Interview With The Vampire
by Anne Rice, 1976
Yet another vampire novel! But this one is really different from Breaking Dawn. Mostly, it's because that book was written for young adults, but also because Interview With The Vampire deals with the more "classic" vampire tale. (They sleep in coffins and can't go out during the day, where as the vampires of the Twilight series don't sleep at all and can go out during the daytime, but they tend to sparkle when standing in direct sunlight.)
The book begins with the Vampire (referred to simply as "the vampire", though we find out his name as a human was Louis) and a boy armed with a tape recorder alone in a room together. The boy begins the interview, for which the book was named, by asking "You weren't always a vampire, were you?" And then the vampire tells his "life" story, for lack of a better phrase.
My first thought was "Of course, the vampire is gonna kill the other guy," but so far (about 60 pages in), he hasn't. I guess there wouldn't be much of a book then if he just came right out and killed the interviewer. My second thought was, "Oh, the vampire'll just kill the other guy at the end of the book. He'll say something like, 'And now that you know my whole story, I have to kill you to protect my lifestyle!'" So I skipped to the end of the book and read the last line. And.........
Turns out the interviewer doesn't get killed. Actually, he is given the address of another vampire, the vampire Lestat, the same one who turned Louis into a vampire. I guess the fact that there were sequels to the book should have given it away that the boy wasn't killed after all.
I really like this book so far and I hope it continues to live up to my expectations of good vampire novels.
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