Mmmm Vampires

So I'm sad to admit I'm one of those crazy kids that has gotten into the vampire fad. Watching "True Blood", reading the Twilight series, I got sucked in. So when I found out we were going to read "Interview with a Vampire" I was very excited. I had tried to read it about 5 years ago but I couldn't get into it, Anne Rice has a different way of writing than I'm used to reading. But this time around I was determined to finish it. I stumbled across the same issue as the first time reading it, Anne Rices writing style. She writes things in a style that's very different than what I usually prefer. It is solely based on conversation, and there is lots of back and forth creating almost a rhythm. But once I got past that, I found it to have a great story and well developed characters. Claudia was one of those most interesting characters of the book, I was always curious to see how she would change while not changing at all. I think that is the most intriguing thing about vampires, even though you don't see any physical changes taking place on their bodies, mentally and emotionally they are always changing. They attain so much knowledge of the world and of people, which helps some of the oldest vampires to have great wisdom. But back to Claudia, in her unique situation not only is she attaining more knowledge but she is also maturing. Its almost impossible to wrap your head around the idea of forever being trapped in the body of a 5 year old. The concept of child vampires or young vampires seems to occur in other vampire stories as well. Such as in Twilight in the last book of the series the main character gives birth to a half vampire, half human child. But I digress, The other character I really enjoyed was Armand. The old, wise characters are usually one of my favorites in any type of book or movies, such as Gandalf, Dumbledore...etc. So I was immediately drawn to Armand since he is one of the oldest vampires, the oldest one we meet in the book. I wish I could have seen his relationship with Louis develop more and I feel it could have turned out very different if it wasn't for the destruction of Claudia and Madeline. I am also glad that this book stayed with just vampires, many books or series that start out about vampires start branching into other mythical creatures, such as werewolves or shape shifters. It was nice to see a book that stuck to just vampires, I'm curious to see if they can maintain that in the other books in the series. After reading this book I definitely want to start reading the other books in the series. And hearing that her writing only gets better I'm feeling very optimistic about them. I am very curious to see how the characters continue to develop.