Jilliana D. reviewed on 9/7/2009 + 3 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

Beautifully written; gorgeous, descriptive language depicting grief-stricken Louis' terrible struggle with adjusting to life as a vampire after being duped into it by the super-seductive Lestat. Rice was an alcoholic when she wrote this novel, and you can see the parallels to alcoholism with Lestat as the angry alcoholic, Louis as the co-dependent "spouse" and Claudia as the affected child.

I preferred the first part of the novel (which takes part in New Orleans), prior to Louis' trip to the old world but it is still a fascinating world to enter into, one you will not forget.

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