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* BigBrotherBully: Gavriel had a ''whopper'' of one when he was alive. Aleksander frequently mocked, humiliated, and degraded him for being TheDutifulSon while he himself drank, gambled, and whored the family fortune away. [[spoiler:He then seduced and scorned Gavriel's fiance ForTheEvulz, and showed up drunk to the duel Gavriel challenged him to for his fiance's honor, to show his little he took him seriously. It's hard to blame Gavriel for snapping and shooting him anyway.]]
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* BigBrotherBully: Gavriel had a ''whopper'' of one when he was alive. Aleksander frequently mocked, humiliated, and degraded him for being TheDutifulSon while he himself drank, gambled, and whored the family fortune away. [[spoiler:He then seduced and scorned Gavriel's fiance ForTheEvulz, and showed up drunk to the duel Gavriel challenged him to for his fiance's honor, to show his how little he took him seriously. It's hard to blame Gavriel for snapping and shooting him anyway.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Turns out, Gavriel was the Thorn of Istra ''and'' the new Spider from the beginning of the book.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Turns out, Gavriel [[spoiler:Gavriel was the Thorn of Istra ''and'' the new Spider from the beginning of the book.all along.]]
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* ItAmusedMe: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Gavriel let Tana save him at the start of the novel (even though he wasn't in any danger) partly because of this, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe partly because he was touched that someone chose to save him for the first time in his life]].]]
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* ItAmusedMe: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Gavriel was planning on letting Lucien's men take him back to his lair so he could kill him from the novel's beginning. However, he let Tana save rescue him at the start of the novel (even though he wasn't in any danger) partly because of this, he was curious to see how the little detour would carry out, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe partly because he was touched that someone chose to save him for the first time in his life]].]]
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* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively. Lucien, whose name means "light", is fair, blond, and often wears white clothing, but he's the main antagonist. Gavriel is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette who primarily wears black, and is a [[NominalHero nominally good vampire]] under all his madness.
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* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: LightIsNotGood[=/=]DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively. Lucien, whose name means "light", is fair, blond, and often wears white clothing, but he's the main antagonist. Gavriel is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette who primarily wears black, and but is a [[NominalHero nominally good vampire]] under all his madness.
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** "The Thorn of Istra, the mad vampire. She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, [[AxCrazy so covered in blood]] that she hadn't remembered his features, hadn't remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughing, [[LaughingMad endlessly laughing.]] Mad as a dog. Mad as a god. [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Gavriel.]]]]"
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* CannotSpitItOut: Coldtown residents Jameson and Valentina clearly like each other, but they're both too shy to make the first move. [[spoiler:[[ShipperOnDeck Tana]] finally drags them [[DanceOfRomance on the dance floor]] at the end.]]
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* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Tana to Gavriel on their way to Coldtown. Gavriel's vampiric strength and hunger, coupled with his erratic and unpredictable behavior, leaves the other human characters rightly afraid of him. (He also attacks and almost drains Aiden, Winter, and Midnight, in short order.) Only Tana has any semblance of control over him, since [[MoralityChain she's the only person he'll listen to]].
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* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Tana to Gavriel on their way to Coldtown. Gavriel's vampiric strength and hunger, coupled with his scattered thoughts and erratic and unpredictable behavior, leaves the other human characters rightly afraid of him. (He freaked out. [[spoiler:He also attacks and almost drains Aiden, Winter, and Midnight, in short order.) ]] Only Tana has any semblance of control over him, since [[MoralityChain she's the only person he'll listen to]].
* ShipperOnDeck: Tana to [[spoiler:Valentina and Jameson.]]
* TransEqualsGay: Averted. [[spoiler:Valentina is a transwoman. The narrative makes it clear that she is ''female'', and she has a crush on Jameson as a girl who likes a boy, not as a gay boy dressed as a girl who who likes another boy. In fact, the main reason she won't pursue him is she's afraid he wouldn't like her without her underwear on.]]
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* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:How Gavriel became the new Spider before the novel even started.]]
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* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:How Gavriel became the new Spider before the novel even started.Spider.]]
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* AmicableExes: Tana and Aiden, more or less. They're not dating anymore, but they're still friends and care about each other. Though she does find him pretty exacerbating anyway.
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* AmicableExes: Tana and Aiden, more or less. They're not dating anymore, but they're still friends and care about each other. Though she does find him pretty exacerbating anyway.exacerbating.
* BigBrotherBully: Gavriel had a ''whopper'' of one when he was alive. Aleksander frequently mocked, humiliated, and degraded him for being TheDutifulSon while he himself drank, gambled, and whored the family fortune away. [[spoiler:He then seduced and scorned Gavriel's fiance ForTheEvulz, and showed up drunk to the duel Gavriel challenged him to for his fiance's honor, to show his little he took him seriously. It's hard to blame Gavriel for snapping and shooting him anyway.]]
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* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Tana to Gavriel on their way to Coldtown. Gavriel's vampiric strength and hunger, coupled with his erratic thoughts and unpredictable mood swings, leaves most of the other (human) characters rightly afraid of him. Only Tana has any semblance of control over him, since [[MoralityChain she's the only person he'll listen to]].
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* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Tana to Gavriel on their way to Coldtown. Gavriel's vampiric strength and hunger, coupled with his erratic thoughts and unpredictable mood swings, behavior, leaves most of the other (human) human characters rightly afraid of him. (He also attacks and almost drains Aiden, Winter, and Midnight, in short order.) Only Tana has any semblance of control over him, since [[MoralityChain she's the only person he'll listen to]].
* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Turns out, Gavriel was the Thorn of Istra ''and'' the new Spider from the beginning of the book.]]
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* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and doesn't want to go to Coldtown as much as her, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].
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* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and doesn't want to go to Coldtown as much as her, Coldtown, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].
