Blood Canticle

Blood Canticle

2003 • 400 pages

Ratings16

Average rating3.4

15

In Blood Canticle Lestat goes back and forth from sounding like a ranting raving teenager to the cultured and demanding Lestat that is known from Interview with the Vampire, to some crazy hormones-raging young adult. Lestat, who has always been enamored with new things, ignore all new technology by refusing to learn how to email. Lestat spends most of the book arguing with Julien's ghost for some reason that is never really explained, he just appears and he and Lestat melodramatically argue with each other in ridiculously overwrought language for pages on end.
Mona is either flitting with about everything that moves, or crying at the drop of a hat, baiting Lestat, and wearing odd slutty clothes that belonged to Quinn's Aunt Queen.
The first half of the book drags on endlessly, hardly making any progress forward with any semblance to plot. The plot contrivances used to get Mona, Quinn, and Lestat to where they will find the fate of the Taltos are numerous, unbelievable, and far too convenient. The whole mess with Taltos and the drug dealers is simply just funny.

March 31, 2024