This book is the first in the Vampire Chronicles series by Anne Rice. It is told through Louis’ perspective. Louis recounts his transformation into a vampire and his training by his maker, Lestat.
Louis is quite reluctant to accept his vampire nature at first, and contemplates good and evil; vampire and humanity throughout the novel.
Lestat forces him to feed on the innocent, and forces him to turn one of his victims into a vampire. Claudia, a young girl, and now a vampire, does not have the same qualms of good and evil. To Louis she is a child, while Lestat treats her as a vampire pupil, and he trains her to kill. Her thirst for blood overwhelms all else, and she becomes a vicious killer. Louis feels responsible and is trapped in this “family” that Lestat has created.
Claudia matures mentally quickly though, and she realizes that her body will never grow into a woman. She holds her eternal extreme youth against Lestat for turning her.
Claudia and Louis’ mutual hatred for Lestat leads them to abandon him and embark on a journey across Europe to find others like themselves, and find answers that were never answered by Lestat. They look for others to discover their origins, but what they find does not give them the answers that they desire, and actually puts them in grave danger.
The first vampire like creatures they find in Europe are revenants, somewhat like blood drinking zombies (my own words for the creatures that they called “vampires” but who were mindless). Finally they find civilized vampires in Paris, but these also do not know of the origin of vampires, despite claiming to be the oldest vampires that they know of. 
This book is full of lush description and Rice is well known for her lyrical writing style. Interview with the Vampire centers on the themes of immortality, good-and-evil, change, loss, sexuality and power.
The following movie clip is one of my favorite scenes, maybe because I believe Lestat’s account more than I believe Louis’. Lestat is the “bad guy” in Interview with the Vampire and while he is not portrayed as “good” in The Vampire Lestat, he is not the monster that Louis made him out to be.
Interview with the Vampire 