Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

I have read the whole Interview with a Vampire series and I love them all. Anne Rice has this ability to create an immense sense of sensuality without there being any actual sex, she also creates the richest characters with such deep backstories. Anne Rice is definitely one of my favorite authors, she puts all other vampire media to shame. 

It was so brilliant of Rice to do this story as an interview from the vampires perspective, it makes the storyline come to life as if these were actual events that Louie went through and these are his thoughts and emotions thrust upon some pages.  Louie is so relatable because he is the most humane vampire among the character list. He tries to eat only animals, he still has a sense of humane morale and the amount of depression he feels from feeling and experiencing so much of life is crazy. Throughout the rest of the books as well, he remains the one and only vampire who is the closest still to a human being. 

Lestat is basically Louie's polar opposite, yes they are both vampires but Lestat is such a different beast, it makes the story so dramatic and interesting with the two polar opposites colliding. Louie learns basically everything from Lestat as this sort of messed up father figure. He gets the basics of surviving from Lestat but he also learns what not to do and how to retain human morales. I find it very interesting how Rice uses Claudia as the glue for Lestat and Louie. Without Claudia, the two probably would have gone there separate ways a lot earlier.

This series so great and the story keeps getting richer and richer as we learn more about the different cultures within vampirism and how Louie, Lestat, Claudia and Armand are so drastically different from the rest of the vampire community. It's as if vampires get more violent and ill mannered as the bloodlines thin out. The younger the vampire, the more ignorant and reckless.