Stepheny's Reviews > The Queen of the Damned

Prior to reading the Queen of the Damned I only knew a handful of things about it. I knew that everyone RAVED over the book. I knew that Aaliyah had been cast for the movie and died during the filiming of it. But mostly, being the metal junky that I am, I knew that the soundtrack was the bee’s knees featuring Korn, Static-X, Deftones, Disturbed, Lincoln Park and other awesome bands that rocked my world at the time the movie was coming out. I actually never watched the movie- being the purist that I am- I wanted to read the book first. But I listened to that soundtrack a whole lot.

This book is jam-packed with information. As an audio book it was a little hard to follow and overwhelming at times. I am not ashamed to admit I had to look it up on Wikipedia to make sure I was getting the story straight before trying to write this review.

I’ll skip over most of the details and give the rundown of what really got my motor going.

OHMYGODTHEAWESOMENESSTHATISTHEBEGINNINGOFVAMPIRES.

Yup.

And in case you want that in English- the creation of vampires was the coolest fucking thing on the face of the planet. Pre-Egyptian royalty, witches, cannibalism, evil spirits, heads being severed, brains being eaten. I mean come ON people. Shit does not come cooler than that. It just doesn’t.

I really can’t get too much into the story without telling you all of it, so that’s all I’ll say about it.

With as confusing as it was as an audio book I still really enjoyed the story being told. I loved learning about the origin of the vampires and how it had been warped over time by the whispers of legend. It was quite fascinating. Simon Vance did an incredible job, once again, as narrator- you may have better luck reading it as a physical book rather than listening to it.