But it's not just the fledglings and other ancients, but the mother of them all: Akasha, Queen of the Damned. Taunting and daring other immortals, he unleashes a growing rage at his arrogrant display and telling secrets.
Acceptance for who and what he is.Īs his music intoxicates the world, Lestat begins a dangerous game when he reveals himself to the human world with his band, Vampire Lestat. It's the age of hard rock bands, moody perceptions of the world and the kind of freedom that Lestat has never experienced but has always yearned: FAME. Lestat has woken up from a self-imposed sleep, to pass the time, to leave behind the emptiness that consumes him and to awaken into a New World. The main message remains as clear and complicated as ever, the agony and ecstasy of being human and what it is to be human. In one sense, Queen of the Damned is the ultimate multigenerational saga.
Mostly, the book spins the complex yarn of Akasha's eerie, brooding brood and her nemeses, the terrifying sisters Maharet and Mekare.
It also boasts God's plenty of absorbing lore that enriches the tale that went before, including the back-story of the boy in Interview with the Vampire and the ancient fellowship of the Talamasca, which snoops on paranormal phenomena. If you felt that the previous books in the series weren't gory and erotic enough, this one should quench your thirst (though it may cause you to omit organ meats from your diet). And she has her eye on handsome Lestat with other ideas as well. She is so peeved about male violence that she might just have to kill most of them. That raucous rock-star vampire Lestat interrupts the 6,000-year slumber of the mama of all bloodsuckers, Akasha, Queen of the Damned.Īkasha was once the queen of the Nile (she has a bit in common with the Egyptian goddess Isis), and it's unwise to rile her now that she's had 60 centuries of practice being undead. Did you ever wonder where all those mischievous vampires roaming the globe in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles came from? In this, the third book in the series, we find out.
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