The Vampire Chronicals, Anne Rice Interview with the Vampire  ***** Hmm...this is the starter. this is where it all begins. Louis (and that's a FRENCH name and therefore, you do NOT pronounce the "s"!! Loo-wee not Loo-is) tells his vampiric tale to a young male reporter named Daniel. Very easy to read-it rolls well and flows. It is told as a narrative and reads smoothly.   The Vampire Lestat  **** This is where it really begins. All her books kinda explain some of the last book as well as become a story of their own. And Lestat is no different. This time around, the infamous Lestat (dubbed by his fellow blood-drinkers the "Brat Prince") takes the reins and tells the truth of the past as well as give us his own history. This is a key book as it comes from Lestat's point of view and remains there for the next 3 or so books. The Vampire Chronicles becomes really, The Lestat Chronicles. Again written very well and it too flows well when read.   The Queen of the Damned  **** Ok, so if you were a few thousand year old queen, who had been snoozing the last two or so millennia away  and suddenly you woke up at the end of the 20th century, you might be a little pissed too. Well, this is it....this is where the Queen decides she wants to rule again-and not just over her vampiric children, but over the world. (Talk about some power trip!)   Tale of the Body Thief  **** This was one of my personal favorites. In this tale, Lestat makes a deal with a mortal who can literally switch bodies. Realizing that it's been a few months since his last adventure, the ever insatiable Lestat embraces this quest to regain (temporarily) his humanity. Unfortunately, it lasts a little longer than he wanted....   Memnoch the Devil  *** This was a roller-coaster ride of myth and religion and philosphy...Lestat goes to Heaven and Hell (quite literally) and back again with the Devil himself as his guide. This one can get a bit heavy-handed in a way when it comes to the religion bits, but all in all, a very unorthodox perspective from the very Catholic Rice.   Pandora  *** While technically the first of the "New Vampire Chronicles" it's really logistically the next book in the series. This one leaves all the world and plot lines behind and looks at the mortal life of Pandora and her transformation into darkness. I enjoyed this story since it was very different and mostly new and removed, however, I felt it ended abruptly. Ultimately, while a fast and easy read was just seemed like filler until the next book could be written.   The Vampire Armand  ** Again, we leave the present behind and embracing the "life story" idea from Pandora, we not only discover that yes, Armand is alive and uncooked, but his mortal life with Maruis. I didn't get into this one as much. Here we found all the spoon-feeding of Catholicism that any Pagan could (not) want as well as one of her "confusing" writing books. (I've come to the conclusion that Anne write two ways: perfected "spoken" like a narative-easy to read and visualize and then her flowery, over descriptive and convoluted "word flourishes".) Unfortunately, Armand was one of the latter. What this means, is that you'll be reading along and she will shift zip! quick as that and you're running (and rereading) to catch up.  And she ends it basically in mid-scene, leaving you unsatisfied and muttering, "ok, now what?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Michael Romkey I, Vampire  ***** Now, here is a book that's written either by one of us, or someone who knows us personally...this is about as close to reality as I have ever read...it's the story of a lawyer, his cheating wife, his frustration with the world, who longs to finish the piano concerto that he feverishly works on. He meets a beautiful woman in the midst of his world' collapse, and aides her. Turns out, she's a vampire...and she shares her gift with him. Trouble is, he is newly "reborn" and alone-trying to figure it all out and confront his evil, Hunger-driven self. This is a very cool book with lots of surprises and twists. Great read.   The Vampire Papers  **** Every good book needs a sequel, and here is it. This one takes a different approach-its told in the form of journals and articles...David (our fledgling vampire from the first one) has been welcomed into the secret arms of the Illuminati and has been given a mission: find out which rouge vampire is killing in New York (and subsequently, drawing unwanted headlines) and stop them. Unfortunately, trouble finds him and he begins a decent into darkness...Oh, and the vampire he's hunting? That's a surprise too.   The Vampire Princess  *** Seduced into a exploring his killing instinct, David books passage with his new love and she basically, turns the whole ship into vampires (and those not turned, are food) and, the ship runs afoul and sinks and it all ends, whatever, but while David survives, we never actually see him again. This was ok, but no where near as good as the first two.   The Vampire Virus  ** So, this one has NOTHING to do with the others except that it contains vampires. I swear, it seems like the first (and maybe the second) were written by someone else-the last two aren't that good. This one takes place in the rain forests of Costa Rica where an disease-control researcher stumbles onto an ancient secret.