Quarter 1 SSR: Interview With the Vampire

For my quarter one SSR book, I chose Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice. This novel falls under the fantasy-drama fiction category, and has up to 340 pages.
This novel is about Louis, who was born in 1791, and became a vampire at twenty-five. Throughout the book, Louis is being interviewed which technically takes place when the book was published, the mid-70s. Louis begins his story with some faint memories of his young childish years on his family plantation de Pointe du Lac, Louisiana.  He hits a depression once turning twenty-five after the death of his brother, that's when the vampire Lestat bombarded him in the street, transforming him into a vampire. Louis expressed to the interviewer that becoming a killing machine from Lestat is far more worse than death. Lestat was a mischievous vampire who caught prostitutes, and those who deeply disobeyed him. He would always kill for fun, but Louis never stood by it. Within about five years of being a vampire, Louis sees a distressed little girl hovering over her dying mother. Louis was on a rat-diet since he refused to kill humans, but rats aren't enough for a vampire; as starving as he was he bit the little girl to death. However, Lestat notices she wasn't fully dead and accidentally bites again, turning the five year old girl, Claudia into a full vampire. Lestat and Louis were considered her fathers, but as time went on, Claudia becomes a woman trapped in a five year old body.
The entire interview speaks of Louis and Claudia's journey from that point on. Anne Rice crafted a great beginning to her vampire chronicles with this novel. Her writing is poetic when it comes to Louis's parts of speech. There weren't many major plot points that become predictable since this story has more to it than the 1994 film featuring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. This is the first time I am saying this, but this book is better than the movie. Personally I saw the movie many times then I stumbled upon the novel at a Barns and Noble. Visually it benefits me, watching the film before reading because it is easier to point out the films flaws compared to the book.
If I were to change something in this novel, it would be Claudia's age, or erase the love she had for Louis. At least Louis wasn't some pedophile who agreed to the relationship in which Claudia begged for, then again she was of age. As a reader, it just sounds wrong, Louis treated Claudia like his daughter but he needed an intimate partner who is an equal in height or age (the age when she became a vampire). Either way Claudia was a plot twist, if Claudia was eighteen or twenty this could've been too relevant to twilight. Louis was a nice character though and it is depressing to hear how much he wanted someone but had to let Claudia go.