The author's name does ring a bell with me. I looked Vampire Chronicles up and I know I've heard of Interview with the Vampire (it was the first title on the Vampire Chronicles list I saw.)... I'd been meaning to check out some of her work... I just had not gotten around to it yet. I did see Queen of the Damned the movie. I assume the movie is based off the Vampire Chronicles novel with the same title because the second novel has the name Lestat in the title which is the name of the male main character in the movie Queen of the Damned (the movie was okay... but I'm sure the book is better... ) I'll check it out.
In general when I read romance, most of what I read is not innocent platonic love. However, that is not to say that I haven't read and enjoyed novels that didn't have any sex or implication of sex in them and I don't like it when it goes overboard. What matters most to me is the plot. (I'm sure that's the case with most people who read a lot though.)
the queen of the dammed film is,,,,,
if veiwed as a film in it own right and forgetting about the books , a good couple hours of entertainment
if viewed as an addiontion to the books , a compleat debarkle its terrible
queen of the dammed is the 3rd book in the series the series order is :
Interview with the Vampire (1976)
The Vampire Lestat (1985)
The Queen of the Damned (1988)
The Tale of the Body Thief (1992)
Memnoch the Devil (1995)
The Vampire Armand (1998)
Merrick (2000)
Blood and Gold (2001)
Blackwood Farm (2002)
Blood Canticle (2003)
Prince Lestat (2014)
Blood Paradise (Forthcoming)
and theres also
Pandora (1998)
Vittorio the Vampire (1999)
witch are more stand alone
shes also done another series called Lives of the Mayfair Witches
witch has tie-in to the chronicles towards the end
anne rice has a fairly romantic writing style and the romance between some of the vampires is quite deep and profound
the books for that would be pandore , armand, and to some degree marius bloood and gold
oh and also vittorio
tbh vittorio was one of my fav's especcialy the part with vittorio falling in love , hope that isnt a big spoiler
just found a vid on youtube of annerice talking about vitorio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtiJsSPM2YE
anyway hope that helps
grendel
nb almost forgot
the necroscope books by brian lumbley
they are gory vampire horror unlike the romanticised vampire's in the chronicles
i nvr managed to read them all as they where kinda hard to get hold of but the 6 or 7 i did read had no person to person romance tho i do remember a sex scene in one of the later ones between 2 wampyr
the wampyr are a parasite sybiote slug that joins with whatever life form it can find and it has shape shifting powers
the wampyr sex scene basicly consists of one being inside the other !! nothing unusual there right , wrong
thjey rly mean inside the other like totaly inside, his whole body inside hers , it rly was kinda freaky , it is certainly not erotica