I actually still haven’t finished PL myself, preferring to burrow into fanfic when I have time to sit and read. I should really finish it tho bc I’m about 60% through, and I have allowed myself to be spoiled somewhat (I know that they exist) but I don’t actually know what happens with Vikki and Rosalita Viktor and Rose just yet.
I don’t know why they exist but my GUESS is that alot of that book is AR’s response to questions she’s sick and tired of hearing at Q&A’s over the years.
Among which (these are NOT my opinions):
Why cants the vampires has enjoyable sex? They shoulds be able to has sex bc an asexual relationship is impossible.
WOULDNT IT BE AWESOMESAUCE IF LESTAT HAD A BABY
Lestan is a cool name and you should totes use it again.
I’ll be putting the bulk of this under a ‘Read More’ for spoilers. So HERE IS YOUR MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD, IF YOU ARE SEATED IN THE FIRST FEW ROWS YOU WILL BE SPOILED, ETC. That said, my overall reaction to the book was fairly disappointed. After posting this I will be turning off my anonymous asks because after what happened with the Pandora paper mâchè/decoupage incident I know Anne Rice fans are not to be trusted. I am happy to entertain any polite discussion, and I am posting this to hopefully save other longtime fans who might be on the fence the time and the money. Without further ado here is my summation and reactions to the fuckery that is Prince Lestat. Trigger warning for mentions of rape, abuse, mutilation, and murder.
The ending of this novel is beyond dumb. It makes you wonder how these Vampires even lived to be as old as they are. They decide they need a ruler so they adopt a Vampire monarchy complete with Lestat as ruler based solely on everyone knowing who he is. Mind you, this is the same Vampire who hates rules, the same Vampire who was dumb enough to turn his powerful body over to a human he just met, the same Vampire who turned his body over to a lab ran by Vampires he just met, allowed them to take DNA samples from him and inject him with drugs, and was just suicidal at the beginning of the book and has shown suicidal tendencies in the past. THIS is who every last Vampire is trusting their very existence to, this suicidal hamburger brained moron called Lestat.
I’m not a cosplayer, this was just quick thing to do, because my friend wanted to know “what happened to her ship” in Prince Lestat. So I decided to tell her. Big, big thanks to violcetta made my eyes freakishly blue because of reasons. ❤ They are green, but Lestat with green eyes would be an abomination.
Just to point out: I actually like all three ships.
I’m at Holy Fuck Magnus is Back as a Ghost and Suddenly We Are Supposed to Think That’s Really Cool BC YOU GUYS HE WAS A HEALER TOO Not Just A Major Douchebag! Wow
….also I picture him as John Malkovich bc of that one RPer and now I can’t remember that RPer’s URL argh.
ooc; Ehhh, she just felt very out of place, we got literally no explanation as to of who she was and why Lestat was there (which I guess we might get that in Blood Paradise), and her story read very much like Mary Sue fanfiction I would have read when I was twelve years old on fanfiction.net. But, of course, as I’ve stated before, Lestat himself is a Mary Sue, so I guess I can’t put a whole lot of judgement there.
I think my issue with Rose is just that I don’t see what she actually gave to the story. She seemingly had a major part, yet I feel like if she was subtracted from it all, the story would remain the same. Anne’s guilty of doing this thing where she introduces a bunch of new characters, yet never actually fleshes out any of her previous characters. We got all of this stuff about Rose, and yet we had chapters where Armand, Bianca, and Daniel were all within the same house and didn’t even acknowledge each other’s existence. Hell, Armand was practically not there throughout most of the book. And I would have honestly taken chapters of Bianca explaining what she’s been up to over Rose’s seemingly random story.
But that’s also just my opinion.
Same. I have a problem with throwing in a pointless female character just to have more ladies. Especially when you’re literally adding 6 or 7 people to the cast (or bringing them back from the dead). A lot of the stories were redundant or totally pointless (Killer… Cyril?) but Rose not only felt exactly like a low-rent Mona or weird new Jesse, she never serves any purpose or does anything interesting (this is also true of several of the men, especially Killer.. why Killer? We don’t care. We liked Baby Jenks, not this dick.) We’re supposed to care about her because we’re told Lestat and Louis do, but that’s it. It’s just not enough. If I were her editor, I’d have begged her to cut the Rose stuff for the sake of pacing. There’s no immediate need to pair Vikki up with anyone.
And yes, if she wanted to add more ladies, Gabrielle was a bad ass – give her a chapter. Lestat is her son. We would care way more about her. Or Bianca! She’s seeing Armand for the first time in forever, seeing his fledgling for the first time, etc. etc. So many better options with established characters we already care about.
That said, I get why people might like Rose. If she was a side-story, if she were part of a different book, she has some potential. Like Jesse, a girl raised unknowningly by vampires in some fashion is a cool concept. I just feel like it didn’t fit at all in this book. It needed more explanation and characterization than it got.
I agree with you. Looking back, I liked Rose/her story well enough (though I felt she had too little personality) until she was treated as being irreparably!broken! by the knowledge of vampires – I’m sorry, she lived through all that horrible abuse at the school, but semi-sleeping through Lestat cutting off Rhosh’s hand and arm is the thing that breaks her? As someone once said, puh-leeze, babycakes!
Also, Lestat of all people ought to know after what happened to Nicki that turning someone who’s having a mental breakdown involving vampires is not an automatic solution!
^PREACH
ooc; Can Louis please pick up that garden scythe again and cut down Rose
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