It’s completely irrelevant, not very interesting and probably better suited to analysis in a seminary than actually read as a novel in the ongoing vampire series.īut looking at the bits that actually involve the vampires rather than some of the dreariest and long winded exposition I have ever had the displeasure to ready, and it’s not much better or more sensible. It’s just a big splurge of theological theory pretending to be a novel. I’d like to write more on this since it is the vast majority of the book, but there really is nothing more to say. It may as well have been one long the logical lecture – inly told in the most long winded, dullest way possible. All of the characters are utterly superfluous to this story. The vampires are utterly superfluous to this story. If Lestat weren’t being dragged around to occasionally declare himself impressed/awed/horrified it wouldn’t be relevant at all. It’s a vast amount of world building that is utterly irrelevant to anything the vampires do in their daily lives It really is just one long exposition on what the Bible could mean or a spin on it or on the nature of god. An info-dump that I cannot even imagine having even the slightest relevance to the series. ONE LONG INFODUMP! One horrendously long, unbelievably unnecessary info-dump. There’s something tucked at the end (a teeny tiny something). Oh there’s something tucked at the beginning. For a story or a plot to happen, well, things have to happen.
What it isn’t, is much of a story or a plot. Perhaps even “Memnoch lectures you endlessly while Lestat practices his melodrama”. Memnoch the Devil, also known as “the Bible according to Anne Rice” or “Anne Rice’s theological musings”. Memnoch the Devil takes Lestat on an extremely long tour of the past, creation, angels, evolution, the passion of Christ and more – because he has a job proposition for the Brat Prince
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