As the title says. I thoroughly enjoyed the ride but had a few things that stood out to me as either I missed something, or that were a wrinkle for me in the story's consistency. A lot can be left up to imagination, certainly, but some things felt unintentionally missing.
1: Elias has to "turn off" Jocke after biting him. Those he does not disconnect this way become infected, indicating that saliva as well as blood transmits the disease. Though the wound is made with a razor, Elias drinks directly from Tommy. How was Tommy not infected?
2: Elias sleeping in a bathtub full of blood raised a lot of questions. Where did the blood come from and what was it's purpose? Elias needed to consume relatively fresh blood, and there was nothing I found indicating either Hakan or Elias getting hold of so much, certainly not in a short time span as to be "fresh". So then was it Elias' from the wound in his back, or something similar to how he began emptying out when not invited into Oskar's apartment – like he rests in his own blood that seeps out him? If that was the case, it was all lost when Lacke ran it down the drain which seems would have left Elias severely weakened. And, did the wound in the back come from the fight with zombie Hakan? The other damage suffered in that scene seemed to be mostly correcting itself before Elias had even left the basement.
3: Probably the biggest, as it's a sizeable element of the story, why was Elias acting as a girl? What's more, how did he even come to be infected? The initial vampire – the royal pervert – had Elias castrated and bled from the wound into a bowl, drinking from that. How then was Elias infected? And, more complicated because I get the idea that, should anyone look down there it might be an easier explanation to start from the premise of being a girl. But given what Elias is capable of, who is going to be inspecting him to find out? And, anyone who was allowed/able to inspect would find exactly what Oskar saw, a flat nothing space with a scar. So then, what's the value of acting as though he's a girl, unless as a means of manipulation – which really doesn't work because Hakan liked little boys.
Thoughts? Opinions? I do try to be attentive in my reading, though can be distracted at times and able to miss details. Are any of these easily explained or am I raising similar questions now for others who read the book also?
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