I went into this book preparing to mock it for all its worth and here I am forced to eat those words. 
 That fucking rocked. 
 Am I biased? Almost assuredly. But I still loved it a lot more than I was prepared to. I'm glad that after 40 years of the series and the 20 years that I've been reading them that The Vampire Chronicles are still a thing and that they don't suck as much as they might by now. In fact, they don't suck at all. 
 Well 
 Wait 
 You know what I mean