Lost in harmony
Funniest thing about Quincy shooting the bat and breaking the window is that he confesses that he's been shooting every goddamn bat he's seen over the past few days.
There's a missing part of this novel that's just the notes of a very concerned conservationist and local police records detailing how they teamed up to find out who's been shooting all these bats in the middle of the night.
Is she Lucy Westenra, or is she just a vessel for the writer's barely disguised fantasy of a women being punished for her promiscuity? Is she really"Bram Stoker's" Lucy Westenra: a naive, innocent 19 year old, with a cheery personality and a bright future ahead of her? Or has the writer instead just slapped her name on an OC that behaves nothing like her, and- with none of the grace or decorum that Lucy's tragically short story deserves- sexualized her slow and agonising death as much as possible, whilst very unsubtly doing their best to blame her for being murdered, so that we won't object to her being killed again later in an even more gruesome and sexual manner?