Random reading thoughts

[korafox]

Disclaimer: I've never read Interview with the Vampire before, nor did I know anything much about it.  Besides, of course, that it contained vampires, and likely sexy ones at that (based on some rather, *ahem*, interesting fanart that I've run across on the internet).  So in my quest to read new books this year, I picked it up thinking it would be a nice bit of fluff reading (yes, the prominence of the Twilight books currently has me in the mindset of vampires=cheese) to give me a break from the heavier stuff.  (Aside: The last two books I read were a Stephen King novel and Ice Song, which had parts that just stunned me as the sort of thing I'd expect to see written by de Sade.)

So I was surprised, albeit pleasantly, once I actually got into it to find a much darker and gripping story than I had expected.  It's almost Victorian in style, which makes sense given the narrator.  And honestly, I'm glad I didn't get around to reading this before now, because I think teen-me wouldn't have gotten nearly as much out of it.  I'm halfway through it now and completely absorbed in poor Louis' story.

Edit like a year later when I saw this again:
The second half of the book was crap.  *sigh*