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* ObliviousMockery: Mrs Galloway tells Virgil how great it is he lives independently and says that people who live in retirement homes leech from the system. Javier points out that he lives in a retirement home and she immediately starts back pedaling and saying it's wonderful.
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* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: Ronnie gets annoyed at Kelly for asking Amber what she's in (jail) for because he'd always wanted to say it.


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* OnePhoneCall: Ronnie asks about it when he and Kelly get arrested but the officer says it's too late and the chief will talk to them in the morning.
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* FlippingTheBird: Amber attempts it to The Hounds of Hell through the town barrier but ends up waving her bandaged hand at them instead.
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* BlackComedyRape: Warrick gets the information he wants out of Ricky by threatening to let Two hump his face.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Fairly standard. They drink blood, are allergic to sunlight and fear crosses. Their leader Varga at least and can turn into smoke and a giant wolf

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Fairly standard. They drink blood, are allergic to sunlight and fear crosses. Their leader Varga at least and can turn into smoke and a giant wolfwolf.
* PainfulTransformation: Shifting into a demon hurts the first few times Amber does it.



* CriminalDoppelganger: The man who killed Virgil's neighbour, Snyder looks like a young version of his old colleague, Javier.



* PowerIncontinence: In Desolation, Amber and Milo have to constantly concentrate to stop from shifting into their demon forms.



* RejectedApology: Virgil rings an old colleague who's still sore about Virgil giving him the nickname, Goat-molester 40 years ago and won't accept his apology.

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* RejectedApology: Virgil rings an old colleague Javier who's still sore about Virgil giving him the nickname, Goat-molester 40 years ago and won't accept his apology.

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* CutHimselfShaving: Amber tells a man in a diner that she broke her fingers by slamming both hands in a car door.



* HealingFactor: Milo says Amber's fingers should heal in a couple days if she stays in her demon form.



* RejectedApology: Virgil rings an old colleague who's still sore about Virgil giving him the nickname, Goat-molester 40 years ago and won't accept his apology.




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* VampireVarietyPack: There's said to be multiple breeds if vampire. Most of which are pack animals, implying others aren't.
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* TheInternetIsForPorn: Kenneth the motel clerk says they do t have a website because his mother told him it's only for lerverts who want to use it for porn.
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* RearWindowWitness: Virgil looks out his window and sees his neighbour getting murdered and the cops hiding the body.

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* AnimateDead: Mauk can resurrect his victims as zombie slaves.



* {{Fingore}};
** Mauk breaks all Amber's fingers with a hammer to stop her clawing him.
** As per usual, Amber bites the fingers off a waitress but given that she's one of Mauk's zombies, she doesn't feel it.



* AnimateDead: Mauk can resurrect his victims as zombie slaves.



* {{Fingore}};
** Mauk breaks all Amber's fingers with a hammer to stop her clawing him.
** As per usual, Amber bites the fingers off a waitress but given that she's one of Mauk's zombies, she doesn't feel it.
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* AnimateDead: Mauk can resurrect his victims as zombie slaves.


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* {{Fingore}};
** Mauk breaks all Amber's fingers with a hammer to stop her clawing him.
** As per usual, Amber bites the fingers off a waitress but given that she's one of Mauk's zombies, she doesn't feel it.
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** The Shining Demon's representative can turn into a 10 foot tall shark-man.
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* SummoningRitual: Played straight when Amber's parents would summon the Shining Demon but he later changed thing so that the summoner gets teleported to his castle.

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** Milo doesn't need to eat while driving the charger

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** Milo doesn't need to eat while driving the chargercharger.
* NestedMouths: When the Shining Demon's representative [[spoiler:transforms, he reveals a second mouth inside his original that is just a huge hole lined with curved teeth.]]
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* BloodMagic: When the demons eat their children, a representative of the Shining Demon shows up with six scalpels and jars so each demon can give him a jar of blood.


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* {{Fingore}}: Amber bites the finger off Brandon when he attacks her. She later does it to [[spoiler:Alistair.]]


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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Imelda acknowledges this trope saying that she deserves to die for all the children she's killed. [[spoiler:When Amber offers her life to save her, Imelda immediately kills herself so the demons will eat her instead of Amber.]]

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* NonActionGuy: Milo has no fighting ability and Edgar's first reaction is to hide behind the sofa when a fight starts.

