History Literature / BetsyTheVampireQueen

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler: Marc]].
** Initially, they don't exist until [[spoiler: Betsy makes them.]]
* PetHomosexual: Marc.
* ScrewDestiny: Betsy attempts this, usually to miserable failure.
** It becomes a major plotline after ''Undead and Unfinished.'' [[spoiler: Where Betsy must keep herself from becoming an EvilOverlord.]]
* StableTimeLoop: Over the course of ''Undead and Unfinished'', Betsy becomes part of several. [[spoiler: Subverted near the end, when she meets her evil future self. The future self acts like this is the case at first... and then Betsy ''completely'' deviates from her future self's memories, throwing her off.]]
** The timeline is now completely shot to hell.
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: How Satan goes out.]]

* UngratefulBastard: The [[spoiler: Fiends]] once they regain their intelligence.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: As of the epilogue of ''Undead and Unforgiven''.
* UnclePennybags: Jessica.
* VampireFiction
* VampireMonarch: Betsy and Eric.
* WakingUpAtTheMorgue: Betsy has one of these moments, though it's a funeral home.

* WideEyedIdealist: Laura, best demonstrated by this quote:
--> '''Laura (enthusiastically)''': Once we convince the rest of the world [of the existence of God], things would change overnight! No more wars, no more murders.
* YourVampiresSuck: How Betsy reacts to the Nostro dominated vampires of the world.
** Amusingly, Betsy is largely a traditional vampire with a stake through the heart immobilizing her and sunlight making her fall asleep. It's other vampires who are more traditional Hollywood Vampires with massive weaknesses to sunlight and holy items.

* AlternateHistory: In a minor way, though not to Betsy. [[spoiler: Her and Laura's travels through time cause, among other things, Christian Louboutain to not be born. The shoe obsessed Betsy treats this as a worse tragedy than if both the Nazis and the Confederacy had won their respective wars.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Book of the Dead.
** Betsy's first engagement ring, as well. It grants your wishes... [[spoiler:[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor in the most destructive way it can.]]]]
* BadassNormal: The Blade Warriors, a group of teenage vampire hunters.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo: The Book of the Dead pretty much predicts every single plot development.
* BigBad: Nostro. [[spoiler: Though he dies very quickly.]]
** ''Undead and Unfinished'' introduces a new one: [[spoiler:Betsy's future self.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: As the series goes on, Laura seems to fall more and more deeply into this category.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: This series is somewhere between this and GreyAndGrayMorality.
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: The way Laura believes the world is.
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Betsy.
* AChatWithSatan: Betsy regularly has these. Satan apparently resembles Lena Olin.

* DeadpanSnarker: Sinclair.
* TheDevil: Appears as a middle-aged woman, in fact, a dead ringer for Lena Olin.

* DoingInTheWizard: A really weird case. [[spoiler: Future Betsy writes the ''Book of the Dead'' and sends it back in time.]]

* FirstPersonSmartAss: Betsy herself.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Betsy herself. A large portion of her problems comes from attempting to make every other vampire in the world into one.

* FutureMeScaresMe: Future Betsy is mighty scary indeed in ''Undead and Unfinished''.
** Laura's attempts to avert this [[spoiler: backfire horribly.]]

* GeniusDitz: Betsy at vampiredom.

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: How other vampires view Betsy.
** Later played straight with [[spoiler: Ancient Betsy.]]
* GreyAndGrayMorality: This series is somewhere between this and BlackAndGrayMorality.

* HandsomeLech: Sinclair, pre-Betsy.
* {{Hellfire}}: Laura is capable of generating this.
* HeroicBSOD: Sinclair in the second book, when [[spoiler: Betsy's been staked and, they think, killed.]] As Father Markus said, "It would have been touching if it wasn't so terribly, terribly sad."

* {{Hypocrite}}: Laura.
--> '''Betsy''': You actually managed to make me being ''in Hell'', doing ''your job'', sound like a character flaw, or like I was rude to keep your Great Idea waiting.

