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[[File:Nightworld_Books_1_to_3_Omnibus_-_Cover_Art_740.gif|frame|Not a woman you want to mess with.]]

 

 

''Four less one and darkness triumphs.'' }}

 

''One from the twilight to be one with the dark.''|'''Aradia''', ''Huntress''}}

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Three in particular: Rashel Jordan, Jez Redfern and Raksha Keller.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Galen and Iliana. {{spoiler|Averted, much to Keller's relief.}}

* [[The Atoner]]: Ash, who leaves his soulmate at the end of ''Daughters of Darkness'' to make up for what he's done in the past.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Ash and Mary-Lynette.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't call Jez by her full name. {{spoiler|It pisses her off so much, that when her soulmate calls her "Jezebel" as she lies dying, she actually ''comes back'' in order to tell him never to call her that.}}

* [[Bigger Bad]]: In ''Witchlight'', the gang goes up against an astoundingly powerful [[The Dragon|dragon]], who tells them he was woken from his slumber by "a witch who is not a witch." Whoever ''that'' is, is bound to be even more terrifying.

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Redferns, starting ''all'' the way back with its founder, Maya, who drank the blood of babies to achieve immortality, turned a fellow tribesman into the first made vampire against his will, and fought her sister to the death.

** Also {{spoiler|Maggie}} in ''Black Dawn'' who is identified among the slaves as the Deliverer, come to free them from captivity.

* [[Continuity Cameo]]: L.J. Smith ''loves'' these. Ash and Thea have small roles in ''Secret Vampire'', and the two subsequent sequels feature them as the protagonists. Ash turns up again in ''Dark Angel'' and ''Soulmate.'' Likewise, Quinn features in ''Daughters of Darkness'' and then stars in ''The Chosen'', Aradia is in ''Spellbinder'' and then ''Black Dawn'', Hunter and Lily Redfern are introduced in ''The Chosen'': the former reappears in ''Black Dawn'' and the latter in ''Huntress'', and all the soulmates introduced up to that point appear in ''Soulmate.''

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Quite a few characters, almost always vampires: Ash, Quinn, Kestrel, Morgead and Nissa.

* [[Development Hell]]: The final book in the series, which was promised a few years ago.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Blaise. She mind-rapes (and probably sexually rapes) human boys with her love potions to get gifts and popularity and we even meet one particular boy that she has completely destroyed. Her punishment? Not a damn thing. Instead, we're supposed to like her at the end of the story!

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Rashel's weapon of choice. As she is a vampire hunter, it is of course wooden.

* [[Kiss of the Vampire]]: When the victim is willing or in a trance.

* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]]: Technically Poppy isn't a child, but she's described as "petite" and "pixie-like," and everyone is suitably devastated when she's diagnosed with cancer. Luckily she's also got a vampire for a best friend, which comes in handy if you're terminally ill.

* [[The Hunter]]

* [[The Load]]: Iliana, for most of ''Witchlight''.

* [[Love Potion]]: Used in ''Spellbinder'' after Thea accidentally challenges Blaise.

* [[Love Triangle]]: [[Triang Relations|Type 8.]] Yes, Soulmate Principle is in effect.

* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Jade. On meeting her Mark thinks: "Okay, so she ''is'' crazy. I don't care. I think I love her."

* [[The Messiah]]: Iliana. Even the cynical Keller recognises her beauty, compassion and purity:

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Pierce}} in ''Huntress'' and {{spoiler|Jaime, who is actually [[The Dragon]] in disguise}} in ''Witchlight''.

* [[Narm]]: Quite a few silly bits, but special mention has to be made of the covert SWAT team in ''Witchlight'' who drive around on their secret missions in a ''white limousine''. At one stage they even illegally park it on the footpath.

* [[Non-Action Guy]]: Hugh. He does his best though, bless him.

* [[Our Ghouls Are Creepier]]: In this continuity, ghouls are humans that did not successfully complete the transition into vampirehood, leaving them nearly brain-dead, difficult to kill, and with an insatiable bloodthirstiness. They're also really, really gross.

** There are two types of vampires at work in the world: those known as the lamia, who are born to the condition, are able to procreate, and can control their aging process, and made vampires, who are (obviously) humans who have been turned.

* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: They have powers that allow them to track people by something that appears to amount to psychic scent. They also can transform into a variety of animals, and, though it is never outright stated, look like they pick up some characteristics of their animal.

* [[Vampire Hunter]]: Rashel.

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Poppy eventually manages to win over James, her friend-since-preschool

* [[We Are Everywhere]]: They are, as James points out.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Lancers of ''The Chosen''.

* [[Wooden Katanas Are Even Better]]: Rashel's katana cuts through a vampire like "razor-sharp steel" through a human.

* [[You Already Changed the Past]]: In ''Black Dawn'' Prince Delos goes back in time to warn Maggie to leave the Dark Kingdom. However, when Maggie sees Delos in present-time, the fact that she recognises him from her dream ensures her determination to learn more about him, and events proceed as they originally did. Interesting, as she tells him about the dream, so he is aware that he already changed the past.

 

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