* MortonsFork: [[spoiler:By showing up drunk to the duel, Gavriel's older brother puts him in this dilemma. He could either kill his own brother when he's too drunk to defend himself, making it an [[PyrrhicVictory honor-less victory]] and be ridden with guilt for the rest of his life. Or he could walk away from the duel, forfeiting his honor and being marked a craven (in a society where upholding honor is SeriousBusiness) for the rest of his life. Either way, his honor is forfeit and the rest of his emotional life is ruined. Gavriel figures that since he's damned either way, might as well KickTheSonOfABitch.]]
* RewatchBonus: A lot of the book's plot and mystery can be seen in a new light once the reader learns [[spoiler: Gavriel has been both the Thorn of Istra and the new Spider the whole time.]]
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Lucien]] casually murders [[TheDragon Elisabet]], his lover and century-long partner, while trying to convince Gavriel to drop his grudge against him. Even ''[[CloudCuckooLander Gavriel]]'' is shocked by the suddenness of it all. Several characters are still adjusting to it several chapters later.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Gavriel's ''entire backstory''. His BigBrotherBully stole his fiance's heart (and virginity) and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel challenged him to a duel for her honor, which his brother didn't even take seriously enough to show up sober, giving him a SadisticChoice to either murder a man who couldn't defend himself, or face the shame of backing out of the duel forever. He killed his brother for it, which caused his fiance to commit suicide, and him to have to leave his mom and sister. Then he got [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]], and was later offered a servant girl to complete the transformation, which he refused to spare her life. Later, [[StartOfDarkness he accidentally massacred an innkeeping family during his transformation]], and found out [[AllForNothing Lucien killed the girl anyway]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. He was then manipulated by his master to take the fall for creating him in the first place, but was made into the Spider's personal hitman instead. Then, his old master Lucien decided to taunt him by deliberately creating targets that resembled his brother. Finally broken down from the jests, he let one go, [[NoGoodDeed and was then tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak.]] DrivenToMadness indeed.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, most characters regard Gavriel as this. Partly because his [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette vampiric features and mannerisms]] clash with his seemingly normal teenage boy appearance, partly because his own [[CloudCuckooLander off-kilter personality]] causes him to move, speak, and act in a very erratic and unsettling manner.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Gavriel's ''entire backstory''. His BigBrotherBully stole his fiance's heart (and virginity) and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel challenged him to a duel for her honor, which his brother didn't even take seriously enough to show up sober, giving him a SadisticChoice to either murder a man who couldn't defend himself, or face the shame of backing out of the duel forever. He killed his brother for it, which caused his fiance to commit suicide, and him to have to leave his mom and sister. Then he got [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]], and was later offered a servant girl to complete the transformation, which he refused to spare her life. Later, [[StartOfDarkness he accidentally massacred an innkeeping family during his transformation]], and found out [[AllForNothing Lucien killed the girl anyway]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. He was then manipulated by his master to take the fall for creating him in the first place, but was made into the Spider's personal hitman instead. Then, his old master Lucien decided to taunt him by deliberately creating targets that resembled his brother. Finally broken down from the jests, he let one go, [[NoGoodDeed and was then tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak.]] DrivenToMadness indeed.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, most characters regard Gavriel as this. Partly because his [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette vampiric features and mannerisms]] clash with his seemingly normal teenage boy appearance, partly because his own [[CloudCuckooLander off-kilter personality]] causes him to move, speak, and act in a very erratic and unsettling manner.
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Lucien]] casually murders [[TheDragon Elisabet]], his lover [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Elisabet]]. Despite being [[BigBad Lucien's]] mate and century-long partner, while trying he casually murders her to convince Gavriel to drop his grudge against him. Even ''[[CloudCuckooLander Gavriel]]'' is shocked by the suddenness of it all. Several characters are still adjusting to it several chapters later.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Gavriel's ''entire backstory''. His BigBrotherBullystole seduced his fiance's heart (and virginity) fiance and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel challenged him to a duel for her honor, duel, which his brother Aleksander didn't even take seriously enough to show up sober, giving him a SadisticChoice to either murder a man who couldn't defend himself, or face the shame of backing out of the duel forever. He killed his brother for it, which caused his fiance to commit suicide, and him to have to leave his mom and sister. Then he got [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]], and was later offered a servant girl to complete the transformation, which he refused to spare her life. Later, [[StartOfDarkness he accidentally massacred an innkeeping family during his transformation]], and found out [[AllForNothing Lucien killed the girl anyway]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. He was then manipulated by his master to take the fall for creating him in the first place, but was made into the Spider's personal hitman instead. Then, his old master Lucien decided to taunt him by deliberately creating targets that resembled his brother. Finally broken down from the jests, he let one go, [[NoGoodDeed and was then tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak.]] DrivenToMadness indeed.
* UncannyValley:In-universe, most characters regard Gavriel as this.Gavriel, in-universe. Partly because his [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette vampiric features and mannerisms]] clash with his seemingly normal teenage boy appearance, partly because his own [[CloudCuckooLander off-kilter personality]] causes him to move, speak, and act in a very erratic and unsettling manner.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Gavriel's ''entire backstory''. His BigBrotherBully
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* AmicableExes: Tana and Aiden, more or less. They're not dating anymore, but they're still friends and care about each other. Though she does find him pretty exacerbating anyway.
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* TheDragon: Gavriel was once this to Lucien, before he was forced into the Spider's service as the [[ProfessionalKiller Thorn of Istra.]] The work wasn't much different, though. He went from [[VigilanteMan killing human murderers]] to killing wayward newly-turned vampires to prevent vampire outbreaks or army buildups.
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* TheDragon: Gavriel was once this to Lucien, before he was forced into the Spider's service as the [[ProfessionalKiller [[spoiler:[[ProfessionalKiller Thorn of Istra.]] ]]]] The work wasn't much different, though. He went from [[VigilanteMan killing human murderers]] to killing [[spoiler:killing wayward newly-turned vampires to prevent vampire outbreaks or army buildups. buildups.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: Since Aiden has never even tried to control his impulses, and beating the Cold requires fighting the uncontrollable urge to drink human blood for over ''sixty eight days'', he feels it's only a matter of time before he succumbs. [[spoiler:He's right.]]
