Review: Interview With The Vampire

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

Over all I am excited about this series. I am not a fan if Vampires necessarily however I had read Rice's memoir previously and therefore knew what aspects of her personal life were written into the novel both intentional and unintentional.

I would strongly recommend her memoir, "Called Out Of Darkness" as a prequel to this book or for further reading if you are already a fan of her work.

The imagery was so vivid throughout. There was a strong masculine feel as it was written in the first person as an interview of the vampire Louie.

The descriptions are so intense that any scene involving blood made me squirm as if I were really seeing the images. It was not grotesque however though extremely dark. It is a reselling of a damned immortal life, of course it is dark.

There are love interests but none are conventional. The entire sense of gender is obscured as there are sexual and/or Intimate moments between characters of all genders. From reading her memoir first I can see from her personal detachment from gender how this would come so natural to Rice. She wrote it in a way that felt natural as a reader as well.

The entire sense of life and death are different through the lens of an old world vampire. The same is true for the idea f religion. Though I can clearly see the vampires search for a higher power as a predominant theme throughout.

I will admit this book was a bit harder to get into at first but I stuck it out. In the end I enjoyed the story. I have begun to read book number two: The Vampire Lestat which I have found Much more interesting seeing as I now know the story through his partner Louie.

Over all I am impressed with this novel and even more impressed with the idea of all the books as a whole.