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* NonActionGuy: Milo Glen has no fighting ability and Edgar's first reaction is to hide behind the sofa when a fight starts.


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* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Alastair offers Amber a chance to take Imelda's place as his mate and sacrifice their own future children.]]
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Edgar badly wants the Shining Demon to grant him power [[spoiler:and has been killing young women for years in hopes he'll take them as sacrifices.]]


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* NonActionGuy: Milo has no fighting ability and Edgar's first reaction is to hide behind the sofa when a fight starts.
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* SoulEating: Demons get more powerful by eating souls. Gregory Bruxton realized he could get stronger and avoid detection from the Shining Demon by eating the souls himself instead of passing them on to [=SD=].
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* SternChase: The entire book is Amber being chased across America by her parents.
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* CarvedMark: Amber threatens to carve the word "Troll" onto the forehead if a street thug who calls her that but ends up not going through with it after scratching him once.
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** The hideous [[{{Treant}} Treants]] witch [[spoiler:is in love with Jacob.]]

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** The hideous [[{{Treant}} Treants]] [[{{Treants}} Treant]] witch [[spoiler:is in love with Jacob.]]
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* AbhorrentAdmrirer;
** The hideous {{Treant}} witch [[spoiler:is in love with Jacob.]]

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* AbhorrentAdmrirer;
AbhorrentAdmirer;
** The hideous {{Treant}} [[{{Treant}} Treants]] witch [[spoiler:is in love with Jacob.]]
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* AmnesiacHero: Milo [[spoiler:woke up in a motel one day with the charger parked outside and no idea who he was.]]

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* AbhorrentAdmrirer;
** The hideous {{Treant}} witch [[spoiler:is in love with Jacob.]]



* BaldOfEvil: Gregory's demon form is bald.



* DemonOfHumanOrigin: The demons were humans who got the ability to transform after making a DealWithTheDevil.



* InLoveWithTheMark: The Witch [[spoiler:was sent to torment Jacob but ended up falling in love with him.]] One of her captives realizes this when she says her sniper brother grew attached to his targets after a few days and found it hard to shoot them.



** Gregory is a winged, grey-skinned variant of the demon type with a ring of crown-like protrusions on his head instead of two big horns.



* PossessionBurnout: The Witch tries to possess women by filling them with her branches but this quickly tears them apart. She thinks Amber's demon body might be able to handle it though.



* VainSorceress: The Witch is kidnapping women [[spoiler:and filling their bodies with her branches, hoping to take over them so Jacob will love her back.]]



* WalkingSpoiler: Milo

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* WalkingSpoiler: MiloMilo.
* WingedHumanoid: Gregory's demon form has two huge bat-like wings.
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* {{Treeants}}: The witch plaguing Jacob is basically a humanoid tree monster.

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* {{Treeants}}: {{Treants}}: The witch plaguing Jacob is basically a humanoid tree monster.
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* {Treeants}: The witch plaguing Jacob is basically a humanoid tree monster.

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* {Treeants}: {{Treeants}}: The witch plaguing Jacob is basically a humanoid tree monster.
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* {Treeants}: The witch plaguing Jacob is basically a humanoid tree monster.

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* PortalDoor: Dacre Shanks has a magic key that can link any door to the interior of his dollhouses. Anyone the goes through will shrink.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Fairly standard. They drink blood, are allergic to sunlight and fear crosses. Their leader Varga at least and can turn into smoke and a giant wolf
* PortalDoor: Dacre Shanks has a magic key that can link any door to the interior of his dollhouses. Anyone the goes through will shrink. Shanks claims he can use the key to travel from a doorway to any other doorway but only he can control where, even if someone else is using the key.




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* YouRemindMeOfX: After saving her from Varga, Betty says Amber reminds her of her own mother.
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* HumansAreInsects: Well, demons are insects. When Amber's parents and the crew go against Varga, he says they are insects to him.
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* HolyBurnsEvil: Vampires are terrified of crosses. Amber briefly worries about stepping into a church but nothing happens.


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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Varga refuses to hand Amber over to her parents because he believes anyone who spills his childrens' blood is his to kill.
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* VampiresSleepInCoffins: Rosalie sleeps in one and (chained in the basement) Caleb implies that sleeping in the ground would be an acceptable alternative.

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