BLACKWOOD FARM, CHAPTER ELEVEN

[a_sporking_rat]

I'm reading a spork of The Black Jewels series and I noticed it has something in common with both the Vampire Chronicles and Anita Blake: Only powerful characters matter, and all the good characters are also the most powerful

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It's like Anne Rice has done research but not let it effect her prejudices, especially her adoration of rich people. It also feels like there are at least three separate books here. Why is Quinn a vampire at all and why does Lestat have any part of this?

Also, Manfred brought a random new prostitute into his home where they met his children like... bi-monthly? Okay, I take it back about Anne Rice doing her research. I guess it's possible someone could do this, but it would be considered infinitely strange. He might visit brothels himself, and he'd probably set up a nice home for his mistress, and he might rotate mistresses a few times in his life. But if he brought a woman into his home and she met his children, it would be because he considered the relationship extremely serious and likely permanent. Men did marry prostitutes on occasion, but whether he planned to marry Rebecca or not, doing this with her would mean she would take the place of a wife in his home.

a girl who was afraid of her own vicious Irish father and German-Irish mother

I'm reading this as saying the parents were vicious and terrifying because they were Irish and German-Irish. Anne Rice is yucky.

[a_sporking_rat]

Manfred is noted a lot as being considered insane but all his actions just point to him being mean and doing whatever he wants, which sounds like a basic entitled rich dude. He's compared directly to Lord Byron so I feel like it may be "romantic rogue" mad and less "actually mad"...so in other words, if he wants his girls in his house, fuck any ideas they might get about it, he does what he likes and how dare they expect more! I don't think we're meant to like him, though, so I'm fine with that.

Yeah, it's emphasized more than once she's Irish and it was all Irish girls Manfred was bringing home...it's from AQ's mouth so maybe it's meant to be prejudice on her part? Especially since she's sure to point out that wow Irish people sure are racist towards our nice black servants!

[a_sporking_rat]

oh and as for what Lestat/vampirism has to do with it, the mysterious squatter is a vampire and turns Quinn