Interview with the Vampire Book Review

Book: 352 pages= Interview with the Vampire Rating= four out of five stars
      Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is the long life-story of Louis, 200-year old vampire who decides to tell his story to a news reporter. The novel was published in 1976 and adapted as a film in 1994. The story was followed by a collection of more books but, of course, it was this first novel that started it all.
       In the plantation of New Orleans, back 1791, Louis starts his life as a young human owning a plantation along with a crew of slave workers. Mourning from the death of his brother, Louis encounters a vampire named Lestat and seeks to become a vampire himself in order to cure his misery. Thus, begins the adventure of Louis and Lestat, the two vampires who destroy the plantation and all the workers in it in order to start a new life somewhere else. Louis’s personality slowly changes under the influence of his own vampiric self and Lestat’s companionship.
     A six-year old girl, called Claudia, is soon stumbled upon when Louis drinks blood from the plague-ridden girl. Meantime, Lestat senses Louis’s desire to leave him and to go their separate ways so Lestat turns the young sickly girl into a vampire so she’d become a sort of “daughter” figure.
       The trio embarks on many obstacles. By the end of the story, the news reporter (referred to only as “the boy” in the book) is also influenced by the story of Louis’s long life.
      Anne Rice creates a rich story about the loneliness of immortality and lost idealism. Interview with a Vampire overviews the rare lesson of how even if you may live long, death and sadness can still affect you the absolute most.