History Literature / TheLegendOfRahAndTheMuggles

* DesertedIsland: Dezra, which is far from the shores of Aura and only Yur knows of its existance. Zyn swims there after his boat breaks, and discovers it's just a bare rock with a small cave.

* ChuckCunnighamSyndrome: ''Every single character'' (besides the brothers) who appears in the first two chapters is never brought up in the rest of the story.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The war at the beginning, the treasure chest, and ''every single character'' (besides the brothers) who appears in the first two chapters.

* AerithAndBob: The Nevils' names are Jitters, Fraidy, Boggs, Stubby, Patch and...Peter ([[SubvertedTrope altough he prefers to be called "chops"]]).

* MeaningfulName: This book has a very bad example of this trope: the Muggles are supposed to be named in a ceremony because of a particular sign or a behavior that shows in its infancy. However, some of the names don't make sense (Rah and Zyn, Yur and Golda, Peter, Patch...), some inexplicably match for loving couples (Pitter and Patter, Pick and Pluck), and some lead to UnfortunateImplications, such as Boggs, who is implied to [[ThePigPen smell bad and be covered in mud]] ''since birth''.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The world prior and after the war. The former was a peaceful civilisation kept through humanitarian charters, while the latter is a cutesy Teletubbies-like land. In between, humanity's greed and corruption festered on the inside of the former and lead to a nuclear holocaust, the ensuing radiation and mutations leading to the current adorable life forms.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The war at the beginning, the treasure chest, and ''every single character''
(besides the brothers) who appears in the first two chapters.
* WhenTreesAttack: The Manchineet Tree, while still inanimate, sheds radioactive pollen thatmakes Zyn and the Nevils sick.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: So which nation/continent is "Aura"?

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The war at the beginning, the treasure chest, and ''every single character'' (besides the brothers) who appears in the first two chapters.

* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Zyn is meant to be seen as this.

* DescriptionPorn: Stouffer apparently isn't aware that the children 6 to 12 years old (the target audience) don't care about overly long and elaborate descriptions of ''everything''.

* PlotHole: So many that the "plot" resembles a block of Swiss cheese.

* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The Calendar is reset by a nuclear war. The problem is that it starts with a "Year of the purple haze" (nuclear fallout), which could refer toany year following the endof the nuclear war.

* MeaningfulName: This book has a very bad example of this trope: the Muggles are supposed to be named in a ceremony because of a particular sign or a behavior that shows in its infancy. However, some of the names don't make sense (Rah and Zyn, Yur and Golda, Peter, Patch...), some inexpicably match for loving couples (Pitter and Patter, Pick and Pluck), and some lead to UnfortunateImplications, such as Boggs, who is implied to [[ThePigPen smell bad and be covered in mud]] ''since birth''.

Simply put, ''Rah and the Muggles'' is to children's literature what ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon'' is to swords and sorcery, minus the [[SoBadItsGood unintentional hilarity]]. For a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the story, [[http://www.magespace.net/mugrev.html this link]] should tell you just about all you need to know. If you want to know more, see Tropers/ZeldaQueen's [[http://zelda-queen.livejournal.com/29637.html more detailed dissection.]] [[SchmuckBait Or you could buy the book]] or [[DigitalPiracyIsOkay download a pirate copy of it]].

[[caption-width-right:180:[[MemeticMutation It's a Trap!]]]]

* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: The Calendar is reset by a nuclear war. The problem is that it starts with a "Year of the purple haze" (nuclear fallout), when every single year in living memory has been a year of purple haze!

* MeaningfulName: This book has a very bad example of this trope: the Muggles are supposed to be named in a ceremony because of a particular sign or a behavior that shows in its infancy. However, some of the names don't make sense (Rah and Zyn, Yur and Golda, Peter, Patch...), some inexpicably match for loving couples (Pitter and Patter, Pick and Pluck), and some lead to UnfortunateImplication, for example Boggs, which is implied to smell bad and be covered in mud ''since birth''.

* NobodyPoops

* ElementalBaggage: Rah apparently has so much fluid in his tear ducts that his crying can sink boats.

* HowDoIUsedTense: This book is known for switching from past to present tense back and forth, often in the course of a single sentence.

* HowDoIUsedTense: Stouffer has the habit of switching into present tense and back in the course of a single sentence.

** The Nevils and Zyn gorge themselves with the food stolen by the Muggles after seven years of eating nothing but seaweed and meager grass. Suddend and copious eating in such condition would have been devastating on their already frail health.

* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: The word "Bugger" is uttered often in the book. Apparently Stouffer was not aware that it's a very offensive word in both British and Australian English.

** How allergies are represented in this book. One can't simply pass out after having an allergy: in most cases, there would be cutaneous eructions, rashes and severe irritations. The worst that could happen are asthma or respiratory problems that could lead to lacks of oxygen and therefore fainting. This means that, even if Zyn didn't intend to kill Rah, provoking an allergy on him so that he has no air and faints, would mean giving him a slow and painful death.

* EvilRedhead: Zyn. Altough not exactly "evil" per se, the author perpetuates this stereotype.

* AndThatsTerrible: Stouffer will repeatedly shove to the reader's face the fact that Zyn is evil, either via the Muggles (including ''her adoptive mother'') or via herself as the narrator.