Status Updates From La reine des damnés

Akasha is a goddess on a crusade. Her interlude is a horrifying holy war against the male gender, a genocide of 99% of the male population as the origin for the evils of the world. This begins with Azim, the dude Pandora went to see at the beginning of the book. sUcH wOnDeRfUl ChArAcTeRs…

I am struggling to care about the vampire origin story. this book is one long lore dump.

Maharet is about to tell the tale of the twins to the remaining vampire players, but no, it’s time for a Lestat interlude. TREMENDOUS BOOING.

In a move that should surprise absolutely NO ONE, Jesse is turned into a vampire in order to save her life. You vamps didn’t see that coming?? I think that she’s also the reincarnation of the other twin sister? I think that the one who got her tongue cut out in 4kBC or whatever died, and was possibly eaten by her sister. Idk, the way in which this intersects with Akasha and Lestat is, like, eye-roll inducing.

Jesse is something like a main character. Khayman’s internal revelations at the concert don’t help to clarify. What we have now is that Maharet is one of the twins, and Akasha made her and Khayman. As to the WHY of Akasha, we still don’t know, but Khayman gives credence to the “malicious spirit” theory. My money is on, idk, I got no clue.