merciful-death: “Prediction: Lestat is guilty of this and after three hundred pages of him attempting modern slang, he’s finally crowned Pope Lestat.”
LOUIS: What the hell is this? (picks up vial from coffee table) LESTAT: Oh, that. Just something I picked up somewhere. LOUIS: (opens it, sniffs) Is that blood? A mortal’s blood? LESTAT: FUCKING HELL, LOUIS, IT’S A HOLY RELIC, YOU’RE TAINTING IT! LOUIS: I’m tainting it??! Oh no! Now I’m COMPLETELY damned… *rolls eyes*
And Louis looked upon his handiwork, and he saw that it was good.
# in the beginning Louis burned the furnishings and the house # and on the third day Louis burned his creator and the new house # and on the sixth day Louis burned the theatre and its troupe # and on the seventh day Louis rested # and then after that Louis probably burned something else # Louis de Pointe du Lac # Interview with the Vampire # The Vampire Chronicles # vampires # burning
AR has actually admitted herself that she felt her Mayfair/VC crossovers haven’t “worn well” over time. That’s what she said at the booksigning I went to back in Oct of last year.
I haven’t read the werewolves books either, but I read someone’s recap of one of them, and well… let’s just say I’m more of a VC person. I’ve read some of AR’s other books, including the Mayfairs… none of it really captured me like the VC. Siiiigh.
I fear a werewolf/VC crossover. If the ”new seductive, supernatural creatures” were other vampires, why not just write “new seductive vampires” ? Ghosts would be fine, or even unicorns, or mermaids! Just not werewolves, omg. Let Underworld and Twilight mix werewolves and vampires.
My very specific fear is a Louis/werewolf thing. I hope his response would be as follows: