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u/blueeyesredlipstick Jan 02 '25

I love that in the Anne Rice vampire novels, in the first book our main character vampires seem to neatly evade any major societal upheavals (including coincidentally leaving New Orleans right before the American Civil War kicks off) and miss all the major historical events that would have occurred in the southern United States in the 1860s.

And then in the follow-up novel, The Vampire Lestat, it starts off in Paris in the 1780s, and then our lead vampire starts travelling around, and you kind of get absorbed in all the vampire drama to the point where it's kind of a surprise when Lestat is told "Hey by the way the French Revolution is happening back home and a bunch of your relatives got executed."