Interview with a Vampire

I really really enjoyed this story a lot. I couldn't put this one down, maybe because I'm a big fan of True Blood and this reminded me a lot of it. I liked how it was written though the sentences didn't drag on and were straight to the point. It was kind of ironic that someone who was so depressed and keen on giving up on life, instead was given the chance to become immortal, and as I continued reading I realized the HBO series was so strongly based off of this this book that it started bothering me I hadn't read this sooner. They both don't follow the usual vampire rumors, such as crucafixes and garlic, and laugh saying at those saying it's all BS. They both also drink a vampires blood to heal, become a vampire, and it gives them a drug-like high. Even Lestats description is very close to one of the shows characters. I suppose this is bound to happen though.

Lestat and Louis were so opposite as characters, that I'm glad they brought in a third party or else their story was becoming a little predictable, especially with how they handled the farm and it's slaves. Claudia's character I liked alot. There's nothing more bone chilling then trying to help a lost little girl in the street and only to have her mindlessly kill you, and even how the writer described that she played with her food to get treats that she wanted made me want to second guess the next time I find a lost child. Her relationship to Louis was hard for me to wrap my head around after a while. At first I read perceived it as a Father, Daughter, kind of role, but how he and Lestat treated her it was almost as is Louis took on the motherly type of roles, giving her love and affection, while Lestat would be the colder one and much more like a father who put his time into bringing her out to hunt. It was very tragic how she was growing up mentally but not physically. It's a bit of a disturbing thought, I would hate to stay at the age of 6 and never be taken seriously even though I had the mind of a forty year old. That would drive me mad it would atleast be better if she were closer to twenty, and her Father, Daughter relationship she had with Louis started to make my stomach turn as I knew that she wasn't REALLY a little girl anymore. It just seemed wrong.

I didn't get to finish the whole thing, but definately plan on it.