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** Happens again later in the novel when [[spoiler:Tana goes Cold, and lets Gavriel drink from her. The two wind up feeding on each other simultaneously, and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the descriptions of their shared "ecstasy" and "bliss"]] are enough to make it practically a sex scene in its own right.]]
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** Happens again later in the novel when [[spoiler:Tana goes Cold, and lets Gavriel drink from her. The two wind up feeding on each other simultaneously, and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the descriptions of their shared "ecstasy" and "bliss"]] are enough to make it practically feel like a sex scene in its own right.]]
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* ItAmusedMe: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Gavriel let Tana save him at the start of the novel partly because of this, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe partly because he was touched that someone chose to save him for the first time in his life]].]]
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* ItAmusedMe: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Gavriel let Tana save him at the start of the novel (even though he wasn't in any danger) partly because of this, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe partly because he was touched that someone chose to save him for the first time in his life]].]]
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* LaughingMad: Gavriel on a several occasions, [[spoiler:particularly in his TragicBackstory]].
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* LaughingMad: Gavriel on a several occasions, [[spoiler:particularly in his TragicBackstory]].
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* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and doesn't want to go to Coldtown as much as Midnight, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].
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* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and doesn't want to go to Coldtown as much as Midnight, her, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].
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* MindGameShip: [[invoked]] How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan. Before they started dating, he often complained of the [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy, jealous]], ''uncool'' girls he used to date, before praising Tana for being so much more ''cool'' and 'understanding'' than them. Then, when they started dating, he constantly flirted and made out with tons of other people ([[BiTheWay male or female]]), and looked at her as though challenging her to get angry or yell at him, and she often felt like she ''had'' to pretend like it didn't bother her in order to "win" his unspoken little mind games. She started to feel like she'd come out on top, until he suddenly dumped her over a Twitter message anyway.
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* MauveShirt: While he gets more characterization than random side characters, Winter has significantly less dialogue and characterization than the rest of the group on their way to Coldtown (Tana, Aiden, Gavriel, and Midnight), so so in a book where AnyoneCanDie you know he isn't long for this world.
* MindGameShip: [[invoked]] How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan.Before they started dating, he He often complained of the ex-girlfriends acting like [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy, jealous]], ''uncool'' girls he used to date, before praising Tana for being so much more ''cool'' clingy jealous girls]], but then kept flirting and 'understanding'' than them. Then, when they started dating, he constantly flirted and made making out with tons of other people ([[BiTheWay male or female]]), and looked at while carefully watching her as though challenging her reaction like he wanted to get angry or yell at him, and she often a rise out of her. Tana felt like she ''had'' compelled to shrug it off and pretend like it didn't bother her in order so as not to "win" appear ''uncool'', to win his unspoken little mind games. She started to feel like she'd come out on top, until Then he suddenly dumped her over a Twitter message anyway.
* MindGameShip: [[invoked]] How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan.
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* NightmareFuel: Imagine being eviscerated, beaten, having your eyes gouged out, only for them to grow back and the process to repeat. For ten years. Prometheus was apparently a big inspiration for the old vampires.
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* NightmareFuel: [[invoked]] Imagine being eviscerated, beaten, having your eyes gouged out, only for them to grow back and the process to repeat. For ten years. Prometheus was apparently a big inspiration for the old vampires.
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* BiTheWay: Aiden will kiss another boy as soon as he'll kiss a girl, though he seems to mostly date the latter.
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** Gavriel is a former assassin (not to mention the series' strongest vampire after [[spoiler: imbibing the Spider's blood]]), but his troubles stretch back for centuries. His brother stole his lover and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel killed his brother for it, which causes the girl to commit suicide. Then he gets [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]] and [[StartOfDarkness accidentally massacres an innkeeping family during his transformation]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. To top it all off, he was [[NoGoodDeed tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak. [[TheWoobie It's a wonder he's still functional]].
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** Gavriel is a former assassin (not to mention the series' strongest vampire after [[spoiler: imbibing the Spider's blood]]), but his troubles stretch back for centuries. His [[spoiler:His brother stole his lover and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel killed his brother for it, which causes the girl to commit suicide. Then he gets [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]] and [[StartOfDarkness accidentally massacres an innkeeping family during his transformation]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. To top it all off, he was [[NoGoodDeed tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak. ]] [[TheWoobie It's a wonder he's still functional]].
* CloudCuckooLander: Gavriel, full stop. Frequently lampshaded by most other characters.
* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Tana to Gavriel on their way to Coldtown. Gavriel's vampiric strength and hunger, coupled with his erratic thoughts and unpredictable mood swings, leaves most of the other (human) characters rightly afraid of him. Only Tana has any semblance of control over him, since [[MoralityChain she's the only person he'll listen to]].
* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Tana to Gavriel on their way to Coldtown. Gavriel's vampiric strength and hunger, coupled with his erratic thoughts and unpredictable mood swings, leaves most of the other (human) characters rightly afraid of him. Only Tana has any semblance of control over him, since [[MoralityChain she's the only person he'll listen to]].
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Tana figured that if she was going to die [[spoiler: confronting Lucien about his role in the murders of her classmates]], she may as well die sarcastic.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Tana figured that if she was going to die [[spoiler: confronting [[spoiler:confronting Lucien about his role in the murders of her classmates]], she may as well die sarcastic.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: ''Gavriel'', full stop.
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* Goth: The twins, Midnight and Winter.
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* Goth: {{Goth}}: The twins, Midnight and Winter.
** Happens again later in the novel when [[spoiler:Tana goes Cold, and lets Gavriel drink from her. The two wind up feeding on each other simultaneously, and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the descriptions of their shared "ecstasy" and "bliss"]] are enough to make it practically a sex scene in its own right.]]
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* InnOfNoReturn: Inversed. It's the innkeepers that don't walk out alive when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] spends the night.
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* InnOfNoReturn: Inversed. It's the innkeepers that don't walk out alive when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] [[spoiler:Gavriel]] spends the night.
