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The ''Sonja Blue'' series is a set of five novels and one collection of short stories by Creator/NancyACollins. The first book, ''Sunglasses After Dark'', won the UsefulNotes/BramStokerAward for best horror novel of the year. The series was supposed to be complete after the first three were finished, but game publisher Creator/WhiteWolf persuaded Collins to write ''A Dozen Black Roses'', a {{crossover}} novel which put Blue in the world of their ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' role-playing game series. From this point on, the continuity of the series became a bit vague.
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The ''Sonja Blue'' series is a set of five novels and one collection of short stories by Creator/NancyACollins. The first book, ''Sunglasses After Dark'', won the UsefulNotes/BramStokerAward MediaNotes/BramStokerAward for best horror novel of the year. The series was supposed to be complete after the first three were finished, but game publisher Creator/WhiteWolf persuaded Collins to write ''A Dozen Black Roses'', a {{crossover}} novel which put Blue in the world of their ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' role-playing game series. From this point on, the continuity of the series became a bit vague.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: Esher helped influence the writing of Edgar Allan Poe with Roderick Usher, Prince Prospero, and other characters based on him.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Nikola is mind-controlled and drugged into being Esher's bride as well as abandoning her son.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Nikola is mind-controlled and drugged into being Esher's bride as well as abandoning her son.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Lord Sinjon is burned to death while he begs for his life.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Decima is a beautiful punk vampire that serves as TheDragon to Esher.
* EvilCounterpart: Decima is a beautiful punk vampire that serves as TheDragon to Esher.
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* UpdatedReRelease: ''A Dozen Black Roses'' was originally set in the World of Darkness but was re-written without the World of Darkness elements.
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** ''Tender Tigers'' (2015, Short Story)
* BigBad: Lord Esher is a wizard-vampire who wants to take over Deadtown.
* PaedoHunt:
** Lord Sinjon keeps an enslaved young boy as his SexSlave. He was also similarly abused as a cabin boy.
** Father Eamon beat a pedophile priest to death after he found him raping and murdering a child.
** Lord Sinjon keeps an enslaved young boy as his SexSlave. He was also similarly abused as a cabin boy.
** Father Eamon beat a pedophile priest to death after he found him raping and murdering a child.
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* ''Dead Roses for a Blue Lady'' (2002, collection)
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* ''Dead Roses for a Blue Lady'' (2002, collection)omnibus books 1-3)
** ''Cold Turkey'' (2011, Novella)
** ''Search and Destroy''' (2011, Short Story)
** ''Some Velvet Morning'' (2012, Short Story)
** ''Vampire King of the Goth Chicks'' (2012, Short Story)
** ''Cold Turkey'' (2011, Novella)
** ''Search and Destroy''' (2011, Short Story)
** ''Some Velvet Morning'' (2012, Short Story)
** ''Vampire King of the Goth Chicks'' (2012, Short Story)
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* {{Crossover}}: ''A Dozen Black Roses'' was a crossover with the game ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''. It introduced some continuity issues with the main series, but these were mostly glossed over or ignored.
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* {{Crossover}}: ''A Dozen Black Roses'' was a crossover with the game ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness''. It introduced some continuity issues with the main series, but these were mostly glossed over or ignored. Later, it would be republished with no connection to the World of Darkness and extensive rewrites.
* WretchedHive: Deadtown is a slum within Detroit where vampires prey freely, poverty is at an all time high, and violence is a way of life.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Sonja removes all of Palmer's memories of Lethe. This proves to be NotQuiteTheRightThing as he no longer wants anything to do with her.]]
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Jacob Thorne never bothered to contemplate that his wife's religion might be true (or there was more to death than CessationOfExistence) even though his daughter is a vampire who regularly deals with ghosts. At least until his daughter points this out.
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Pangloss [[spoiler: becomes a Seraph after he dies.]]
* BigBad: Morgan is now obsessed with Sonja and wants to destroy her or win her over.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Doctor Pangloss is dead. Morgan is dead. Lethe is dead. Palmer has found a SecondLove and never wants to see her again. A plan has begun to give all of humanity back their innate PsychicPowers the Pretenders stole from them. Sonja is free to do whatever she wants.]]
* ChangelingTale: Lethe leaves many of her illegitimate children with families whose babies died in the middle of the night.
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Sonja Blue finally kills Morgan and frees herself of her sire's control by merging the Other, Denise Thorn, and herself into one single personality.]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: Sonja becomes this after both the death of Judd as well as her driving Palmer away.
* LoveCannotOvercome: Happens to Sonja twice during the book.
** Sonja falls in love with a NiceGuy named Judd in New Orleans [[spoiler: and ends up killing him alongside his girlfriend.]]
