Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
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\\xa0HAPPY HALLOWEEN to those who celebrate! We\'re continuing our Halloween tradition by bringing you another Anne Rice jam with Special Guest Dr. Claire!\\xa0\\xa0Last year we covered\\xa0The Vampire Lestat\\xa0and you should totally go\\xa0 back and listen to that one too.\\xa0 This time we didn\'t go for three hours -\\xa0two and a half hours is not three hours.\\xa0 We got off the rails because quite frankly this book never even got on the rails.\\xa0 This book is a speedboat trying to use the train tracks.\\xa0 That\'s our excuse here.
The Queen of the Damned\\xa0is, we all agreed, where the Vampire Chronicles went off the rails.\\xa0 It gets shaggy.\\xa0 It makes... somewhere south of narrative sense.\\xa0 It theoretically starts off where\\xa0The Vampire Lestat\\xa0leaves off (so if you want to know and you haven\'t read either, start with last year\'s podcast) but it actually takes half a book to get there.\\xa0 It has a bunch of ancient vampires and some baby vampires.\\xa0 It has crazy vampire mythology.\\xa0 It has some seriously dicey understandings of the developing world.\\xa0 It\'s bananas.\\xa0 Meet Akasha!\\xa0 She\'s the oldest vampire!\\xa0 She has dumb ideas!\\xa0 She\'s burning all the vampires.\\xa0 She burns most of them but the ones she doesn\'t burn talk a lot!\\xa0 Then a bog witch shows up and yanks her head clean off!\\xa0 End of book.\\xa0 See, Anne?\\xa0 That didn\'t need to be five hundred pages!
Content warnings - it\'s a vampire book so it\'s got all sorts of nonconsensual stuff going on but,\\xa0 like, even more so.\\xa0 It has people who Rice thinks are asexual because she doesn\'t understand the term.\\xa0 It has grooming.\\xa0 It has bananas racism.\\xa0\\xa0
And as promised, don\'t forget to check out our show notes to see some international covers for this book at our website, www.bodicetipplers.com!
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