History Literature / DenOfShadows

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: So many that most books don't share any characters with any other books at all!

* StaticCharacter: Caryn Smoke hasn't changed at all in any of her appearances.
** Also, Fala.

* DynamicCharacter: Rachel, Aubrey, and Dominique all qualify.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Most books in the series have almost nothing to do with the other books, the only exceptions being ''Shattered Mirror'' and ''All Just Glass''.

* NotSoDifferent: ''Shattered Mirror.'' Dear lord, ''Shattered Mirror''. This book establishes that this applies to witches and vampires and [[{{Anvilicious}} doesn't let you forget it]]. This applies to ''All Just Glass'', too.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass[=/=]DareToBeBadass: Risika.

* TokenMinority: Nathaniel, who is AmbiguouslyBrown.

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Aubrey to Jessica in ''Demon in my View'', although it didn't start out this way.]]

* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Sarah and Christopher]].

* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: This applies to Sarah and Kristopher in ''Shattered Mirror'', until Sarah gets turned into a vampire.]]

** Ravyn is a side character in ''Midnight Predator'' and makes an appearance in Poison Tree.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Nathaniel is described simply as "dark-skinned", with no real detail given.

* BattleCouple: Adia and Zachary are said to be one, although we never see it.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The cover of ''Midnight Predator''. It's probably supposed to be Turquoise standing in front of the entrance to Midnight, but it's described completely differently in the book. Not to mention that Turquoise appears to be naked. We have no comment on that.
** This applies to the cover of ''Shattered Mirror'' as well, albeit to a much lesser extent. It's probably supposed to be a drawing that Nikolas gave to Sarah. The only problem is that in the actual drawing, the two people were standing back to back, not side by side.

* FirstKiss: [[spoiler: Aubrey, for Jessica, and possibly the other way around.]]

* AlienBlood: Witches blood is intoxicating to vampires, which becomes a plot point when [[spoiler: Sarah attempts suicide by going to Dominique's house and she ends up sucking Adia's blood.]]

** Of course, there is some question as to [[GrayAndWhiteMorality whether or not Jaguar counts as evil.]] Yes, he was running Midnight, which is basically a command center for the slave trade, but he is much less harsh than other slave owners, and he ends up helping Turquoise more than he harms her.

* GrayAndWhiteMorality: Risika is definitely good, but Aubrey is more of an AntiVillain. The same thing applies to Turquoise and Jaguar in ''Midnight Predator'', although it's zigzagged somewhat in that Lord Daryl (and probably Jeshickah) really are evil.

* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: One of the major elements of ''All Just Glass'' is what would happen if RomeoAndJuliet opened their coffins, came back to life, and said, "Now what?"

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* YourVampiresSuck: Averted in ''Demon in my View''. In fact, it probably would've turned out better for Jessica if her vampire sucked - instead, they were so accurate that vampires tried to kill her for releasing personal information about their lives without permission.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: After Sarah is turned into a vampire, Dominique refuses to exist that Sarah still exists, and wants to kill "the creature that replaced her".]]

* [[spoiler: DeathByGenreSavviness: Jessica gets turned into a vampire (a form of dying) due to her being so GenreSavvy that she released books accurately chronicling the lives of vampires without their permission.]]

** WorldOfActionGirls: Almost all of the women are some form of {{Badass}}, even if it's just a BadassPacifist (Caryn), or an ActionSurvivor (Jessica). The only two exceptions are Nissa and Erin.

* {{Badass}}: This being a series about vampires and their hunters, there are tons. Just a few: Sarah, Turquoise, Ravyn, Aubrey, Adia, Jay, Dominique, and Zachary. And, of course, plenty of sub tropes apply as well:
** BadassCrew: The organization that Turquoise and Ravyn belong to.
** BadassFamily: The Vida line.
** BadassMindsThinkAlike: Played with in ''Midnight Predator'' with Turquoise and Ravyn; they never make any plans before going into battle, but they're only somewhat successful at first, and [[spoiler: they never kill Jeshickah together.]]
** BadassNormal: Turquoise and Ravyn.
** BadassPacifist: Caryn
** WorldOfBadass

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Jessica. [[spoiler: It helps her kill Fala.]]

* ShownTheirWork: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes got a degree in psychology during the KieshaRa period, and it really shows in ''Persistence of Memory'' and ''Token of Darkness''.

* TheGoodWitch: Pretty much all the witches who support Single Earth.

->"As she looks down upon [[GrowingUpSucks a shattered youth.]]
->A [[TitleDrop shattered mirror]] shows a shattered truth."

* ''[[LiteraryAllusionTitle In the Forests of the Night]]'' (1999)

* ''[[AntagonistTitle Midnight]] [[NonAppearingTitle Predator]]'' (2002)
* ''[[TheXOfY Persistance of Memory]]'' (2008)

* FightForYourLife: The more powerful you fight while you're being turned into a vampire, the more powerful you are as a vampire.

* ''Literature/Demon in My View'' (2000)

* ''Demon in My View'' (2000)