History Literature / SonjaBlue

* TheFrameUp: Lola planned to do this to Palmer, the private detective she hired, in order to get away with murdering her husband. It didn't work as he survived being shot by her in "self-defense."

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Sonja Blue has dark blair hair, pale white skin, and the creepy aura of a vampire.

* DrivenToSuicide: Russell Howard kills himself after Sonja Blue forces him to reveal Morgan's daytime residence.

* BodySurf: Fire demons work this way. They possess a body to give themselves a physical presence, but their fiery nature causes the body to slowly cook from the inside, so before long they have to choose another body to leap into.

* AboveTheInfluence: Despite being incredibly attracted to Sonja, Palmer turns down a chance of sex with her. Sonja is insulted.

* UndeadChild: One of the books involved a character who had been pregnant, for several ''decades'', with an incredibly {{squick}}y vampire baby.

* UndeadChild: One of the books involved a character who had been pregnant, for several ''decades'', with an incredibly {{squick}}y vampire baby.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Sonja considers it worth killing over and engages in several murders of rapists over the course of the novel.

* {{Blackmail}}: Catherine Wheel is blackmailing Jacob Thorne with knowledge that his daughter is a vampire.

* Blackmail: Catherine Wheel is blackmailing Jacob Thorne with knowledge that his daughter is a vampire.

* DeadlyCourt: The vampires of the world have large broods that they rule over as nobility and constantly compete against one another with.

* GenreSavvy: A relatively minor example (it doesn't actually do him a lot of good) in ''Sunglasses After Dark'': After Claude Haggerty has been kidnapped by a pair of [[ProfessionalKiller hitmen]] who want to kill him for reasons he doesn't understand, and then rescued by a tiny woman who rips the hitmen apart with her bare hands and starts drinking their blood, he passes out and wakes up in what can only be described as a lair. At which point, he desperately begins trying to figure out what sort of horror story he's fallen into, and whether there's any chance he's the hero. And praying it's not a slasher film.
* SunglassesAtNight: ''Sunglasses After Dark'' is the first book of a series about Sonja Blue, a light-sensitive vampire who wears just those.

!! Tropes in this series:

* {{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.
* DeathOfAChild: Sonja comes across an ogre who is in the process of lowering a baby into his maw. He would've been successful in eating the baby if she'd been two minutes slower.
--> '''Sonja:''' Uh-uh. No veal for you.
* DreamWalker: This is one of the powers of vampires. When Sonja is in an insane asylum, and her human side is being suppressed by anti-psychotic drugs and sedatives, her vampire side goes dream-walking at night, making the other inmates even more insane than they were to start with.

* FakeFaithHealer: In ''Sunglasses After Dark'', the primary antagonist, Catherine Wheele, is a rich and powerful evangelist and faith healer. She is actually an extremely powerful psychic with MindControl powers, but she doesn't have a ''bit'' of healing power--that part is pure con.
* GenreSavvy: A relatively minor example (it doesn't actually do him a lot of good) in ''Sunglasses After Dark'': After Claude Haggerty has been kidnapped by a pair of [[ProfessionalKiller hitmen]] who want to kill him for reasons he doesn't understand, and then rescued by a tiny woman who rips the hitmen apart with her bare hands and starts drinking their blood, he passes out and wakes up in what can only be described as a lair. At which point, he desperately begins trying to figure out what sort of horror story he's fallen into, and whether there's any chance he's the hero. And praying it's not a slasher film.

* NoNameGiven: ''A Dozen Black Roses''. The main character Sonja Blue is referred to as "the stranger" throughout the whole book, when asked for her name, she either refuses to give it, or is cut off. She finally reveals it at the end to one of the few surviving characters. If you read the back of the book her name is given (and there were three previous novels plus several short stories about Sonja as well).

* PrivateDetective: Palmer is introduced in ''In the Blood'' and ticks most of these boxes, being essentially from a FilmNoir rather than typical vampire story. Then he discovers he has PsychicPowers.

* SunglassesAtNight: ''Sunglasses After Dark'' is the first book of a series about Sonja Blue, a light-sensitive vampire who wears just those.

* WithholdingTheirName: In ''A Dozen Black Roses'', the main character Sonja Blue is referred to as "the stranger" throughout the whole book, when asked for her name, she either refuses to give it, or is cut off. She [[SubvertedTrope finally reveals it]] at the end to one of the few surviving characters.

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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 Bram Stoker Award 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.

* BodySurf: fire demons work this way. They possess a body to give themselves a physical presence, but their fiery nature causes the body to slowly cook from the inside, so before long they have to choose another body to leap into.

The original trilogy documents Blue's efforts to [[PayEvilUntoEvil track down and destroy]] the Master vampire who created her.

* ''A Dozen Dead Roses'' (1991, crossover with ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'')