A review by handove
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

i'm almost as confused on my feelings about this book as i was about the book itself.

i read this to satiate the growing brainrot from the tv show and it's very different, but i can see the base inspiration. as a whole, it was beautifully written and had some really poignant passages. unfortunately, it was boring as shit.

it was incredibly confusing at some points, notably a bit after louis arrives in europe (the long paragraphs of angsting did make it a bit hard to decipher. whiny as FUCK i tell you) what the fuck happened with madeleine. claudia is great as usual because it is impossible for my girl to not serve

other gripes:
  • anne rice really dug herself a hole by making feeding so erotic and a literal allegory for sex while also having her characters feed on children all the while
    • was there a purpose to that? no
  • louis and claudia are.. well he refers to her as his lover and wonders what it would be like if she was his paramour (pls keep in mind she's like physically five years old) which is as we all know the epitome of a halfway decent parent-child relationship
  • i felt rather detached at some point due to everything quite literally being dialogue told to the interviewer, which made it hard to get through
  • lestat :( miss you problematic babygirl
    • i say i miss him but idgaf about him in this book he's a lot of nothing
    • wish they explored his daddy issues more
  • not really a gripe with the book per se but i cannot tell you how much it threw me off whenever louis or armand were described as white, which was. a LOT.
  • i know this was part of the effect, but the ending was just really unsatisfying imo. actually the whole book was unsatisfying

wait let me say something positive
you could tell anne rice had issues with catholicism bc that scene in the church? gold, actually

back to the show bc this ldpdl is #notmylouis
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