* ItAmusedMe: The ending reveals that [[spoiler:Gavriel let Tana save him at the start of the novel partly because of this, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe partly because he was touched that someone chose to save him for the first time in his life]].]]
** Same with [[spoiler:Lucien]] when Tana has him at her mercy and he begs her to spare his life. After all the horror and suffering he's inflicted [[spoiler:particularly on Gavriel]], it's hard not to cheer when she kills him anyway.
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* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively. Lucien, whose name means "light", is fair, blond, and often wears white clothing, but he's the main antagonist.
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. He shamelessly flirts with other girls, and she pretends not to care. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
* MindGameShip: How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan.
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. He shamelessly flirts with other girls, and she pretends not to care. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
* MindGameShip: How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan.
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* LaughingMad: Gavriel on a several occasions, [[spoiler:particularly in his TragicBackstory]].
* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively. Lucien, whose name means "light", is fair, blond, and often wears white clothing, but he's the main antagonist. \n Gavriel is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette who primarily wears black, and is a [[NominalHero nominally good vampire]] under all his madness.
* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and doesn't want to go to Coldtown as much as Midnight, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. He shamelessly flirts with othergirls, girls ([[BiTheWay and boys]]), and she pretends not to care. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
* MindGameShip: [[invoked]] How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan. Before they started dating, he often complained of the [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy, jealous]], ''uncool'' girls he used to date, before praising Tana for being so much more ''cool'' and 'understanding'' than them. Then, when they started dating, he constantly flirted and made out with tons of other people ([[BiTheWay male or female]]), and looked at her as though challenging her to get angry or yell at him, and she often felt like she ''had'' to pretend like it didn't bother her in order to "win" his unspoken little mind games. She started to feel like she'd come out on top, until he suddenly dumped her over a Twitter message anyway.
* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively. Lucien, whose name means "light", is fair, blond, and often wears white clothing, but he's the main antagonist.
* LoveMartyr: Winter is a rare platonic example to his twin sister, Midnight. He's clearly not as into the vampire stuff and doesn't want to go to Coldtown as much as Midnight, but he goes along with it anyway to make his sister happy. She seems too self-absorbed to notice his feelings, [[spoiler:accidentally kills him when she becomes a vampire, and gets over it quickly]].
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. He shamelessly flirts with other
* MindGameShip: [[invoked]] How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aidan. Before they started dating, he often complained of the [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy, jealous]], ''uncool'' girls he used to date, before praising Tana for being so much more ''cool'' and 'understanding'' than them. Then, when they started dating, he constantly flirted and made out with tons of other people ([[BiTheWay male or female]]), and looked at her as though challenging her to get angry or yell at him, and she often felt like she ''had'' to pretend like it didn't bother her in order to "win" his unspoken little mind games. She started to feel like she'd come out on top, until he suddenly dumped her over a Twitter message anyway.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe vampirism is a virus. Infected people are referred to as having "gone cold." It can take up to sixty-eight days to heal from the time of being bitten, and if a person consumes human blood before the infection is out of their system they'll turn into a vampire. [[Film/TheTwilightSaga At least they're not sparkly.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe vampirism is a virus. Infected people are referred to as having "gone cold." It can take up to sixty-eight days to heal from the time of being bitten, and if a person consumes human blood before the infection is out of their system they'll turn into a vampire. [[Film/TheTwilightSaga At least they're not sparkly.]]
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* OutGambitted: Lucien and Gavriel agree to put in Gavriel in fake chains before [[TheManBehindTheMan the Spider]] and his retinue, so that Lucien's guards can [[AssassinationAttempt kill the Spider]], but [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Chronic Backstabber]] Lucien actually plots to [[spoiler: get Gavriel killed instead]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Gavriel IS [[DeadAllAlong the Spider]], having killed him to escape, and it's Lucien who gets his ass kicked]].
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* OutGambitted: Lucien and Gavriel agree to put in Gavriel in fake chains before [[TheManBehindTheMan the Spider]] and his retinue, so that Lucien's guards can [[AssassinationAttempt kill the Spider]], but [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Chronic Backstabber]] Lucien actually plots to [[spoiler: get [[spoiler:get Gavriel killed instead]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Gavriel [[spoiler:Gavriel IS [[DeadAllAlong the Spider]], having killed him to escape, and it's Lucien who gets his ass kicked]].
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Lucien]] casually murders [[TheDragon Elisabet]], his lover and century-long partner, while trying to convince Gavriel to drop his grudge against him. Even ''[[CloudCuckooLander Gavriel]]'' is shocked by the suddenness of it all. Several characters are still adjusting to it several chapters later.]]
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Gavriel's ''entire backstory''. His BigBrotherBully stole his fiance's heart (and virginity) and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel challenged him to a duel for her honor, which his brother didn't even take seriously enough to show up sober, giving him a SadisticChoice to either murder a man who couldn't defend himself, or face the shame of backing out of the duel forever. He killed his brother for it, which caused his fiance to commit suicide, and him to have to leave his mom and sister. Then he got [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]], and was later offered a servant girl to complete the transformation, which he refused to spare her life. Later, [[StartOfDarkness he accidentally massacred an innkeeping family during his transformation]], and found out [[AllForNothing Lucien killed the girl anyway]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. He was then manipulated by his master to take the fall for creating him in the first place, but was made into the Spider's personal hitman instead. Then, his old master Lucien decided to taunt him by deliberately creating targets that resembled his brother. Finally broken down from the jests, he let one go, [[NoGoodDeed and was then tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak.]] DrivenToMadness indeed.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, most characters regard Gavriel as this. Partly because his [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette vampiric features and mannerisms]] clash with his seemingly normal teenage boy appearance, partly because his own [[CloudCuckooLander off-kilter personality]] causes him to move, speak, and act in a very erratic and unsettling manner.
