The problem with these serial movies is that they do not really have a beginning, but continue where the previous one left off (so that you have to remember many things from the a movie you saw two years ago) and, even worse, they do not really have an end, but leave everything open to possible further sequels. And then, of course, there are the 41 (and counting) mistakes.

6 points

This third part of the Vampire Chronicles starts great: Awakened by Lestat's (who has taken up a career as a rock star) songs, Akasha, an Egyptian queen and mother of all vampires, rises from her six-thousand-year sleep, bringing great uncertainty and worry to blood drinkers of all ages and countries. In the first half of the book the major characters travel to San Francisco to see Lestat's concert where all events culminate. Their backgrounds are very diverse and interesting and the idea to integrate the publishing of the first two novels (Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat) into the story line is also quite clever. In the second half, after the concert, however, I found the book to turn rather dull, and almost decided to put it down and stop reading Anne Rice for good (in fact, I did put it down and turned to The Bonfire of the Vanities). The novel is somehow redeemed by its last chapter, which, after Akasha is dealt with, provides a cliff-hanger opening to the next parts of the series.