Vampire, Love Thyself: Lucy Undying by Kiersten White
TW: Family trauma, repressing sexuality, misogyny, and lots and lots of blood. Everyone knows the story of Dracula. We know how he stalks Mina, the beloved fiancée of his solicitor Jonathan Harker. In the process, the vampire turns Mina’s supposed best friend, Lucy Westenra, before turning his attentions back to her. Lucy was such a small role in the original tale. She was a whimsical, flirtatious girl, just blossoming into her own. At least, that’s what we see. Who was Lucy, really? What would happen if vampires were real and Dracula was not just a story from a man whose love for Walt Whitman bordered on repressed homosexuality? (Seriously, read his letters to Whitman - it makes you wonder.) Welcome to Lucy Undying: A Dracula Story by Kiersten White. Photo borrowed from BookTrib Sixteen-year-old Lucy is a beautiful young girl who is still learning her own heart. She is madly in love with her former governess, Mina, but she is forced to bury those feelings. Her mother ...