* TraumaCongaLine: [[spoiler:Gavriel's ''entire backstory''. His BigBrotherBully stole his fiance's heart (and virginity) and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel challenged him to a duel for her honor, which his brother didn't even take seriously enough to show up sober, giving him a SadisticChoice to either murder a man who couldn't defend himself, or face the shame of backing out of the duel forever. He killed his brother for it, which caused his fiance to commit suicide, and him to have to leave his mom and sister. Then he got [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]], and was later offered a servant girl to complete the transformation, which he refused to spare her life. Later, [[StartOfDarkness he accidentally massacred an innkeeping family during his transformation]], and found out [[AllForNothing Lucien killed the girl anyway]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. He was then manipulated by his master to take the fall for creating him in the first place, but was made into the Spider's personal hitman instead. Then, his old master Lucien decided to taunt him by deliberately creating targets that resembled his brother. Finally broken down from the jests, he let one go, [[NoGoodDeed and was then tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak.]] DrivenToMadness indeed.
* UncannyValley: In-universe, most characters regard Gavriel as this. Partly because his [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette vampiric features and mannerisms]] clash with his seemingly normal teenage boy appearance, partly because his own [[CloudCuckooLander off-kilter personality]] causes him to move, speak, and act in a very erratic and unsettling manner.
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* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: [[spoiler:How Gavriel became the new Spider before the novel even started.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Aiden to Tana frequently when they were together, which is part of why they broke up.
* YourCheatingHeart: Aiden to Tana frequently when they were together, which is part of why they broke up.
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* TheHunter: HunterOfMonsters: Bounty hunters are not uncommon, and rewards are offered by both the government and individuals for capturing and/or killing vampires. Pearl is a fan of Hemlok the Vampire Hunter, a reality television series.
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* CreepyTwins: Midnight and Winter try to invoke this in-universe.
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* CreepyTwins: Midnight and Winter try to invoke this in-universe. They come off as rather overdramatic, though.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Tana figured that if she was going to die [[spoiler: confronting Lucien about his role in the murders of her classmates]], she may as well die sarcastic.
* DefiantToTheEnd: Tana figured that if she was going to die [[spoiler: confronting Lucien about his role in the murders of her classmates]], she may as well die sarcastic.
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* FangsAreEvil: Well, this IS a book about vampires ,some of whom are antagonists.
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* FangsAreEvil: Well, this IS a book about vampires ,some vampires, some of whom are antagonists.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Anyone infected by the vampire virus gets overwhelming urges to drink blood, and newly-born vampires usually require enough blood to kill at least one person (and, if not restrained, many more). Therefore, most or all vampires have committed manslaughter, and some just keep going.
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* TheHunter: Bounty hunters are not uncommon, and rewards are offered by both the government and individuals for capturing and/or killing vampires. Pearl is a fan of Hemlock the Vampire Hunter, a reality television series.
* IntrepidReporter: Bill Story
* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's hard to feel bad for Aleksander when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] shoots him through the heart in a duel.
* IntrepidReporter: Bill Story
* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's hard to feel bad for Aleksander when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] shoots him through the heart in a duel.
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* HemoErotic: Tana bites her tongue while she and Gavriel are kissing, so he can feed on her blood. For vampires, drinking blood has been compared to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "ecstasy" and "pure bliss"]], so it was a pretty good turn-on.
* TheHunter: Bounty hunters are not uncommon, and rewards are offered by both the government and individuals for capturing and/or killing vampires. Pearl is a fan ofHemlock Hemlok the Vampire Hunter, a reality television series.
* InnOfNoReturn: Inversed. It's the innkeepers that don't walk out alive when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] spends the night.
* IntrepidReporter: BillStory
Story. He's not the only reporter to ever cover the FantasticGhetto that is Coldtown, but he's probably been there the longest.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's hard to feel bad forAleksander [[BigBrotherBully Aleksander]] when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] shoots him through the heart in a duel.
* TheHunter: Bounty hunters are not uncommon, and rewards are offered by both the government and individuals for capturing and/or killing vampires. Pearl is a fan of
* InnOfNoReturn: Inversed. It's the innkeepers that don't walk out alive when [[spoiler: Gavriel]] spends the night.
* IntrepidReporter: Bill
* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's hard to feel bad for
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* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively.
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
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* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively.
respectively. Lucien, whose name means "light", is fair, blond, and often wears white clothing, but he's the main antagonist.
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. He shamelessly flirts with other girls, and she pretends not to care. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. He shamelessly flirts with other girls, and she pretends not to care. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
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* NightmareFuel: Imagine being eviscerated, beaten, having your eyes gouged out, only for them to grow back and the process to repeat. For ten years. The old vampires were apparently inspired by the Greek legend Prometheus.
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* NightmareFuel: Imagine being eviscerated, beaten, having your eyes gouged out, only for them to grow back and the process to repeat. For ten years. The old vampires were Prometheus was apparently inspired by a big inspiration for the Greek legend Prometheus.old vampires.
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* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Back when Lucien, Elisabet, and Gavriel were best friends, [[DeathSeeker Gavriel]] offers his life to the Spider in exchange for Lucien's. He got IndenturedServitude instead.
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* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is obsessed with vampires and immortality. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
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* SlasherSmile: Gavriel sports one of these in his more homicidal moments.
* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor obsessed with vampires andimmortality. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.immortality.]]
* SuperStrength: Another perk of vampirism. Drinking another vampire's blood makes that vampire [[PowerUpFood even stronger]].
* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor obsessed with vampires and
* SuperStrength: Another perk of vampirism. Drinking another vampire's blood makes that vampire [[PowerUpFood even stronger]].
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Gavriel and Tana's relationship has shades of this. [[spoiler:Gavriel states that he loves Tana because she is the only person who has ever saved him.]]
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Gavriel and Tana's relationship has shades of developed from this. [[spoiler:Gavriel states that he loves Tana because she is the only person who has ever saved him.]]]]
* BrokenAce: Several examples.
** Tana, a BadassNormal who also [[MyGreatestFailure indirectly caused her mother's death]] and woke up after a party to find all her classmates murdered.
