The Queen of the DamnedAs we become closer to others and follow them and their path, we lose our own path and a part of ourselves in the process. Queen of the Damned is the third book by Anne Rice in The Vampire Chronicles series. At first, they are a group of current immortal vampires who fight to save mortal humans from the first vampire Akasha. She diabolically plans to enslave humanity and destroy all men on earth in order to end wars and promote peace. She decides to save a male Lestat and his friends and that's where the nightmare really begins. Horror is a state of mind caused by the confrontation between living and dying. In Queen of the Damned, horror manifests itself in Akasha's murders and vampire resurrections. Anne Rice is the author of The Queen of the Damned. She was born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 4, 1941. Rice was the second of four daughters of Irish Catholic parents Howard O'Brien and Katherine Allen O'Brien. Her husband Stan Rice passed away, but they had two beautiful children Michele and Christopher Rice. Anne spent most of her childhood on the poor streets of New Orleans with a father never around due to his service in the U.S. Army and a mother struggling with her obsession with alcohol. Rice's name, Howard, came from her father because he was strong and her mother wanted her to be strong like him. Anne's lowest point came when she was fifteen, when her mother died of alcohol addiction and her father, not knowing what else to do, placed the children in care. host family. Nevertheless, it made Anne stronger; it showed her that if she wanted to survive, it would be on her own. “I have always been my own teacher, and I must admit that I have also been my favorite student” (www.biograph...... middle of paper ......society through beliefs and religion is to use the cross to get rid of vampires and holy water to kill them Modern America has not lost its connection to religion, spiritually, and Anne Rice's book proves it. The Queen of the Damned is far from black and white or a battle of good against evil, one of the themes is cannibalism and bloodshed, but these are not the main parts of the book. book symbolizes everything from battles between the sexes, war, poverty, loyalty and world apocalypse. It also compares today's life to that of history and religion. is not for those lacking imagination It contains large amounts of unforeseen conflict and violence that would take a true genius to decipher with lots of unanswered questions for readers to draw their own conclusions and beliefs..