total hipster who wears his long hair up in a messy bun and spends his nights in little coffee shops watching his beloved mortals, and lestat is still stuck in his 80s goth rocker phase and blasts the cure and bauhaus on vinyl while louis’s trying to read some poetry
Ah, there are so many. Sometimes though, when he reads, he unconsciously twists a lock of raven hair around his finger and his face becomes perfectly animated with the emotion of whatever he is reading. Sometimes his lips move too, just a little as if he were whispering the words.
Oh and that look he gets on his face when I can just tell he wants comfort but is being too strong willed to take it. His nose wrinkles and gets all screwed up and his lips press together and his brows furrow and he just looks every bit the wounded animal. So precious.
Prince Lestat is supposedly a stand-alone book in the series and can be considered an AU. It’s very cracky and the characterization is inconsistent with the rest of the series.
My short answer is SKIP IT FOR NOW. Read #1-#4, those are SO MUCH BETTER. Then some of the later ones, like The Vampire Armand, Blood and Gold, and Pandora… after all that, you can go back to Prince Lestat and consider it a fanfic AU. Much less painful that way, less VC reputation-tarnishing that way ;]
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