** Gavriel is a former assassin (not to mention the series' strongest vampire after [[spoiler: imbibing the Spider's blood]]), but his troubles stretch back for centuries. His brother stole his lover and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel killed his brother for it, which causes the girl to commit suicide. Then he gets [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]] and [[StartOfDarkness accidentally massacres an innkeeping family during his transformation]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. To top it all off, he was [[NoGoodDeed tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak. [[TheWoobie It's a wonder he's still functional]].
* BrokenAce: Several examples.
** Tana, a BadassNormal who also [[MyGreatestFailure indirectly caused her mother's death]] and woke up after a party to find all her classmates murdered.
** Gavriel is a former assassin (not to mention the series' strongest vampire after [[spoiler: imbibing the Spider's blood]]), but his troubles stretch back for centuries. His brother stole his lover and then scorned her ForTheEvulz. Gavriel killed his brother for it, which causes the girl to commit suicide. Then he gets [[ClaimedByTheSupernatural bitten by a vampire]] and [[StartOfDarkness accidentally massacres an innkeeping family during his transformation]]. He figured he couldn't get any more damned and started killing murderers. His sister renounced him as a demon, then got turned into a vampire by his master, and promptly committed suicide. To top it all off, he was [[NoGoodDeed tortured for ten years for sparing the person]] who spawned the vampirism outbreak. [[TheWoobie It's a wonder he's still functional]].
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* ClothingDamage: Tana's outfits frequently suffer this, but it serves as an indication of trauma rather than fanservice.
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* ClothingDamage: Tana's outfits frequently suffer this, but it serves as an indication of trauma rather than fanservice. She even lampshades this.
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* TheDragon: Gavriel was once this to Lucien, before he was forced into the Spider's service as the [[ProfessionalKiller Thorn of Istra.]] The work wasn't much different, though. Before, he [[VigilanteMan killed human murderers]]. After, he killed wayward newly-turned vampires to prevent vampire outbreaks or army buildups.
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* TheDragon: Gavriel was once this to Lucien, before he was forced into the Spider's service as the [[ProfessionalKiller Thorn of Istra.]] The work wasn't much different, though. Before, he He went from [[VigilanteMan killed killing human murderers]]. After, he killed murderers]] to killing wayward newly-turned vampires to prevent vampire outbreaks or army buildups.
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* FangsAreEvil: Well, this IS a book about vampires. Not all of them are bad, though.
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* KillingInSelfDefense: What else are you supposed to do when a [[MurderMakesYouCrazy grief-mad]] vampire jumps you in an alleyway?
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* MasochismTango: Aidan and Tana's former relationship. They've broken up, but they still care for each other.
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* OutGambitted: Lucien and Gavriel agree to put in Gavriel in fake chains before [[TheManBehindTheMan the Spider]] and his retinue, so that Lucien's guards can [[Tyrannicide kill the Spider]], but [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Chronic Backstabber]] Lucien actually plots to [[spoiler: get Gavriel killed instead]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Gavriel IS [[DeadAllAlong the Spider]], having killed him to escape, and it's Lucien who gets his ass kicked]].
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* OutGambitted: Lucien and Gavriel agree to put in Gavriel in fake chains before [[TheManBehindTheMan the Spider]] and his retinue, so that Lucien's guards can [[Tyrannicide [[AssassinationAttempt kill the Spider]], but [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Chronic Backstabber]] Lucien actually plots to [[spoiler: get Gavriel killed instead]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Gavriel IS [[DeadAllAlong the Spider]], having killed him to escape, and it's Lucien who gets his ass kicked]].
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* PetTheDog: Aidan may be [[YourCheatingHeart kind of a dick]], but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.\\
And then tehre were two
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* PetTheDog: Aidan may be [[YourCheatingHeart kind of a dick]], but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.\\
And then tehre were twosister.
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* TheDragon: The Thorn of Istra
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* TheDragon: The Gavriel was once this to Lucien, before he was forced into the Spider's service as the [[ProfessionalKiller Thorn of IstraIstra.]] The work wasn't much different, though. Before, he [[VigilanteMan killed human murderers]]. After, he killed wayward newly-turned vampires to prevent vampire outbreaks or army buildups.
* FangsAreEvil: Well, this IS a book about vampires. Not all of them are bad, though.
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* PetTheDog: Aidan may be [[YourCheatingHeart kind of a dick]], but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:Tana and Gavriel]]
** ''Gavriel:'' [[spoiler: Tana]]. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. [[Tearjerker No one but you]].
* SacrificialLion: [[Jerkass Christobel, Rufus, Winter, and Midnight]] intend Tana to be this when they lock her in a room with an infected Aidan. It [[KilledOffscreen backfires horribly]] on them when Tana escapes and they let out a hungry newborn vampire.
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:Tana and Gavriel]]
** ''Gavriel:'' [[spoiler: Tana]]. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. [[Tearjerker No one but you]].
* SacrificialLion: [[Jerkass Christobel, Rufus, Winter, and Midnight]] intend Tana to be this when they lock her in a room with an infected Aidan. It [[KilledOffscreen backfires horribly]] on them when Tana escapes and they let out a hungry newborn vampire.
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* PetTheDog: Aidan may be [[YourCheatingHeart kind of a dick]], but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
sister.\\
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* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:Tana andGavriel]]
** ''Gavriel:'' [[spoiler:Gavriel, because she [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind refused to leave him behind for the other vampires]]]].
-> '''Gavriel''': "[[spoiler: Tana]]. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me.[[Tearjerker No one but you]].
you."
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Gavriel]] is the Thorn of Istra.
** "The Thorn of Istra, the mad vampire. She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, [[AxCrazy so covered in blood]] that she hadn't remembered his features, hadn't remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughing, [[LaughingMad endlessly laughing.]] Mad as a dog. Mad as a god. [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Gavriel.]]]]"
* SacrificialLion:[[Jerkass Christobel, Rufus, Winter, and Midnight]] Midnight intend Tana to be this when they lock her in a room with an infected Aidan. It [[KilledOffscreen backfires backfires]] [[AssholeVictim horribly]] on them when Tana escapes and they let out a hungry newborn vampire.
