Cav's Place

It’s all right overall, but too anchored in reality in all its action and meaning for my liking. I do my best to run away from reality in life; I don’t want to bump into it in books too.
Also too “foggy”. When I read, I always try to “make the movie” in my head. With this book, I had a very hard time doing that.

Rating: 6/10

Compared to the rest, the story is predictable and lacks that greatness that The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned had, but it does have great moments. The discussions with David and Gretchen and those two “increasing the amount of light in the universe” moments with the candles; for some reason I just loved those images.
When Lestat says in that tiny chapter 32 that the book should have ended at the end of chapter 31, and that you might wish to stop reading there anyway, since if you read chapter 33 you might wish you hadn’t… Believe him; I wish I hadn’t read it.
Great book anyway.

Rating: 9/10

Setting fantasy in modern times really seems strange; restrains the writer from a lot of what fantasy should mean, if you ask me. But, even with this problem, I did like it. Well written, nice enough story and quite well built characters. Got to more or less hate Joan, like Miriam, try to understand Gillian and, believe it or not, didn’t get to dislike Amadan.
Good enough overall, but, as I said, fantasy set in modern times isn’t really my thing.

Rating: 3/5

Got to it before Andra; apparently she wants to wait until she’ll buy this series before reading them. I don’t know if I was supposed to say this…
Compared with The Vampire Lestat or The Queen of the Damned? Poor.
Taken by itself? Good enough.
The first part is awful, but, as soon as Louis forgets about Daniel, or Daniel stops being so afraid, and actually starts telling his story, things get a lot better. Reading Lestat first and knowing the general idea of things and how things would eventually end and seeing the movie some years ago certainly didn’t make reading this book more captivating, so my judgment could be a little off because of that.
Now since I read the other two first, Louis’ description of Lestat made me frown several times. Maybe if I would have read them in the right order, things would have been the other way around.
Good foundation for the series anyway.

Rating: 7/10

Andra didn’t get to this one before me either, although I didn’t by any means pounce on it as soon as it arrived.
Maybe good for a basic background of a game, maybe also good for reading, but… Something seems unbalanced. The first half of the book didn’t seem to be heading anywhere, then everything just happens way too fast in the second half. Magic users way too powerful, fighters way too dumb, though the thieves were nice, and twists that were way too strained. Going out of your way to make things seem impossible and then “forgetting” a problem or putting characters in the middle of the action out of the blue to do things that the main characters couldn’t… Spoiler warning: Did anyone else notice that the sorceress is no longer harmed when casting spells during that battle for the stone even before she gets the stone? And who or what was that thing that helped them after that fight, where did he come from and why did he do what he did? That guy’s appearance is just all too convenient…
Quite good enough, but too forced somehow.

Rating: 7/10