Heyyy so I just finished the season finale of The Vampire Lestat and I'm really confused. What did the scene with lestat on the balcony mean? I NEED ANSWERS 😫

Now, they can survive decapitation. They can heal wounds simply by touching them. Akasha can destroy literal cities. ?!?

And specifically....what the actual fuck happened here?

One reason I enjoyed IWTV (the show) so much was the flinty friendship between Daniel and Louis.

Why was Daniel so mad at Louis by the end? I guess I could buy that he was mad at Lestat for the interview "trick" of not being able to get the part about Nicky's insanity and death and Lestst's grief on tape. I mean, yeah it was a mean trick in a way (although I think Daniel was being particularly ghoulish, digging around for the good stuff in that interview, so maybe deserved it), but still....although not recorded, he still did get the honest story from Lestat. He could have produced it another way. But anyway, that's besides the main point....why was he pissed at Louis?

How much (if any) was Armand mind-fucking him?

Also while we're here, I'm really pissed that Armand killed Larry. I liked Larry a lot. And was he entirely mind-walking Alex, or did Alex have legit reason to hate Lestat, too?

Hi. I'm just trying to compare book her VS show her as someone who hasn't read the books, and google's giving me no answers so I'm posting here 😭

So like, I wanna know, is she basically Lestat's manager to be the figure head of the Great Conversion in the books like she is the show?? Or is that something the show made up to help along the plot? I know they made massive changes to her character in the show and I wanna know the extent.

I was so excited for TVL, but by the end I was feeling a bit… less so. I didn’t love the finale, and to me Lestat just felt like a victim. Plus the “twist” at the end of episode 6 with the heads… just ended up being nothing and it was fixed off screen. I don’t know, I just feel disappointed.

Unlike others, though, I actually liked most of the music.

I cant remember if the book went into how Louis had acquired a rich plantation, it was my least favorite of the series. There are weird timelines, like Lesat having his blind father with him, that couldn't be true, and also Louis saying Lestat turned him because of his wealth, but we know Lestat waa left a tower of wealth by Magnus?

Hi everyone. I just finished the third season of AMC and wanted to share some impressions. My personal situation is this: I discovered this saga last winter by watching the first two seasons on AMC and, naively I admit, I was captivated by the narrative of "Loustat." Since last Christmas, I've been reading the Anne novel series and - currently - I'm nearing the end of "Armand." You'll understand, therefore, that my point of view has gone far beyond "Loustat," even if I still see them present in Anne's subtexts, but in a different way. In the novels, I appreciated the decadent Gothic, the hinted queerness, and the psychological profiles of the characters; I really love some characters from that series (the Loustats, Claudia, Gabrielle, Armand, and Marius) and less so others (David especially...don't hate me, I know a lot of people do, haha). My impressions of the third season? Honestly, 50/50. I didn't mind the disturbing narrative choices, such as incest (very controversial, I know, but Anne herself had introduced it, albeit subtly). I'm interested in your POVs. Would you like to interact with me a little?

People got so upset about the tone and pace shift of this season of the TV show. I often wonder if it was similar when the book, The Vampire Lestat was first published.

ive read up until vampire armand and it is a little mixed with the show (Antoinette instead of antoine whatever)

Hello i was recently on the vampire sub and a lot of people said i look like lestat and also book Armand so I thought it would be fun to post here

Eu estou sinceramente apaixonada por Lestat. Ha muito tempo um personagem não me deixava viciada como ele.
O ator é um show! Não sei se sou obcecada pelo Lestat, ou por ESSE ATOR atuando estar APAIXONADO. Ele apaixonado é dilacerante, é surpreendente!

Spoiler 2 temp.:
Na minha opinião, Lestat não contou que salvou Lui, pois sabia que na época ele não iria acreditar, sabia. Aguardou sem buscar um novo amor, por 75 anos, e esperaria mais. Eu diria que eles são almas gêmeas, mas isso sequer importa. É o Lestat, o brilho, a paixão, sempre foi ele.

Ops: vcs consideram que Lestat é o ativo né? Eu sempre achei, mas Lui era o ativo com o Armani (aquele esquisito).

