The first book of this series is The Witching Hour. I found myself quickly immersed in the history of this family. The story deals with the latest generation of the family. The family has a sort of evil guardian spirit who appears to be cultivating the family for purposes of his own. The history of the family is rich and detailed and comes out in the story through current events and flashbacks. The creature is fascinating with a very detailed personality. The second book continues the story while the third wraps things up and basically gives the whole story.
I must say that I like the fact that the final book wraps things up and explains everything. The explanation is not at all hokey and manages to maintain the tone of the story, though this book is less mysterious than the other two.
October 9, 2001
I've always been fascinated by Vampires and Anne Rice's story of Lestat and his comrades is interesting. I like her explanation of the origin of vampires and their powers; it's suitably occult but allows for a certain amount of extrapolation and explanation of abilities. Lestat eventually becomes so powerful that it's hard to write an interesting story about him, but Anne Rice solves that problem by writing about some of the other vampires.
One big problem I do have with the Vampire books is that all of the men (with one exception whose name I can't think of off-hand) are bisexual. I find this extremely unlikely and a bit jarring. She tends to dwell on descriptions of the beauty of the characters and their love for each other.
October 9, 2001
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