** Sonja ends up breaking up with Palmer when she can't share what she did with Judd and closes herself off from him.
* LoveCannotOvercome: Sonja's secrecy and resentment of Palmer growing older results in them breaking up.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Morgan believes this and believes only by killing Sonja can he purge himself of his obsession with her.
* RapidAging: Lethe undergoes this after her metamorphisis and turns from a toddler to an adult woman.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Morgan has taken to forcing prostitutes to act like Sonja Blue so he can get a sexual thrill out of killing them.
* SecondLove: After Palmer [[spoiler: breaks up with Sonja, he ends up married to a local woman.]]
* SeriesFauxnale: This was meant to be the end of the series and resolves most of the major issues but subsequent books were added to it.
* ShortLivedOrganism: Lethe turns out to be this as the half-vampire rapidly goes from being an infant to a young woman to a crone that dies of old age within the span of a few years.
* VillainousCrush: Almost dying at Sonja's hands has resulted in Morgan becoming obsessed with her.
* WeaksauceWeakness: It turns out elder Pretenders eventually die of boredom. [[spoiler: Which turns them into Seraphs.]]
* BigBad: Morgan is now obsessed with Sonja and wants to destroy her or win her over.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Doctor Pangloss is dead. Morgan is dead. Lethe is dead. Palmer has found a SecondLove and never wants to see her again. A plan has begun to give all of humanity back their innate PsychicPowers the Pretenders stole from them. Sonja is free to do whatever she wants.]]
* ChangelingTale: Lethe leaves many of her illegitimate children with families whose babies died in the middle of the night.
* FusionDance: [[spoiler: Sonja Blue finally kills Morgan and frees herself of her sire's control by merging the Other, Denise Thorn, and herself into one single personality.]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: Sonja becomes this after both the death of Judd as well as her driving Palmer away.
* LoveCannotOvercome: Happens to Sonja twice during the book.
** Sonja falls in love with a NiceGuy named Judd in New Orleans [[spoiler: and ends up killing him alongside his girlfriend.]]
** Sonja ends up breaking up with Palmer when she can't share what she did with Judd and closes herself off from him.
* LoveCannotOvercome: Sonja's secrecy and resentment of Palmer growing older results in them breaking up.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Morgan believes this and believes only by killing Sonja can he purge himself of his obsession with her.
* RapidAging: Lethe undergoes this after her metamorphisis and turns from a toddler to an adult woman.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Morgan has taken to forcing prostitutes to act like Sonja Blue so he can get a sexual thrill out of killing them.
* SecondLove: After Palmer [[spoiler: breaks up with Sonja, he ends up married to a local woman.]]
* SeriesFauxnale: This was meant to be the end of the series and resolves most of the major issues but subsequent books were added to it.
* ShortLivedOrganism: Lethe turns out to be this as the half-vampire rapidly goes from being an infant to a young woman to a crone that dies of old age within the span of a few years.
* VillainousCrush: Almost dying at Sonja's hands has resulted in Morgan becoming obsessed with her.
* WeaksauceWeakness: It turns out elder Pretenders eventually die of boredom. [[spoiler: Which turns them into Seraphs.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid:
** Sonja Blue qualifies as both human and vampire but this is due to her vampirism not quite taking completely.
** Catherine Wheele's father turns out to be a "backwoods incubus." This is the source of her PsychicPowers.
** Sonja Blue qualifies as both human and vampire but this is due to her vampirism not quite taking completely.
** Catherine Wheele's father turns out to be a "backwoods incubus." This is the source of her PsychicPowers.
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* MindRape: A favorite of Catherine Wheele as she uses the sexual fantasies of others to control them, being half-incubus.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Sonja Blue spends a great deal of time, decades in fact, as a prostitute after her initial turn. It is a very easy way to get victims.
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* HunterOfMonsters: Doctor Ghilardi wanted to be this as soon as he discovered Pretenders were real. However, he was too old and infirm to do it. So he employs Sonja Blue instead.
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* BullyingADragon: Sedating a vampire (even a living one) and keeping her prisoner in an asylum to blackmail her billionaire father seems like a ''terrible'' plan.
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* TheDogBitesBack: One of the orderlies attempts to assault Sonja in the asylum and gets his throat torn out in the process.
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* ThatManIsDead: Sonja reluctantly accepts that her life as Denise Thorne is over at the end.
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* VigilanteMan: Sonja Blue's first meal upon escaping the hospital is a bunch of guys holding up a convenience store. The guy can't even describe what happens but it involves her smashing them through the plate glass door and taking only a pair of mirrored sunglasses.
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