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* [[Expy]] - The protagonist, Melanie seemed to remind me of someone from another book Meyer has written recently... I just can't put my [[Twilight (novel)|finger]] on it.
** Naturally, it follows: Say Melanie's full name out loud. Now say the author's name. [[Author Avatar|Do you hear it?]]
** Also, the Souls themselves, who are a rehash of a very old idea.<ref>[[Stargate SG-1|The Goa'uld]], the parasites from ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', the Bodysnatchers, the [[Animorphs|Yeerks]] - all of which were (knowingly or not) inspired by ''[[The Puppet Masters]]''.</ref>
* [[Extreme Doormat]] - Wanderer. Even the human colonists eventually get annoyed.
* [[Fantastic Racism]] - implied, in that it never occurs to the souls that maybe they shouldn't be taking over the minds of every species they run across and essentially wiping them out. One species commits mass suicide to escape them; rather than rethink their system the souls cheerily continue infesting the ones who didn't escape in time, pausing only briefly to regret the waste of host bodies.
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