To be honest, I have a love/hate relationship with Anne Rice's writing. Sometimes she just annoys the crap out of me, other times I like nothing better than to sit down with one of her books. I suspect that it's different if you're from New Orleans and you know the places that she writes about first hand. There are times that I've been in the French Quarter late at night and you get just the right mixtures of gas light and fog, and you can almost expect to see Lestat walk out of the fog. If nothing else, she does New Orleans very well.
I loved
Interview when it first came out, but I find Louis such a whiney bore at this point that I hate the book now. I always enjoy
The Vampire Lestat and
Queen of the Damned, but didn't like the further installments very much. I really loved
Blood and Gold, but that was mostly because Marius has always been my favorite of her vampires.