1976
After the death of his brother, he felt guilty, and a vampire, Lestat, came to ease his pain. They didn�t get along however, and Louis wanted to leave him. Lestat then made another vampire, a little girl called Claudia, to make Louis stay. Since she had just been five years old when she was made a vampire, that was the shape she would live in forever, and she hated Lestat for it.
After some 60 years, she tried to kill him, drained him of his blood and threw him in the swamp. He returned, but after a fire, Claudia and Louis managed to escape to Europe, where they finally reached Paris. There they met a coven under the leading of Armand. Claudia knew that Armand wanted Louis, so she forced Louis to make her a new guardian, Madeleine.
After some time, the other vampires found out that Claudia had killed her maker, and she was punished with death. Some time later, Louis went back to America, where he claims to have met Lestat. Lestat had been there on Claudia�s trial, saying that yes, she had tried to kill him. He begged Louis to come back to him but Louis refused. They parted and that was the end of the story. But the book ends with Louis feeding from Daniel, leaving him on the floor. Daniel wakes up later and writes down the location where Louis had met Lestat for the last time.
It didn�t have the boring parts so many of Anne�s books have. Even if I have to confess that I sometimes get bored when Lestat isn�t around.
The covers to the book are just ones I like. The one up to the left is quite usual I think, but the others are just graphic novels. That one up to the left shows Louis holding a candle, the one under is Babette and Louis. Up to the right is Louis climbing a house in Paris and down to the right...Well, I�m not sure, as I said, I just happen to like it.
The Queen of the Damned
The Tale of the Body Thief
Memnoch the Devil
Pandora
The Vampire Armand