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* ActionGirl: Merit is a great example of this. Later, Mallory joins her along with many other warrior women characters.
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Celina Navarre serves as this for the first few books until being killed by Merit.]]
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Mallory becomes this for two books when she's overwhelmed by her addiction to black magic.]]
* BigGood: Merit's grandfather, Chuck Merit, serves as this for the entire Chicago area as the Omnbudsman (basically the supernatural Chief of Police).
** [[spoiler: Ethan eventually becomes this for the supernaturals in America.]]
* BlueBlood: The Merits of Chicago are one of the city's richest families. Merit, by contrast, is a blue jeans and t-shirt sort of girl.
** Vampires are this themselves as they're all divided into noble houses led by vampires except for Rogues.
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Mallory becomes this for two books when she's overwhelmed by her addiction to black magic.]]
* BigGood: Merit's grandfather, Chuck Merit, serves as this for the entire Chicago area as the Omnbudsman (basically the supernatural Chief of Police).
** [[spoiler: Ethan eventually becomes this for the supernaturals in America.]]
* BlueBlood: The Merits of Chicago are one of the city's richest families. Merit, by contrast, is a blue jeans and t-shirt sort of girl.
** Vampires are this themselves as they're all divided into noble houses led by vampires except for Rogues.
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%% * BigBad: [[spoiler: Celina Navarre serves as this for the first few books until being killed by Merit.]]
%% * BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Mallory becomes this for two books when she's overwhelmed by her addiction to black magic.]]
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%% ** Merit's grandfather, Chuck Merit, serves as this for the entire Chicago area as the Omnbudsman (basically the supernatural Chief of Police).
%% ** [[spoiler: Ethan eventually becomes this for the supernaturals in America.]]
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** The Merits of Chicago are one of the city's richest families. Merit, by contrast, is a blue jeans and t-shirt sort of girl.
** Vampires are thisthemselves themselves, as they're all divided into noble houses led by vampires vampires, except for Rogues.
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%% ** Merit's grandfather, Chuck Merit, serves as this for the entire Chicago area as the Omnbudsman (basically the supernatural Chief of Police).
%% ** [[spoiler: Ethan eventually becomes this for the supernaturals in America.]]
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* CouncilOfVampires: The Greenwich Presidium are the rulers of the vampire houses.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Averted for the most part. The American Houses are theoretically allies and all of them are intensely loyal to their leaders. Played straight [[spoiler: once House Cadogan defects from the Greenwich Presedium.]]
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Averted for the most part. The American Houses are theoretically allies and all of them are intensely loyal to their leaders. Played straight [[spoiler: once House Cadogan defects from the Greenwich Presedium.]]
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%% * DeadlyDecadentCourt: Averted for the most part. The American Houses are theoretically allies and all of them are intensely loyal to their leaders. Played straight [[spoiler: once House Cadogan defects from the Greenwich Presedium.]]
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* TheDitz: The nymphs of Chicago all come off like this.
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* FantasticRacism: One of the chief conflicts of the setting is the people of Chicago gradually turn against the vampires of the city due to all the craziness which goes on around them. This includes riots, hate groups, and vampire hunters.
* FeudalFuture: More like Feudal Present with vampires operating via feudalism in the modern era.
* FeudalFuture: More like Feudal Present with vampires operating via feudalism in the modern era.
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* FantasticRacism: One of the chief conflicts of the setting is that the people of Chicago gradually turn against the vampires of the city city, due to all the craziness which goes on around them. This includes riots, hate groups, and vampire hunters.
* FeudalFuture: More like FeudalPresent Present, with vampires operating via feudalism in the modern era.
* FeudalFuture: More like Feudal
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* FunctionalMagic: An in-born gift in this universe and regulated by both shifters as well as the Order.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Celina.]]
** [[spoiler: Ethan Sullivan but it only lasts for a book before he's BackFromTheDead.]]
* ShoutOut: ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' gets a lot of nods.
** [[spoiler: Ethan Sullivan but it only lasts for a book before he's BackFromTheDead.]]
* ShoutOut: ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' gets a lot of nods.
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%% ** [[spoiler: Celina.]]
%% ** [[spoiler: Ethan Sullivan but it only lasts for a book before he's BackFromTheDead.]]
*ShoutOut: MagicalSensoryEffect: Different aromas are given off when magic is used. A vampire with the ability to MindRape people who appeared in the novel ''Dark Debt'' smelt like Whisky, as an example.
* ShoutOut:
** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' gets a lot of nods.
%% ** [[spoiler: Celina.]]
%% ** [[spoiler: Ethan Sullivan but it only lasts for a book before he's BackFromTheDead.]]
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** ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' gets a lot of nods.
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* HufflepuffHouse: House Grey serves as this for the first half of the series, not contributing anything to any of the stories. [[spoiiler: Averted when they join House Cadogan in rebelling against the GP.]]
