Not necessarily. Anne Rice's literature is pretty pompous and overblown. LKH's is fast paced and mostly like a private detective novel with lots of sex and supernatural cheesiness thrown in. They are a fast, no brain power necessary, read. Kinda like supernatural romance novels except the heroine is definitly NOT helpless (in fact she LOVES her knives and guns, trusts THEM over the men in her life....and, in fact, often comes to the rescue of the men in her life....LOL!)