#then it's what sevraine around a thousand years later

[rainbowcarousels]

I don't know if it's just that the information isn't there or if I didn't pick up on it (probably both) but this is what I've ended up with and the major common eras seem to be roughly the first century bc, ancient egypt, early middle ages and the 17th/18th century. Which seems like it would be a buck wild set of habitats to fill with flowers and foods and other recreated cultural things.

Today I'm imagining Trinity Gate throwing a Come As You Were party for people with different 'habitats' within it for the eras a lot of people are from with foods and plants and music from it.

Imagine the outfits. Imagine people trying to explain jokes that only make sense in a language that's not spoken that way anymore. Imagine the grand romantics of the the 18th century mixed with the Roman empire and modern day. Imagine the sourcing of materials and accessories.

They'd have so much fun.

[lumensuperbis]

continuing the blood communion liveblog

first post is here. this part covers chapters 6-13 and is much shorter than my first post, either because i’m getting tired or because the book is getting mildly less stupid [but still incredibly boring]

summary: lestat doesn’t WANT to kill people, no matter what he has done in the past or will do later. people sit around and talk about things that have happened instead of showing any action on the page. the plot [such as it is] finally arrives literally halfway through the book.

chapter 6

[lestat waxes on for several pages about how he doesn't want to kill people so that later when he 'has' to kill people we'll feel sorry for him]

also why does literally every single 'action' item in this book take place off screen? arjun killed: off screen. all this stalking and shit that rhosh is doing: off screen. like you know what a horribly boring book is? a book where people just move from room to room talking about things that have already happened.

chapter 7

as thorne literally carries lestat across the atlantic so fast that he PASSES OUT. #lmao

"My assistant Barbara was there, and she had a fresh coat for me and helped me into it." "Barbara was brushing my hair." girl, please, love yourself

"Both Pandora and Sevraine were in long dark shimmering gowns and flat slippers and had a rather angelic look to them. Only such beautiful blood drinkers revealed their bare shoulders, arms, and bosoms as these two did now in these low-cut and clinging garments, and I found it distracting" I don't ...sure. whatever. jfc.

"He was almost in rags, what people today call rags, soiled clothes all mismatched, a shabby torn dress coat, and a workingman’s blue denim shirt and a muffler of knitted wool." everyone knows you can easily discern whether someone is evil by whether or not they wear ~rags~

and the rest is under the cut

chapter 8

“There’s a lot you don’t know,” said Cyril. “But in olden times we knew it. Bind up a blood drinker in iron and he can’t make fire or send force against you. He can’t even call to others.” yeah okay anne. in the fucking thirteenth book of the series: oh did you know that vampires are weak against iron? OH HAVEN'T YOU HEARD??? if i ever reread these books i'm marking down any time they come into contact with iron.

"But I didn’t take out his eyes. I was tempted to, but this was simpler." IT WAS SIMPLER TO WRAP HIM IN AN ENTIRE FENCE THAN TAKE OUT HIS GODDAMN EYES?? YOU COULD HAVE LITERALLY KEPT THEM TO PUT THEM BACK IN. FFS

i love how two books ago lestat made such a big deal of making this heavy-ass axe that no one else could lift because it was sooo heavy and now he's like 'you can BEND a FENCE??? I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO AMAZING!'

how many more times do i have to read the word 'gundesanth' like it's a real name

"Are you satisfied, Lestat, that we’ve given him a trial?” Gregory asked" i mean you DEFINITELY didn't but go on

“Ah, it’s just he put a curse on you when you drank from him,” said Cyril." OH YES. THAT VERY COMMON THING.

chapter 9

i'm crying. lestat literally can't recognize gregory because he usually shaves before lestat sees him and lestat is sitting over here like 'who ARE you' and having an orgasm over his fucking beard. #disaster

chapter 10

he has a literal throne now so ...that's happening i guess

“Those of us made young,” he said, “we never grow up. Five hundred years or a thousand. It makes no difference. Time gives us room to be forever stupid and blind with the confusion and passions of the young, vulnerable to the masters who made us and ensnare us.” that might literally be the first smart thing anyone has said in 3 fucking books [well, probably longer really, since book 10 was the giant babies bullshit]. RIP benedict, apparently the only person in this series with an ounce of sense left.

chapter 11

i like how i somehow lost my place and literally SKIPPED THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER and just assume that anne had once again cut the actual action sequence in lieu of just talking about it later and didn't realize until i came back here and saw my chapter headings didn't match up with what i was reading. fun game: try to figure out how many chapters in this book are completely skippable

chapter 12 and 13

and gabrielle gets kidnapped. has the actual plot of this book finally shown up literally almost half of the way through