The Hawkline Monster Part 2

"The shadow wished that it could look out underneath the door to see what was happening, but, alas, its role in life was only to follow and so it detailed itself right behind the ass of the Hawkline Monster."

The shadow of the monster is my favorite character in this book. While he is associated with that which is bad, the shadow possesses a strong desire to reverse the situation, and try to improve the lives of the Hawkline sisters. He spends most of the book thinking about how much he'd like to stop the Hawlkine Monster, but not being able to do so. At the end, he sacrifices his current life to slow the monster down enough that Cameron and Greer can kill it, which, to me, makes it the hero of the novel.