@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange for my money it’s all about Queen of the Damned. I think the first two books are lesser, but they do accomplish a certain amount of characterization that means that queen of the damned can be about 200 pages lighter. And then you get into the question of what happens if you challenge God and God answers back. That was pretty spectacular. Although it is deeply couched in the mythology of the asker, being in a rock band (but that’s forgivable, and rice lived in Haight-Ashbury during the critical period). And then there’s the whole Proto Indo European European/Egyptian/mythology of the story of the twins and Akasha. For a person who visits an etymology page nigh daily, that was pretty intoxicating. But I do agree, it fell off horribly after queen of the Damned: body thief, Mina… Highly confusing, and rice falling back to her native Catholicism.