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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 contemporary gothic is what Secretary is to the modern chick-flick, for that reason. Except it’s gay.
Continuing from the earlier book in the Vampire Chronicles series, Memnoch the Devil; the reader takes a retrospective look of the existence of Armand – one of the key vampires in the series. If you have read the previous books, or lied and said you did but as a matter of fact just rented the Interview With a Vampire / Queen of the Damned films, you’ll positive that Armand is integral to the vampire coven, as he is one of the eldest vampires yet has the countenance of a girl. Oh and he likes to kill things and drink their blood, but that was a given.
The epic is simplistic, so what makes it so significant? The relationship between Armand and Marius starts off as something entirely 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 espy him a vampire. It might not sound sweet and lovely, but the secret is in the writing and all becomes rid when you read it.
Source: So So Gay