Discover La Reina De Los Condenados (Crónicas Vampíricas, #3) Executed By Anne Rice File Readable Copy

This is the book in which this phenomenal series reached its considerable peak, This is on my short list for best vampire novels, HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!!

Nominee: Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
Nominee: Locus Award for Best Horror NovelLestat has rocked the vampire world with his music and his book revelations.
But his voice has reached far more than he imagined it has come to the ears of Akasha, the first vampire, the Queen of the Damned, For the first time in millennia, she has woken up

And she has plans plans for Lestat, plans for the world of vampires and plans for all humanity.


It falls for a few ancient vampires to try and stop her as she unleashes carnage to realise her vision of what the world

should be.




This book ispages long, And like every Anne Rice books Ive read to date it could easily be half that or less, I cannot even begin to describe the amount of redundancy and repetition there is in this book,

Usually when we get a character, the author will describe a bit about them, give some insight into their background and let the rest develop as the story progresses.
Not Anne Rice. In these books we get a character and before they do anything even slightly relevant we have to have their life history, Not just their life history, but if were really lucky, we get their ancestry backgenerations at least as well, Its boring, its dull, its utterly irrelevant to anything resembling the plot,

I cant even say theres much in the way of coherent plot here anyway, A large part of the book involves recapping the last book, We have the dreams of the twins that just serve to be ominous foreshadowing but are repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated over and over, I really cant stress how repetitive this book is this same dream is recounted not just from multiple sources but then multiple times from each source, And this is a theme throughout the books, we have multiple sources all thinking about Lestat and his music but all thinking exactly the same thing about Lestat and his music.
So we get the same thing over and over

And when people finally gather together their grand plan is EPIC EXPOSITION, Seriously, people being slaughtered, Askasha raging away and the gang gathers to havesolid nights of storytelling, The most long winded, repetitive story telling imaginable, Face the enemy with long winded folktales!

Then theres the characters all of whos point of view we are treated to in ridiculous length most of which are utterly irrelevant.
At least Louis and Gabrielle and Armand have some history in the story and we dont see too much from their POV, theyre recognised as being spectators, But the rest What exactly was the point of Khayman He just kind of sat in a corner and was ineffably sad, But we got pages and pages from his POV, Jesse What did Jesse actually do What was the point of her What was the relevance of her Great Family But she was there, her POV, her chapters worth of backstory was dragged up, we roped in the Talamasca for more pages of pointlessness because none of it was relevant.
None of it added to the overall plot, None of it added to the ending, None of her history or story was really relevant, And Daniel another character inserted with a painfully long backstory and history with Armand who, like Louis and Gabrielle and Armand and Jesse, ended up being nothing more than a spectator for the and I use the term loosely action.
These characters are not part of the story, theyre spectators, its like stopping a play in the middle so we can hear the biography of Mrs, Jones in therd row of the theatre, It doesnt matter, I have no reason to care, its pure padding

sitelinkRead More I am so unbelievably glad to be done with this series.
Let me reiterate here in case it is not apparent, if I had not checked out a large evolume that contained all three novels, I would never have started this one given that The Vampire Lestat was so unappealing.
Unfortunately, my kindle said I was onlydone with the book after that one and I felt compelled to finish sometimes I really hate my OCD, The third book was hands down the worst of the set, I can't believe she really kep writing more in this series and that people actually bought them,

First of all, let me correct this misconception that all is nicely explained in volume, I say this not because there is mystery and unsolved intrigue, I say this because despite being a drearypages long THERE IS NO NEW MATERIAL HERE, In, we got the story of Armand and Marius and even the legend of how the blood drinkers came to be, In, we just get a few more details, And my god, is it boring,

Second, I am still befuddled as to why the vampires care about humans at all, I get that the blood drinking is really unnecessary but fills them with ecstasy kind of like amazing sex EVERY TIME and so they are all guilty, I get that they used to be humans and can appreciate the beauty created by and the limitations set upon a mortal, human, life, I understand that they have some regret, I even get that Lestat and Akasha to the most extent, but all of these vamps to some extent crave attention and want to be worshiped again a vain and human characteristic.
BUT WHY THE FUCK DO THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT THE HUMAN RACE We are supposed to believe that Akasha has spent the lastyears sitting quietly in a tomb pondering how to improve humanity and after falling in love with Lestat she finally has the gumption to get off her ass and implement her plan.
Really Really Why would anyone spendyears pondering this question It would have been so much more believable if she was just a power hungry blood drinker looking for more victims kind of like Azim in the mountains, but no.
. . we are supposed to believe she is altruistic,

And then, of course, we have to stomach the ridiculousness of her plan, Yes, this is not a new argument Rice is coming straight out of the feminist movement of thes with this one give all the power to the women and there will not be war, but it has never been a believable one to me for a couple reasons.
First, women and men are not dichotomous creatures, For those of you who don't believe me, read some of the stuff on intersexed babies: aboutof all people are born with ambiguous genitalia, Masculine and feminine are created cultural gender roles that we assign to people with specific sex characteristics, In modern times we are becoming more accepting of the middle area people with mixed sex characteristics or people who have one type but are emotionally attached to being the other gender.
You can't killof the people with penises and just declare that you have eliminated the men, Some of the people that you treat as women will actually be men, Secondly and partly because of this, women not inherently less violent than men, People within a group struggle for domination and acceptance, If a group is all women, there are still power dynamics and struggles between members, Women can be just as ruthless as men in trying to get what they want, Thirdly, the lack of men will not eliminate rape, I found this to be the most ridiculous point of Akasha's: Mekere and Maharet were raped not because Enkil wanted to do so after all, he passed the job on to Khayman and certainly not because Khayman wanted to do it: THEY WERE RAPED BECAUSE AKASHA ORDERED IT DONE!!! As Queen, she demanded that a man dominate these women on her behalf.
If there had been fewer men in the kingdom, this rape would have still occurred, In fact, the creature in the book responsible for the most deaths including the destruction of the twins' village is Akasha!

I was also annoyed at a small but significant timeline point in this book.
It opens with Lestat talking to the reader as if the reader just finishedit is set up as Lestat's sequel which was left with a cliffhanger at the end of Halloween night after Lestat's concert.
Lestat then explains to the reader that he must go back in time to before the concert to give us insight to all of these character's thoughts and feelings, etc leading up to the big night.
Fine, I'm with you there, BUT THEN each of the characters describes their thoughts about the concert and Lestat's book, We learn that the book was released along with the record a few days before the concert, Huh How couldcontain information about what happens on the night of the concert, and how could all of these creatures have read it prior to the night of the concert Rice wants it to be a continuous chain so badly, but reallycould only contain information leading up to six months or maybe not even that close before the concert.
Otherwise, how the hell could the book have been edited and published and distributed and read before the big day, I know that this is sort of silly but it bothered me the whole time I was reading and every time someone new talked about how they felt when they read about the night.


As an aside, I also thought the fact that Anne used her hubby's poems as epigraphs for each chapter very annoying,

Overall, this is not worth reading, The series is a complete waste of time run from these books as if they were going to squeeze your head like a grape and suck your blood.
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