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* HufflepuffHouse: House Grey serves as this for the first half of the series, not contributing anything to any of the stories. [[spoiiler: [[spoiler: Averted when they join House Cadogan in rebelling against the GP.]]
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* FeudalFuture: More like Feudal Present with vampires operating via feudalism in the modern era.
* FunctionalMagic: An in-born gift in this universe and regulated by both shifters as well as the Order.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ethan throws himself in front of a stake to save Merit and dies. He gets better, though.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Celina.]]
** [[spoiler: Ethan Sullivan but it only lasts for a book before he's BackFromTheDead.]]
** [[spoiler: Ethan Sullivan but it only lasts for a book before he's BackFromTheDead.]]
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** Ethan has never seen the Godfather, ''Film/TheGodfather'', which horrifies Merit.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can eat food (and derive great pleasure from it), they don't have to drink from living subjects, they're killed by sunlight, they're very fast, they're very strong, they can't change shape, only some of them can "glamour" people, and they live forever unless killed. Wooden stakes will kill them but a wooden bullet will also do it.
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[[caption-width-right:350: The Cadogan House has a new Sentinel.]]
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* TheDitz: The nymphs of Chicago all come off like this.
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* FoodPorn: Every book will spend a chapter or so describing Chicago fried food in loving detail, which the vampires of this universe can eat and enjoy without consequence.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Merit would prefer to be a grad student versus an immortal sexpot. [[spoiler: She eventually gets over it.]]
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** Ethan has never seen the Godfather, which horrifies Merit.
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* UngratefulBastard: Ethan Sullivan takes this attitude with Merit for awhile. While Merit blames him for turning her without her permission, Ethan points out she would be ''dead'' otherwise and that she's been given a great gift from his perspective. It informs a lot of their early tension.
* VampiresAreRich: House Cadogan certainly is. It's a Downplayed Trope example as while they do all live in an enormous mansion, it's more like a dorm and they get a comfortable but not ludicrous stipend.
* VampiresAreRich: House Cadogan certainly is. It's a Downplayed Trope example as while they do all live in an enormous mansion, it's more like a dorm and they get a comfortable but not ludicrous stipend.
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* BeautifulIsDumb: The nymphs are gorgeous, buxom, thin, and apparently none too bright.
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* AllMythsAreTrue: Certainly a lot of them with fairies, vampires, mages, and shifters.
* BeautifulIsDumb: The nymphs are gorgeous, buxom, thin, and apparently none too bright.
** Vampires are this themselves as they're all divided into noble houses led by vampires except for Rogues.
* CouncilOfVampires: The Greenwich Presidium are the rulers of the vampire houses.
* CouncilOfVampires: The Greenwich Presidium are the rulers of the vampire houses.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler: When Seth Tate is replaced, the next mayor proves to be a supernatural hating bigot.]]
* VampireMonarch: Every house is headed by a Master who rules over it as a king. Indeed, every vampire in them has to address them as "my liege." They are all under the Greewich Presidium, which is headed by a vampire council.
* VampireMonarch: Every house is headed by a Master who rules over it as a king. Indeed, every vampire in them has to address them as "my liege." They are all under the Greewich Presidium, which is headed by a vampire council.
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* WeirdTradeUnion: The Order, which heads up America's sorcerers, is explicitly a union rather than a ruling body. It primarily negotiates the services of sorcerers.
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* ActionGirl: Merit is a great example of this. Later, Mallory joins her along with many other warrior women characters.
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* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Mallory becomes this for two books when she's overwhelmed by her addiction to black magic.]]
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* HufflepuffHouse: House Grey serves as this for the first half of the series, not contributing anything to any of the stories. [[spoiiler: Averted when they join House Cadogan in rebelling against the GP.]]
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Chicagoland Vampires is a UrbanFantasy series by Chloe Neill that takes place in a world where vampires have come out to the public. Caroline Merit is a 28 year old graduate student who is savagely attacked by a vampire on the university grounds, only to have an EmergencyTransformation by 400-year-old vampire lord Ethan Sullivan.
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The Chicagoland Vampires is a UrbanFantasy series by Chloe Neill that takes place in a world where vampires have come out to the public. Caroline Merit is a 28 year old graduate student who is savagely attacked by a vampire on the university grounds, only to have an EmergencyTransformation by 400-year-old vampire lord Ethan Sullivan.
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* TheBeautifulElite: All non-Rogue vampires are selected for beauty, wealth, and talent. The vampire race can afford to be choosy with immortality.
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* EmergencyTransformation: Merit had her throat torn out and had to be transformed into a vampire to save her life.
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Chicagoland Vampires is a UrbanFantasy series by Chloe Neill that takes place in a world where vampires have come out to the public. Caroline Merit is a 28 year old graduate student who is savagely attacked by a vampire on the university grounds, only to have an EmergencyTransformation by 400-year-old VampireLord vampire lord Ethan Sullivan.