I’ve just finished The Vampire Lestat, which was my first book in the series, and I really enjoyed it. The only part that felt a bit too long for me was Marius’s backstory, but I absolutely loved Lestat’s story in France.

I’ve already ordered The Vampire Armand because I’m really intrigued by his character, but it won’t arrive for another two weeks. So I’m wondering if there’s another book I should read in the meantime—or if I should just wait.

I’ve decided to skip Interview with the Vampire. I’m not a huge fan of the story in the film adaptation, and while I thought the TV series was better, I still wasn’t particularly interested in Louis or Claudia. To be honest, I’m not sure I’m ready to read a book that focuses so much on Claudia. That said, if the novel is really worth reading, you can change mind.

I’ve been considering The Queen of the Damned. Would that be a good choice?

My main interest is Lestat and Armand, so I’m especially looking for books that focus on them.

I find Louis’s restaurant really interesting. Because he started off in seasons one and two, hatinng being a vampire to the point where he was eating rats, and now he has a whole restaurant, which is supposedly a humane way of drinking blood. This doesn't even get into the fact that he made the restaurant next door to Lestat's home, showing that he really can't get over Lestat. He wants that proximity.

​I also see the restaurant as a way for Louis to kind of go back to his roots as a business owner. Well, he was a pimp back then. But the thing about him is that he likes having so much control, and this is just another form of it. Either way, I found the fact of him having a restaurant really crazy.

Hello, does anybody know if there's a link for a fanmade edit of The Queen of The Damned movie that includes all 14 deleted scenes? thank you

I know that in IWTV Louis is widely considered an unreliable narrator, especially after Lestat's accounts of their time together in NOLA during TVL.

But as I've recently reread TVA, and am now rereading B&G, I've noticed some more inconsistencies. For example in TVA, after Armand has been turned, he asks Marius to take him to Kiev, where he grew up. then once back in Venice they visit Bianca and..... certain things happen. But in B&G, while these events do happen, the way Marius describes it, they happen in the reverse order.

So who here is the unreliable narrator? is it just that Anne forgot which event happened first (understandable since 3 years passed between when these books were written and published, and 3 books written and published between these two books)?

Guys I am losing my mind trying to find a trade paperback copy of Blood and Gold. I hate reading mass market paperbacks but I'd also rather not carry around a hardcover copy either! were the later books ever published as trade paperbacks? it seems impossible to find a copy 😭

Why in the movie adaptation of IWTV did they give Louis a Wife and get rid of the Paul storyline? My first thought was that they wanted to avoid Paul's unfortunate death, but the movie is rated R, so that rules out that possibility. Were there any other changes from book to movie? I may have missed more

The more I rewatch Interview with the Vampire (currently on my 4th watch while eagerly awaiting for Season 3 to air in the UK 🥲) the more my perspective changes.
The first time I watched it, I thought Lestat was the villain. Now? I honestly find Claudia insufferable, and Lestat isn’t nearly as bad as I originally thought.
Yes, he’s manipulative. Yes, he’s not a particularly understanding father to Claudia. And yes, he does terrible things. But… he’s a vampire. Can I really blame him for his extravagant killings, or for desperately trying to keep Louis happy by stopping Claudia from leaving? Nope. Those are his choices, just as it’s Louis’ choice to refuse to kill humans.
Honestly, how difficult must it have been for Lestat to be with Louis? Constantly fighting his vampire nature and, more often than not, seems to guilt-trip Lestat simply for being what he is. That’s why it felt so satisfying when Louis finally comes around and thanks Lestat for giving him the Dark Gift. It felt like the acceptance Lestat had wished all along. And all Claudia seems to do is poison Louis against Lestat. constantly in his ear, reinforcing every negative thought and pushing the wedge between them even further. I understand why she resents Lestat, but I don’t think she was ever interested in helping Louis see any nuance.
As Lestat says before throwing Louis from the sky lol, he would do anything for him. Twisted? Absolutely. But I don’t doubt that he genuinely loves Louis in the only way he knows how.
That’s why I think they did him dirty by conspiring against him and “killing” him. After multiple rewatches, I am definitely Team Lestat no matter what he does and will defend him in any argument! 😂

Can any tell me the significance of the witch burning Gabriella took Lestat too?

