History Literature / FinalDestination

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Shiraz]]. While on the set for a music video, her hair extensions are caught in the spinning wheels of the car she’s in, nearly scalping her. When the director gets into an altercation with the set’s engineer, the car’s remote falls to the floor and smashes after a toolbox sends its contents flying on top of it... unfortunately, ''after'' the wheels turn back on, at high speed. Due to her hair extensions still being tangled in the wheels, this winds up twisting her head 180 degrees, killing her almost instantly.

* AssholeVictim: [[DrJerk Stewart Tubbs]] and Al Kinsey.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Hal Ward.

* FinalGirl: Patti Fuller.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Zack.

* MeaningfulName: Susan Fries.

* RecycledINSPACE: About half of the book is set in [[UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain 1888]] and involves a group surviving a house fire after one of them has a vision of it before it happens.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: James Barker and Bodil Raden]].

* FinalGirl: Louise King.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: Danny and Louise King.

* KilledOffForReal: Surprisingly subverted for [[spoiler:Louise.]] Played straight for everyone else, [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies including Danny]]]].
** [[spoiler:Kate]] gets a DoubleSubversion.

* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Arlen Ploog.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Officer Murphy.
* VivaLasVegas

* FinalGirl: Cabernet.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Gunter Nonhoff.

* TemptingFate: Oh, [[spoiler:Brut...]]

* VillainProtagonist: Sherry.

* AssholeVictim: [[{{Paparazzi}} Chelsea Cox]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dawson Donahue]] and [[RichBitch Dominique Swann]].

* DeathBySex: Hal Ward and Al Kinsey.

* OffWithHisHead: Al Kinsey.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Rose]] had an eating disorder and always longed to be thinner than she already was. Let's just say she got her wish.

* NeckSnap: While on the set for a music video, [[spoiler:Shiraz]]’s hair extensions are caught in the spinning wheels of the car she’s in, nearly scalping her. When the director gets into an altercation with the set’s engineer, the car’s remote falls to the floor and smashes after a toolbox sends its contents flying on top of it... unfortunately, ''after'' the wheels turn back on, at high speed. Due to her hair extensions still being tangled in the wheels, this winds up twisting Shiraz’s head 180 degrees, killing her almost instantly.]]

* NeckSnap: While on the set for a music video, [[spoiler:Shiraz]]’s hair extensions are caught in the spinning wheels of the car she’s in, nearly scalping her. When the director gets into an altercation with the set’s engineer, the car’s remote falls to the floor and smashes after a toolbox sends its contents flying on top of it... unfortunately, ''after'' the wheels turn back on, at high speed. Due to her hair extensions still being tangled in the wheels, this winds up twisting [[spoiler:Shiraz]]’s head 180 degrees, killing her almost instantly.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Rose]] had an eating disorder and always longed to be thinner than she already was. Let's just say she got her wish.

Beautiful young fashion model Stephanie “Sherry” Pulaski has her entire world torn apart when she foresees the sinking of a chartered yacht. Although she succeeds in saving herself and several fellow models from the disaster, it is at the cost of her highest prized asset: her physical beauty. Scarred and embittered, she agrees to help the Grim Reaper correct the imbalance in its grand design and win back her looks-by luring her former friends back into Death's clutches. Will Sherry’s need to reclaim her former beauty prove stronger than her love for her friends? Or is evil—like beauty—more than skin deep?

A beautiful young fashion model has her entire world torn apart when she foresees the sinking of a chartered yacht. Although she succeeds in saving herself and several fellow models from the disaster, it is at the cost of her highest prized asset: her physical beauty. Scarred and embittered, she agrees to help the Grim Reaper correct the imbalance in its grand design and win back her looks-by luring her former friends back into Death's clutches. Will her need to reclaim her former beauty prove stronger than her love for her friends? Or is evil-like beauty-more than skin deep?

[[folder:Dead Man's Hand]]
When Annie Goodwin travels to the desert oasis of Las Vegas, she hopes to turn her life around for the better in the casinos. Life's dealt her a rotten hand and her current luck seems to be no different. But when Annie has a premonition of a terrible accident in which she and her husband Tom will die, she takes steps to stop it from happening. Annie, Tom and three other people survive the ordeal and cheat Death. But in a town where the odds are always in the house's favour, can Annie hope to beat the Reaper in this game when she's drawn the Dead Man's Hand?