And then tehre were two
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:Tana and
** ''Gavriel:'' [[spoiler:
-> '''Gavriel''': "[[spoiler: Tana]]. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Gavriel]] is the Thorn of Istra.
** "The Thorn of Istra, the mad vampire. She thought of the grainy video of him she had seen, head tipped back, [[AxCrazy so covered in blood]] that she hadn't remembered his features, hadn't remembered him as looking like anything but a monster, laughing, [[LaughingMad endlessly laughing.]] Mad as a dog. Mad as a god. [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Gavriel.]]]]"
* SacrificialLion:
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* TheCasanova: AidanTheCharmer: Aidan. It's how he gets away with being TheCasanova. When he and Tana were dating, she took it as a sort of Don't React challenge.
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* GoingForTheBigScoop: The reason Bill Story chose to stay in Coldtown. [[spoiler: And died for it]]
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* MoralityChain: Tana is arguably one for Gavriel.
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* MoralityChain: Tana is arguably one for Gavriel. She prevents him from [[spoiler: draining Midnight and Winter when they first meet.]]
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The description of Gavriel's torture when he was imprisoned in Paris.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe vampirism is a virus. Infected people are referred to as having "gone cold." It can take up to sixty-eight days to heal from the time of being bitten, and if a person consumes human blood before the infection is out of their system they'll turn into a vampire.
** It is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to keep someone who's gone cold contained. Legally, the infected are required to be sent to Coldtowns just like vampires.
* PetTheDog: Aidan may be kind of a dick, but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe vampirism is a virus. Infected people are referred to as having "gone cold." It can take up to sixty-eight days to heal from the time of being bitten, and if a person consumes human blood before the infection is out of their system they'll turn into a vampire.
** It is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to keep someone who's gone cold contained. Legally, the infected are required to be sent to Coldtowns just like vampires.
* PetTheDog: Aidan may be kind of a dick, but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The description of Gavriel's torture when he was imprisoned in Paris.]]
Imagine being eviscerated, beaten, having your eyes gouged out, only for them to grow back and the process to repeat. For ten years. The old vampires were apparently inspired by the Greek legend Prometheus.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe vampirism is a virus. Infected people are referred to as having "gone cold." It can take up to sixty-eight days to heal from the time of being bitten, and if a person consumes human blood before the infection is out of their system they'll turn into avampire.
vampire. [[Film/TheTwilightSaga At least they're not sparkly.]]
** It is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to keep someone who's gonecold Cold contained. Legally, the infected are required to be sent to Coldtowns just like vampires.
* OutGambitted: Lucien and Gavriel agree to put in Gavriel in fake chains before [[TheManBehindTheMan the Spider]] and his retinue, so that Lucien's guards can [[Tyrannicide kill the Spider]], but [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Chronic Backstabber]] Lucien actually plots to [[spoiler: get Gavriel killed instead]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Gavriel IS [[DeadAllAlong the Spider]], having killed him to escape, and it's Lucien who gets his ass kicked]].
* PetTheDog: Aidan may be [[YourCheatingHeart kind of adick, dick]], but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe vampirism is a virus. Infected people are referred to as having "gone cold." It can take up to sixty-eight days to heal from the time of being bitten, and if a person consumes human blood before the infection is out of their system they'll turn into a
** It is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to keep someone who's gone
* OutGambitted: Lucien and Gavriel agree to put in Gavriel in fake chains before [[TheManBehindTheMan the Spider]] and his retinue, so that Lucien's guards can [[Tyrannicide kill the Spider]], but [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Chronic Backstabber]] Lucien actually plots to [[spoiler: get Gavriel killed instead]]. It turns out [[spoiler: Gavriel IS [[DeadAllAlong the Spider]], having killed him to escape, and it's Lucien who gets his ass kicked]].
* PetTheDog: Aidan may be [[YourCheatingHeart kind of a
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** ''Gavriel:'' [[spoiler: Tana]]. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. [[Tearjerker No one but you]].
* SacrificialLion: [[Jerkass Christobel, Rufus, Winter, and Midnight]] intend Tana to be this when they lock her in a room with an infected Aidan. It [[KilledOffscreen backfires horribly]] on them when Tana escapes and they let out a hungry newborn vampire.
* SiblingMurder: [[spoiler: Tragically, a newly-turned Midnight drains her brother after feeding [[AccidentalMurder went too far.]]]]
* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is obsessed with vampires andimmortality.
immortality. BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor.
* UndyingLoyalty: Winter to Midnight. He follows her into Coldtown even when he gets cold feet about becoming a vampire there. [[spoiler: He dies there a few days later.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[Jerkass Christobel, Rufus, Winter, and Midnight]] intend Tana to be this when they lock her in a room with an infected Aidan. It [[KilledOffscreen backfires horribly]] on them when Tana escapes and they let out a hungry newborn vampire.
* SiblingMurder: [[spoiler: Tragically, a newly-turned Midnight drains her brother after feeding [[AccidentalMurder went too far.]]]]
* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is obsessed with vampires and
* UndyingLoyalty: Winter to Midnight. He follows her into Coldtown even when he gets cold feet about becoming a vampire there. [[spoiler: He dies there a few days later.]]
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* VampiresAreSexGods: How vampires are perceived in-universe by a large subset of the human population.
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* AerithAndBob: You have people named AwesomeMcCoolname Midnight and Winter along with Aidan and Pearl. Subverted in that [[spoiler: Midnight's and Winter's real names are Jenny and Jack Gan. [[DoNotCallMePaul But don't call Midnight that.]]]]
* AngstySurvivingTwin:[[spoiler:Midnight]][[spoiler:Midnight. But not for long]]
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The Coldest Girl In Coldtown is a 2013 young adult novel by HollyBlack. It takes place in a world where the existence of vampires is known by the general populace. Vampires are required to live in walled-in cities known as Coldtowns so as not to endanger human lives. The existence of vampires has also been thoroughly capitalized on and is viewed by many as glamorous. The novel itself can be classified as supernatural romance.