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Chicagoland Vampires is a UrbanFantasy series by Chloe Neill that takes place in a world where vampires have come out to the public. Caroline Merit is a 28 year old graduate student who is savagely attacked by a vampire on the university grounds, only to have an EmergencyTransformation by 400-year-old VampireLord Ethan Sullivan.
Less than pleased at having her life upended by the handsome aristocract, Merit still finds herself developing into an extremely capable vampire warrior. She is soon named Sentinel of House Cadogan, one of the twelve noble houses of the American vampire nation. What follows is a struggle to integrate vampires (and other supernaturals) into the rest of the world while constantly dealing with those who would destroy them.
The series contains the following volumes:
* ''Some Girls Bite'' (2009)
* ''Friday Night Bites'' (2009)
* ''Twice Bitten'' (2010)
* ''Hard Bitten'' (2011)
* ''Drink Deep'' (2011)
* ''Biting Cold'' (2012)
* ''House Rules'' (2013)
* ''Biting Bad'' (2013)
* ''Wild Things'' (2014)
* ''Blood Games'' (2014)
* ''Dark Debt'' (2015)
* ''Midnight Marked'' (2016)
* ''Blade Bound'' (2017)
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This series contains the following tropes:
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Celina Navarre serves as this for the first few books until being killed by Merit.]]
* BigGood: Merit's grandfather, Chuck Merit, serves as this for the entire Chicago area as the Omnbudsman (basically the supernatural Chief of Police).
** [[spoiler: Ethan eventually becomes this for the supernaturals in America.]]
* BlueBlood: The Merits of Chicago are one of the city's richest families. Merit, by contrast, is a blue jeans and t-shirt sort of girl.
* DerailingLoveInterests: [[spoiler: Morgan continually sides with Celina against Merit until he is dumped by her.]]
* FantasticRacism: One of the chief conflicts of the setting is the people of Chicago gradually turn against the vampires of the city due to all the craziness which goes on around them. This includes riots, hate groups, and vampire hunters.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Some of the friendliest in fiction. They drink artificial blood, don't need to kill to feed, cannot turn unless they have permission, and don't have mind-control powers or a HorrorHunger. Indeed, most vampires don't even drink blood from humans.
* FurAgainstFang: A DownplayedTrope example. Shifters don't like vampires and vice versa. Averted in later books after they form an alliance.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Despite being a European house, House Cadogan and the other vampire houses use katana.
* SlapSlapKiss: This is how Merit an Ethan's relationship develops.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: A number of these are practiced against the vampires of Chicago.
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Less than pleased at having her life upended by the handsome aristocract, Merit still finds herself developing into an extremely capable vampire warrior. She is soon named Sentinel of House Cadogan, one of the twelve noble houses of the American vampire nation. What follows is a struggle to integrate vampires (and other supernaturals) into the rest of the world while constantly dealing with those who would destroy them.
The series contains the following volumes:
* ''Some Girls Bite'' (2009)
* ''Friday Night Bites'' (2009)
* ''Twice Bitten'' (2010)
* ''Hard Bitten'' (2011)
* ''Drink Deep'' (2011)
* ''Biting Cold'' (2012)
* ''House Rules'' (2013)
* ''Biting Bad'' (2013)
* ''Wild Things'' (2014)
* ''Blood Games'' (2014)
* ''Dark Debt'' (2015)
* ''Midnight Marked'' (2016)
* ''Blade Bound'' (2017)
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This series contains the following tropes:
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Celina Navarre serves as this for the first few books until being killed by Merit.]]
* BigGood: Merit's grandfather, Chuck Merit, serves as this for the entire Chicago area as the Omnbudsman (basically the supernatural Chief of Police).
** [[spoiler: Ethan eventually becomes this for the supernaturals in America.]]
* BlueBlood: The Merits of Chicago are one of the city's richest families. Merit, by contrast, is a blue jeans and t-shirt sort of girl.
* DerailingLoveInterests: [[spoiler: Morgan continually sides with Celina against Merit until he is dumped by her.]]
* FantasticRacism: One of the chief conflicts of the setting is the people of Chicago gradually turn against the vampires of the city due to all the craziness which goes on around them. This includes riots, hate groups, and vampire hunters.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Some of the friendliest in fiction. They drink artificial blood, don't need to kill to feed, cannot turn unless they have permission, and don't have mind-control powers or a HorrorHunger. Indeed, most vampires don't even drink blood from humans.
* FurAgainstFang: A DownplayedTrope example. Shifters don't like vampires and vice versa. Averted in later books after they form an alliance.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Despite being a European house, House Cadogan and the other vampire houses use katana.
* SlapSlapKiss: This is how Merit an Ethan's relationship develops.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: A number of these are practiced against the vampires of Chicago.
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