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** Jonas Marsden immediately picks up on the tension between Cassie and Pritkin when he first meets her, and seems to think that she and Pritkin are sleeping together. He tries to put them in the same bedroom when they wind up at his house in ''Curse the Dawn'', despite having known Cassie for all of an hour and despite the fact that [[FreakyFridayFlip their bodies were swapped]] at the time.

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** Jonas Marsden immediately picks up on the tension between Cassie and Pritkin when he first meets her, and seems to think that she and Pritkin are sleeping together. He tries to put them in the same bedroom when they wind up at his house in ''Curse the Dawn'', despite having known Cassie for all of an hour and despite the fact that [[FreakyFridayFlip their bodies were swapped]] her body was swapped with Pritkin's]] at the time.
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** While they appear to have died hundreds of years ago, neither [[spoiler: Elena Basarab]] nor [[spoiler:Gillian Urswick]] actually died

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** While they both [[spoiler: Elena Basarab]] and [[spoiler:Gillian Urswick]] appear to have died hundreds of years ago, neither causing a great deal of anguish to [[spoiler: Elena Basarab]] nor [[spoiler:Gillian Urswick]] actually diedMircea]] and [[spoiler:Kit Marlowe]], respectively, they are revealed to be alive at the end of ''Fortune's Blade''
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Ares, Apollo, Princess Morgaine, Vlad Basarab, and Billy Joe]]
** While they appear to have died hundreds of years ago, neither [[spoiler: Elena Basarab]] nor [[spoiler:Gillian Urswick]] actually died
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* BodyguardCrush: After a disastrous first meeting where he attempts to kill Cassie and very nearly succeeds, John Pritkin is forced to team up with her, and they eventually come to an understanding after she offically becomes Pythia. He swears himself to her service and becomes her bodyguard/partner-in-crime, and they eventually fall in love and end up together.
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* AxCrazy: Aeslinn (at least in the modern era), Jo, Jonathan, and Vlad are all unstable and show various degrees of psychopathic behavior.
** The Aeslinn that Cassie and [[spoiler: the younger version of Pritkin]] encounter in Faerie and at Arthur's court is vicious and bigoted against any and all [[HalfHumanHybrid half-blood fey]], but he isn't shown to be outright psychotic.


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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Both dragons and Weres can shift between an animal form and a human one, although Weres are magical humans and dragons are a type of Dark Fey.
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** Coven witches and members of the Silver Circle hate each other due to the events of the Coven Wars, which took place during the Elizabethan era.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each of the Cassandra Palmer books are called ''Verb'' the ''Noun'', starting with ''Touch the Dark''
** The noun in the title is sometimes traditionally associated with magic, such as the night or the moon.
** In some cases, the title refers to a major event or symbol in the books . For example, ''Hunt the Moon'', book 5 in the series, partof the story involves Cassie searching for the goddess Artemis, whose symbol was the moon.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: Neither [[spoiler: Elena Basarab]] nor [[spoiler:Gillian]] actually died. Both of them appear alive and well in [[spoiler: ''Fortune's Blade'']] although Mircea and Cassie learn that [[spoiler: Elena was not actually killed by Vlad]] in ''Shatter the Earth''.

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* KillTheGods: Since several of the old gods serve as the [[GreaterScopeVillain antagonists]] in the series, defeating them becomes a priority. Ultimately, [[spoiler: Ares]], [[spoiler:Apollo]] and the briefly-seen [[spoiler:Athena]] get killed off.
** [[spoiler:Artemis]] gets killed by a [[ExternalCombustion car bomb]] twenty years before the events of the main series.



** Pritkin's wife Ruth, who died sometime during the Victorian Era.

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** John Pritkin's wife Ruth, who died sometime during the Victorian Era.
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* Necromancer: A handful of characters are necromancers, including Cassie, Roger Palmer, Jo, and Jonathan.
** Cassie and Roger both have powers that work with ghosts, rather than more "traditional" necromantic powers relating to zombies.

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* Necromancer: {{Necromancer}}: A handful of characters are necromancers, including Cassie, Roger Palmer, Jo, and Jonathan.
** Cassie and Roger both have powers that work with ghosts, rather than more "traditional" necromantic powers relating to zombies.zombies and the manipulation of dead or undead flesh.
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* OurElvesAreDifferent: All the various kinds of fey are the results of [[spoiler:experiments by the gods to create soldiers for their wars]]
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* ThanatosGambit: In ''Ride the Storm'', Cassie learns that [[spoiler: her parents]] engineered their own deaths in order to [[spoiler: protect her and maintain the integrity of the ourobouros spell protecting Earth from the gods]].
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** Jonas Marsden immediately picks up on this and seems to think that Cassie and Pritkin are sleeping together. He tries to put them in the same bedroom when they wind up at his house in ''Curse the Dawn'', despite having known Cassie for all of an hour and despite the fact that [[FreakyFridayFlip their bodies were swapped]] at the time.

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** Jonas Marsden immediately picks up on this the tension between Cassie and Pritkin when he first meets her, and seems to think that Cassie she and Pritkin are sleeping together. He tries to put them in the same bedroom when they wind up at his house in ''Curse the Dawn'', despite having known Cassie for all of an hour and despite the fact that [[FreakyFridayFlip their bodies were swapped]] at the time.

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Louis-Cesare and Dorina.

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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Louis-Cesare and Dorina.Dory. They ultimately [[spoiler: wind up married]].


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** Jonas Marsden immediately picks up on this and seems to think that Cassie and Pritkin are sleeping together. He tries to put them in the same bedroom when they wind up at his house in ''Curse the Dawn'', despite having known Cassie for all of an hour and despite the fact that [[FreakyFridayFlip their bodies were swapped]] at the time.
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# ''Fortune's Blade'' (announced, publication date TBD)

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* {{Seers}}: Cassie is one, as are Rhea and some of the girls who make up her court.


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* Necromancer: A handful of characters are necromancers, including Cassie, Roger Palmer, Jo, and Jonathan.
** Cassie and Roger both have powers that work with ghosts, rather than more "traditional" necromantic powers relating to zombies.


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* {{Seers}}: Cassie is one, as are Rhea and some of the girls who make up her court.
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* GetARoom: Casanova shouts this at Cassie and Pritkin after listening to their bickeing during their [[ToHellAndBack escape from hell]] in ''Tempt the Stars''.

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* GetARoom: Casanova shouts this at Cassie and Pritkin after listening to their bickeing during their [[ToHellAndBack [[EscapedFromHell escape from hell]] in ''Tempt the Stars''.

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* GetARoom: Casanova shouts this at Cassie and Pritkin in ''Tempt the Stars'' during their [[ToHellAndBack escape from hell]].

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* GetARoom: Casanova shouts this at Cassie and Pritkin in ''Tempt the Stars'' after listening to their bickeing during their [[ToHellAndBack escape from hell]]. hell]] in ''Tempt the Stars''.


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* WalkIntoMordor: Cassie takes Caleb, Rian, and Casanova with her to [[ToHellAndBack rescue Pritkin from his father's court]] on Kazallu, the world ruled by the incubi. To do this, they have to spend an entire day trekking across a desert, make their way into Zarr Alim, the capital city, and then break into Rosier's palace.

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