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The Coldest Girl In Coldtown is a 2013 young adult supernatural romance novel by HollyBlack. It takes place in a world where the existence of vampires is known by the general populace. Vampires are required to live in walled-in cities known as Coldtowns so as not to endanger human lives. The existence of vampires lives.
Tana Bach wakes one morning after a party to find a massacre. There's no question that it was vampires, and she discovers two survivors: her ex-boyfriend Aidan, who hasalso been thoroughly capitalized on infected, and Gavriel, an imprisoned vampire. After a narrow escape from the crime scene, Tana is viewed determined to save the three of them by many as glamorous. The novel itself can be classified as supernatural romance.
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''"We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside.”''
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''"We labor under so many illusions about ourselves until we're stripped bare. Being infected, being a vampire, it's always you. Maybe it's more you than ever before. You, distilled. You, boiled down like a sauce. But it's you as you always were, deep down inside.”''
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* TheCasanova: Aidan
* ClothingDamage: Tana's outfits frequently suffer this, but it serves as an indication of trauma rather than fanservice.
* ClothingDamage: Tana's outfits frequently suffer this, but it serves as an indication of trauma rather than fanservice.
* CoordinatedClothes: Midnight and Winter wear coordinated clothes.
* CreepyTwins: Midnight and Winter try to invoke this in-universe.
* CreepyTwins: Midnight and Winter try to invoke this in-universe.
* GoingForTheBigScoop: The reason Bill Story chose to stay in Coldtown.
* Goth: The twins, Midnight and Winter.
* Goth: The twins, Midnight and Winter.
* IntrepidReporter: Bill Story
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* MindGameShip: How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aiden.
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* PetTheDog: Aiden may be kind of a dick, but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Winter to Midnight.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Gavriel and Tana's relationship has shades of this. [[spoiler:Gavriel states that he loves Tana because she is the only person who has ever saved him.]]
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* TheHunter: Bounty hunters are not uncommon, and rewards are offered by both the government and individuals for capturing and/or killing vampires.
** Hemlock is a famous bounty hunter with his own reality TV show that Pearl is a fan of.
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* TheHunter: Bounty hunters are not uncommon, and rewards are offered by both the government and individuals for capturing and/or killing vampires.
** Hemlock is a famous bounty hunter with his own reality TV show thatvampires. Pearl is a fan of.of Hemlock the Vampire Hunter, a reality television series.
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* VampireVannabe: The motivations for humans who go to Coldtowns.
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* VampireVannabe: The motivations for humans who go to Coldtowns.Coldtowns.
* VampireVords: Averted with Gavriel, who was a Russian aristocrat but is described by Tana as having an unidentifiable accent.
* VampireVords: Averted with Gavriel, who was a Russian aristocrat but is described by Tana as having an unidentifiable accent.
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* DrivenToMadness: [[spoiler:Oh, Gavriel.]]
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe vampirism is a virus. Infected people are referred to as having "gone cold." It can take up to sixty-eight days to heal from the time of being bitten, and if a person consumes human blood before the infection is out of their system they'll turn into a vampire.
** It is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to keep someone who's gone cold contained. Legally, the infected are required to be sent to Coldtowns just like vampires.
** It is difficult, dangerous, and expensive to keep someone who's gone cold contained. Legally, the infected are required to be sent to Coldtowns just like vampires.
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* CombatPragmatist: Tana, who has no formal weapons or martial arts training.
* TheDragon: The Thorn of Istra
* TheDragon: The Thorn of Istra
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**Hemlock is a famous bounty hunter with his own reality TV show that Pearl is a fan of.
* LightIsNotGood/DarkIsNotEvil: Lucien and Gavriel respectively.
* MindGameShip: How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aiden.
* MoralityChain: Tana is arguably one for Gavriel.
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* MindGameShip: How Tana thinks of her relationship with Aiden.
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* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The description of Gavriel's torture when he was imprisoned in Paris.]]
* PetTheDog: Aiden may be kind of a dick, but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:Tana and Gavriel]]
** [[spoiler:Has shades of BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Gavriel's stated reason for his loyalty to and affection for Tana is that she is the only person who has ever rescued him.]]
* PetTheDog: Aiden may be kind of a dick, but he's always been nice to Pearl, Tana's little sister.
* RescueRomance: [[spoiler:Tana and Gavriel]]
** [[spoiler:Has shades of BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Gavriel's stated reason for his loyalty to and affection for Tana is that she is the only person who has ever rescued him.]]
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* TheVamp: Elisabet is hinted at having been this before living in Coldtown.
* VampiresAreSexGods: How vampires are perceived in-universe by a large subset of the human population.
* VampiresAreSexGods: How vampires are perceived in-universe by a large subset of the human population.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a 2013 young adult novel by HollyBlack. It takes place in a world where the existence of vampires is known by the general populace. Vampires are required to live in walled-in cities known as Coldtowns so as not to endanger human lives. The existence of vampires has also been thoroughly capitalized on and is viewed by many as glamorous. The novel itself can be classified as supernatural romance.
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The Coldest Girl in In Coldtown is a 2013 young adult novel by HollyBlack. It takes place in a world where the existence of vampires is known by the general populace. Vampires are required to live in walled-in cities known as Coldtowns so as not to endanger human lives. The existence of vampires has also been thoroughly capitalized on and is viewed by many as glamorous. The novel itself can be classified as supernatural romance.romance.
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!! Tropes present in this series include:
* FantasticGhetto: The Coldtowns that vampires are sent to and humans choose to enter in hopes of getting turned and partying for eternity.
* NightmareFetishist: Midnight in spades.
* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is obsessed with vampires and immortality.
* VampireVannabe: The motivations for humans who go to Coldtowns.
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!! Tropes present in this series include:
* FantasticGhetto: The Coldtowns that vampires are sent to and humans choose to enter in hopes of getting turned and partying for eternity.
* NightmareFetishist: Midnight in spades.
* StrangeGirl: Midnight, who has blue hair and is obsessed with vampires and immortality.
* VampireVannabe: The motivations for humans who go to Coldtowns.
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