* BookEnds: Whenever a survivor dies, we are given a rewrite of their introduction paragraph.
* BringMyBrownPants: Arlen Ploog pisses his pants after he's smacked around and almost killed by a criminal.
* DeadMansHand: Alluded to in the title. Also shows up in the storyline.
* DeathByIrony: Shawna despises big felines, yet she gets killed by a Jaguar. And no, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_Cars we don't mean the cat]].
* DeathBySex: [[spoiler: Arlen Ploog.]]
* DecoyProtagonist: Aldis Escobar. The entire first chapter is dedicated to him... and he dies in a car accident on the last page of it, long before the book's disaster (the collapse of a glass elevator) even occurs.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Tom is run over by a truck, and shortly after his funeral, [[FinalGirl Annie]] finds out she has a malignant form of HIV]].
* EvilElevator: One of these is the opening disaster. A big glass elevator attached to the outside of "Merlin's Tower" winds up plummeting down onto the street below, killing everyone in it and some other bystanders.
* GroinAttack: One of the {{Necro Non Sequitur}}s ends with a survivor getting his penis bitten off by the prostitute who was giving him head.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Officer Murphy.
* VivaLasVegas
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[[folder:Dead Reckoning]]
The lead guitarist of an all-girl rock band predicts the destruction of the club they're about to play in. A handful of survivors escape death only for the Grim Reaper to pick them off one by one.
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!!Tropes:

[[folder:Death of the Senses]]
When homeless man Jack Curtis saves young policewoman Amy Tom from a psychopath, killing him in self-defense, he unknowingly saves six other people--all young, successful and famous figures in New York City--who had been marked for death. But Death will not be denied his prize. Jack and Amy find that they are faced with a rising body count as they try to find and save the other victims before it's too late

* AssholeVictim: [[{{Paparazzi}} Chelsea Cox]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dawson Donahue]] and [[RichBitch Dominique Swann]].
* EyeScream: Chelsea gets a two-pronged icicle through ''both'' of her eyes.
* SerialKiller: Instead of a large-scale disaster, the book takes the arguably more interesting route of having the visionary kill a would-be serial killer who had intended to murder several people, who the main character must now desperately track down as Death starts working down the dead lunatic's hit list.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Destination Zero]]
A journalist discovers that a Victorian England relation of hers escaped from the clutches of Jack the Ripper, and ultimately, Death itself. Now Patti Fuller must learn how to cheat Death too, by finding out how her great-great-grandmother did it all those years ago
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!!Tropes:

An international group of students are in New York on a cultural exchange. They've been promised the trip of a lifetime. But what they don't realize is that it might just be the last trip they ever take.

[[folder:Looks Could Kill]]
A beautiful young fashion model has her entire world torn apart when she foresees the sinking of a chartered yacht. Although she succeeds in saving herself and several fellow models from the disaster, it is at the cost of her highest prized asset: her physical beauty. Scarred and embittered, she agrees to help the Grim Reaper correct the imbalance in its grand design and win back her looks-by luring her former friends back into Death's clutches. Will her need to reclaim her former beauty prove stronger than her love for her friends? Or is evil-like beauty-more than skin deep?

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Tom is run over by a truck, and shortly after his funeral, [[FinalGirl Allie]] finds out she has a malignant form of HIV]].

* [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Keep Circulating The Books]]: Only a few copies were released, due to the majority of them being recalled due to wrong author being credited in one place. Even the ''Final Destination'' wiki has little information on this one due to its rarity.

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[[AC:Dead Man's Hand]]

[[AC:Dead Reckoning]]

[[AC:Death of the Senses]]

[[AC:Destination Zero]]

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Zack Halloran's death is spoiled on the ''very'' '''''FIRST PAGE''''' before the actual story even begins.

[[AC:End of the Line]]

[[AC:Looks Could Kill]]

* IntercontinuityCrossover: Though [[LawyerFriendslyCameo never identified by name]], the detective in the UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain segments is obviously Franchise/SherlockHolmes.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: Though never identified by name, the detective in the UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain segments is obviously Franchise/SherlockHolmes.

* BuryYourGays: After everything Chardonnay went through growing up, she ends up dying anyway.

* SerialKiller: Instead of a large-scale disaster, the book takes the arguably more interesting route of having the visionary kill a would-be serial killer who had intended murder several people, who the main character must now desperately track down as Death starts working down the dead lunatic's hit list.

* TheBouncer: Sebastian Lebecque. Also a BadassBiker.

* DeadMansHand: Alluded to in the title.

* IntercontinuityCrossover: Though never identified by name, the detective in the VictorianBritain segments is obviously Franchise/SherlockHolmes.

* RecycledINSPACE: About half of the book is set in [[VictorianBritain 1888]] and involves a group surviving a house fire after one of them has a vision of it before it happens.

* GenreRoulette: The book jumps from modern horror, Gothic horror,and action(in one chapter)

* GerneRoulette: The book jumps from modern horror, Gothic horror,and action(in one chapter)