Thank you for your very thorough mini-review. I grant all of your points. I generally avoid vampire and monster stories myself. But Empress Raina I, AKA Inna -- who is of distant Russian extraction, although at this late date such things hardly matter -- is an aborted incarnation of the Demiourgos, the insatiable god dreaded by the Gnostics. It is her nature to receive sacrifices, and her appetite for them follows her like a shadow, even on happy days. Yet she has a human soul, and knows love, pain and regret. Oskar may yet survive her embrace. But I can guarantee that he will be changed.
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