I’m going to make a confession, while I realize Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire was groundbreaking and had a major impact on fiction, I found it a bit dull and something of a slog to get through. The ideas were neat but sometimes the style was needlessly dense and Louis was a terribly annoying protagonist to spend the whole book with.

In my opinion Anne Rice’s books get better after Interview, I think she got better as a writer with time. The Vampire Lestat was pretty engaging and The Queen of the Dammed even more so. It feels like Rice really came into her own and started fleshing out the complex and intriguing mythology she began with her other books.