u/Fine-Platypus-1072

First off I want to say I thought it was really well written. I think this and TVA, as heartbreaking as it is, are my favorites so far.

I know when Anne first told the story of Armand and Marius, when Armand was telling it to Lestat at the castle that she probably didn't know she was going to take the story as far as she did. Hence why Marius never saved Armand. But the way she wrote TVA, Armand's complete devotion to Marius, and Marius seeming love and obsession for Armand, It really does not sit right with me that she basically had to come up with a reason why Marius never went to save Armand. (Because she already wrote it that way years earlier) But let me tell you my goodness, this book had me yelling. How quickly after Armand was kidnapped that he changed course to just forget him to go find Pandora. How extremely selfish was he to groom Armand and then let him go like that. I so wish that it could have been a different story that he would have saved Armand. It would have been so much more satisfying. It's eating at me.

Did Marius not heavily explain how he should not have made Armand so young, just to go make a 12 year old? What?? Where is the character consistency?

The whole Benji and Sybelle storyline isn't sitting right with me either. Armand does not give off father figure energy. A 12 year old who smokes.. and gives his life to protecting a young woman he doesn't know?

I feel like as the books go on the characters become more deranged and I feel like the consistency of the characters just kinda goes away. She's just writing as she feels now.

Also, the ending of Memnoch Lestat walks out of the chapel only for the beginning of TVA he's catatonic and Anne never addresses this. Major thing to leave out. It's clear what happened but still.

I feel like I should just stop here to protect the image of the characters I already have. I won't, I absolutely love these books and characters, but damn Anne!

At the end of Memnoch Lestat walks out of the chapel, and at the beginning of the vampire Armand he's catatonic, I'm only a few pages in but do they ever describe what happens?