This much I will give to Anne Rice - at least Pandora, Armand and Vittorio (I'm going to ignore Blood and Gold for now because we know everything about Marius from all previous books) were about the characters in question. LKH has taken books about a certain character and made them all about Anita.

I'd write the books myself, but I think my brain would goosh out my nose and I don't want to have to poke it back in.

As for Jon...yes, it IS giving him far too much credit, but when you compare it to what LKH was raving on about? I'm willing to give the boy this one, small concession.