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>>24716750
i could post a summary but you should just read the review. it's a self-contained story set in her vampire universe about an entity who claims to be the Devil, who recounts an alternate Christian cosmology.

>>24716761
read the story*
my bad. anyway it's really entertaining, go read it.

Is this the one where a vampire eats a girl's period blood or something? I've been meaning to read some Anne Rice but I've heard so many conflicting opinions about her. I've definitely noticed that this particular book has a cult following so my interest is piqued.

>>24716943
i'd rather not spoil anything but yes, late in the novel lestat licks up a girl's period blood. that sounds extremely macabre, if'/when you read the novel you will see there is a reason for this. might help to read other vampire novels before to lay the groundwork for the tragedy vampires experience. memnoch is 95% about the narrators story, 5% about vampire existentialism.

i think rice was a fantastic writer until her later years when she published a bunch of slop. i strongly suspect her son christopher is responsible for the slop since he's half the writer she was. probably published under her name because that's where the money is.

>>24717095
>i strongly suspect her son christopher is responsible for the slop since he's half the writer she was. probably published under her name because that's where the money is.
This is actually a minor plot point in her novel Belinda. Which makes it all the more intriguing if it's true.

>>24716719
Read a few Rice books and remember enjoying them but vampires in media were becoming popular so I stopped.

>>24717192
you should never let the popularity of something determine whether a thing is worth engaging/reading with or not. popularity is entirely uncorrelated with quality.
the popular vampire novels you are undoubtedly referring to are trash. rice was the popular vampire author, but stopped writing about them in 2001 - 2002