Katherine Villyard reviewed Blood Communion
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5 stars
Er, after the one with the aliens I wasn’t sure I was ready to read this, but… I liked it! I might have been over-generous because it’s the last and also not as cracktastic as the previous one, but…
There were a few minor points of things I didn’t like, but… in general, I (sorry) appreciated the shipping. It tied up the series as a journey from isolation to community.
Things I didn’t like (in a good way): Benedict’s death—genuinely horrific. People thinking Gabrielle, Louis, and Marius were dead (but if Alessandra and Magnus came back, surely Anne wouldn’t do that to us in the last book!).
Things I didn’t like (in a bad way): Lestat famously preferred drinking evildoers until the previous book, where Amel hounded him for “innocent blood” and now that Amel is gone he’s still preferring “innocent blood” now? Boo!
I’m torn on Lestat having to …
Er, after the one with the aliens I wasn’t sure I was ready to read this, but… I liked it! I might have been over-generous because it’s the last and also not as cracktastic as the previous one, but…
There were a few minor points of things I didn’t like, but… in general, I (sorry) appreciated the shipping. It tied up the series as a journey from isolation to community.
Things I didn’t like (in a good way): Benedict’s death—genuinely horrific. People thinking Gabrielle, Louis, and Marius were dead (but if Alessandra and Magnus came back, surely Anne wouldn’t do that to us in the last book!).
Things I didn’t like (in a bad way): Lestat famously preferred drinking evildoers until the previous book, where Amel hounded him for “innocent blood” and now that Amel is gone he’s still preferring “innocent blood” now? Boo!
I’m torn on Lestat having to make the hard decisions, provide evildoer humans for his new baby vampires to drink, order deaths, etc. Anne was always pretty insistent that they’re monsters, though. I was most dismayed by Kapetria (sp?) offering her almost will-free offspring as eternal lunch. I…. Oh boy. I… am not certain this meets my ethical standards.
But! Generally, it tied up the things, so.