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‘The normalisation of BDSM relationships’ might be casually thrown about in descriptions of some stories, but The Vampire Armand is to the today's gothic is what Secretary is to the modern chick-flick, for that reason. Except it’s gay.
Continuing from the sometime book in the Vampire Chronicles series, Memnoch the Devil; the reader takes a retrospective look of the time of Armand – one of the key vampires in the series. If you have read the previous books, or lied and said you did but deep down just rented the Interview With a Vampire / Queen of the Damned films, you’ll discern that Armand is integral to the vampire coven, as he is one of the eldest vampires yet has the countenance of a juvenile. Oh and he likes to kill things and drink their blood, but that was a given.
The contention is simplistic, so what makes it so significant? The relationship between Armand and Marius starts off as something from head to toe simple – a man saving a boy from vicious sex-traders; but then moves into a sadomasochistic relationship that involves the boy forcing the man to walk away him a vampire. It might not sound sweet and lovely, but the secret is in the writing and all becomes jump over when you read it.
Source: So So Gay