Interview with the Vampire: Claudia's Story

The sepia-toned art with its fine details (in their dress, in the furniture) and the startling streaks of blood-red makes this book an exquisite read even after the excitement of the first reading. Witter does a good adaptation of the novel from Claudia's viewpoint; her use of language, poetic and poignant, matches perfectly with Rice's in the original. It is beautiful on its own, but as a complement and counterpart to Interview, seeing things in Claudia's perspective brings us as readers closer to her suffering (which in the novel was only narrated where it was revealed to Louis) and her vision of the world and her experience of the events readers of the novel would already be familiar with. It really adds colour and nuance to the narrative as it adds a voice to it. This book deviates very little from the novel but having come to it desiring nothing more than the story told without creative attempts at twisting it, it was a blessing to find it so faithful. I especially loved the expressions on their faces - these were, I thought, very sensitively drawn and displays the vampires' capacity for complex, deep emotions. (Admittedly I was most indulged by Louis looking troubled and agonised - which was almost all the time. His hairstyle departs from the film's, which brings this book closer to the novel rather than the former, but it suits him far better. I count being granted Louis' and Armand's beautiful selves - visually, at last! - as a definite boon.) This is the graphic novel translation of the novel I have been looking for.

Gorgeous book, gorgeous illustrations and a gorgeous story.