A review by zelos
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

my first time rereading this book in 10+ years and i liked it more this time than the first for certain. rice's prose gets muddy sometimes and her pacing can be abysmal, but when it's good, it's killer. when i read this book at 14 claudia unsettled and terrified me, but today she mostly makes me sad - the way other characters react to her is far more unsettling, and at times it almost feels like rice isn't totally aware of how strange it is, and other times it seems entirely intentional. louis is a character i really had little interest in until the end, at which point i decided i actually adore him despite the... everything. i think if the pacing in this book wasn't so abysmally slow and it didn't linger so often on louis looking at claudia as his "lover" it would make the muddy prose and stilted dialogue way easier to swallow lmao. but it's still a 4 bc no matter how much i complain about this book it continues to stick in my brain