* [[KnightTemplarParent Knight Templar Sister]]: Laura in ''Undead and Unwelcome''.

* TheMasquerade: [[spoiler: Until Laura decides to blow it]] in ''Undead and Unforgiven''.
* {{Motormouth}}: Betsy in a nutshell.
* MyGirlIsNotASlut: Betsy's friend keeps a calendar of her sexual activity to try and encourage her to get more action; Sinclair has daily orgies with his three girlfriends on black silk sheets.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Lampshaded on several occasions with Betsy.
* NotHimself: Betsy struggles with this due to [[spoiler: fasting, The Book of the Dead, and evil future selves.]]
* OneSteveLimit: Subverted with the Ant and Antonia.
** Later subverted when [[spoiler: The Ant dies.]]

--> '''Betsy''': Music/Andrea Bocelli? Who the hell is she?

--> '''Betsy''': Andrea Bocelli? Who the hell is she?

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Sinclair and Betsy, though that may be "Vampires have good sex."

* BlackBestFriend: Jessica.

[[redirect:Literature/{{Undead}}]]

* ''Betsy the Vampire '', the first four books collected into one anthology.
* ''Betsy Bride of the Vampire'', a collection of books five through seven, plus the short story ''Dead and Loving It''.

* AChatWithSatan: Betsy regularly has these. Satan apparently resembles Creator/LenaOlin.

* TheDevil: Appears as a middle-aged woman, in fact, a dead ringer for Creator/LenaOlin.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Betsy [[spoiler: kills Satan]]. No, seriously.

* [[KnightTemplarParent Knight Templar Sister]]: Laura in ''Undead and Unwelcome''

* TheUnmasquedWorld: As of ''Undead and Unforgiven''.

* AntiAntichrist: Laura, the Devil's Daughter, is firs introduced as this, but as the series goes on, she appears less and less "good", what with murdering people (specifically serial-killers, but ''still''), dumping her job (ruler of Hell) on her sister and then accusing her of robbing her of her birthright, etc...

''Betsy the Vampire Queen'', properly known as the ''Undead'' series, is a ParanormalRomance book series by [=MaryJanice=] Davidson about Betsy Taylor. Betsy loses her job and is killed in the same day (her 30th birthday), but awakes undead in a funeral home. After attempting multiple times to kill herself, Betsy realizes that she is a vampire — not only a vampire, but queen of the vampires.

* AntiAntiChrist: Laura, the Devil's Daughter, is firs introduced as this, but as the series goes on, she appears less and less "good", what with murdering people (specifically serial-killers, but ''still''), dumping her job (ruler of Hell) on her sister and then accusing her of robbing her of her birthright, etc...

* AntiAntiChrist: Laura, the Devil's Daughter. [[spoiler: Mostly.]]
** [[spoiler: As of ''Undead And Unstable'' she seems to be playing it straight.]]

* The Masquerade: [[spoiler: Until Laura decides to blow it]] in ''Undead and Unforgiven''.

--> '''Betsy''': Hmm, my groveling wasn't going quite the way I planned.

* InsultedAwake: In order to get Betsy out of a near-comatose state, Eric (her fiance) shouts, "I'm terribly sorry, but I cannot go through with the wedding!" She snaps and begins to yell at him before realizing what he was trying to do.

* ''Undead and Unwed''
* ''Undead and Unemployed''
* ''Undead and Unappreciated''
* ''Undead and Unpopular''
* ''Undead and Uneasy''
* ''Undead and Unworthy''
* ''Undead and Unwelcome''
* ''Undead and Unfinished''
* ''Undead and Undermined''
* ''Undead and Unstable''
* ''Undead and Unsure''

* FurVersusFang: Subverted. For the longest time werewolves and vampires each thought the other race was a myth. When they finally meet the results are...awkward, but not actively hostile.