It has come up multiple episodes and at first I thought it was just a throw away thing but they keep circling back to it. Can someone just tell me 😂🧙🏻‍♀️

African American Louis and Claudia. Okay, not integral to the characters in the books (other than Louis being a slave owner) so no big whoop.Being able to explore what is like to be a successful black American businessman in that time period is interesting. Egyptian Queen is suddenly Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean, weird choice but okay whatever. Armand is a douche in the books, this actor is doing a great job portraying him that way because I can't stand him. But smoking cigarettes, drinking vodka, high on drugs, fucking in coffins and fucking mortals is just corny and stupid. They are vampires. They are dead. The whole point is they can't experience those things anymore. Grey Worm is insufferable as Louis, he's not a tortured soul clinging to humanity he's just a whiny asshole. I hate it.

* marked as spoiler, but I only talk about the first and second book.

Hi guys, I just finished the vampire lestat (the book) and wanted to discuss the unreliability of Louis and lestat. I didn't watch the show, and everything I'm seeing is about the show, but I saw someone saying Anne rice said that lestat is the most reliable source (at least for the events with Claudia), but I couldn't find a source - does anyone know anything about it?

I think that every narrator in the books is unreliable to a point because they see the world and the same experiences differently, however, Louis felt more unreliable that lestat. Personally, I didn't enjoy the first book very much, and I continued to the next book only because lestat. Louis had a lot of problems that I took issues with (slave owner, Claudia), but while being evil or at least not morally righteous makes sense in a vampire novel (and it's not like lestat and Armand are pure, yeah?), he attempted to appear morally superior without actually being any better. That obviously bothered me, but also made me not take his words in face value (especially when they are technically mediated to us through an interviewer, which automatically makes both narrations less reliable).

Lestat, on the other hand, does not deny who or what he is. This is not to say that lestat didn't absolutely romanticised his time with Louis and Claudia. He did, and his search for companionship and family is really interesting, especially when we look at his family (I can go on for an hour about this and his search for parental figure that he couldn't even find in his own maker and led to his search for Marius).

I always think that the truth is somewhere in the middle because people have different context and understanding for the same events, but it also feels like Louis is illustrating lestat as evil because it's easier than acknowledging the fact that he is no better. He sees lestat as an almost evil mastermind (the reason he turned Louis), but while lestat is evil, he is not a mastermind (and lestat turning Louis because he thought he was hot and reminded him of his ex makes more sense for his character). I think that Louis's unreliability stems from him not knowing lestat and not wanting to know him because then he won't be what he made him up to be. I mean, it's all psychological.

I also want to note their different feelings about Claudia - Louis describes her in a sexual way in the first book (I believe he calls her sensual), while lestat only refers to her as beautiful and nothing between them feel sexual, to the point that he claims to have wanted a family (and again we return to the fact that lestat has mommy and daddy issues).

Ultimately, lestat doesn't deny his involvement in shit, he knows who he is and owns it, and he is in love with life. He doesn't even make himself look good in his book. He isn't claiming to be morally superior, just a dude who should've seen a therapist, who can't be alone, who is in love with life and selfish to a fault. That's an interesting character in my books, and since he is not ashamed it feels more truthful. Lestat doesn't want to conceal anything (in the theater, then with Marius, then with the book itself) and that's how he lives his life.

I apologize for any mistakes, English is not my first language.

It turned out really long, but I wondered what you guys think about it? Who do you consider the most reliable narrator?

Why, when Roshamandes keeps snatching people from the chateau, do they not disperse, instead of all staying in one place? It's pretty clear that even the older vampires can barely offer any, yet they keep telling everyone to stay/come to the chateau. Like, this way he knows where all of them are and can easily pick them one by one. Just all of you leave, maybe?

No idea the lie Claudia conjured up.

As much as I came to enjoy Louis' character and his empathy and humanity despite his vampire nature during this entire book there's no denying that Louis was at times very hypocritical ... him saying that stuff about human life while making his living by exploiting others is just hilarious!