Derek Neveu’s Reviews > Interview with the Vampire > Status Update

Claudia’s maturation makes this narrative so interesting, but the fact that she is an adult Vampire stuck in a perpetually 5 year old frame brings an ick to this narrative that’s so hard to shake.

The introduction of the child vampire Claudia makes this text all the more dark and disturbing, and reading this once again as an adult (I think I read it last when I was like 12), Lestat’s choice of turning her and “giving” her to Louis as a trap and a way to imprison him by his side is so much more disturbing to me now then it was when I was a child myself.