AR wrote Prince Lestat almost as a stand-alone book and lots of ppl seem to be coming into the fandom from that book without reading IWTV even… which is fine, and more power to them!

But IDK, I always tell ppl that they’ll get a lot more out of the series if you read the Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned first, bc her characters and storytelling were so strong and passionate in those books in a way that many ppl feel that Prince Lestat lacked.

Look I don’t like all of the books but I’ve read them all in order, partly bc I didn’t have a choice when I was younger and had to wait for them one-by-one, but also bc that’s the order in which AR explored the stories herself.