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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alice likes being barefoot.
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* AliceAllusion: A girl named Alice is having adventures in a very strange land, where laws of nature themselves are mutable and Time is a person you can talk to. Not to mention "Killing Time" is an actual crime there and you can be executed (by [[ToServeMan being eaten]]) for even flimsier reasons. And you get there through a magical hole. Three guesses what this is similar to.

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* AliceAllusion: A girl named Alice is having adventures in a very strange land, where laws of nature themselves are mutable and Time is a person you can talk to. Not to mention "Killing Time" is an actual crime there and you can be executed (by [[ToServeMan being eaten]]) for even flimsier reasons. And you get there through a magical hole. And sometimes you shrink in size. Three guesses what this is similar to.

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* AliceAllusion: A girl named Alice is having adventures in a very strange land, where laws of nature themselves are mutable and Time is a person you can talk to. Three guesses what this is similar to.

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* AliceAllusion: A girl named Alice is having adventures in a very strange land, where laws of nature themselves are mutable and Time is a person you can talk to. Not to mention "Killing Time" is an actual crime there and you can be executed (by [[ToServeMan being eaten]]) for even flimsier reasons. And you get there through a magical hole. Three guesses what this is similar to.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: And how.

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* HeroicRRod: any magic user who overextends his/her magic will slowly loose his/her magic power, which result in their body loosing color. If this goes to far, the person dies. [[spoiler: Laylee comes dangerously close.]]

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* HeroicRRod: HeroicRrod: any magic user who overextends his/her magic will slowly loose his/her magic power, which result in their body loosing color. If this goes to far, the person dies. [[spoiler: Laylee comes dangerously close.]]



* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim : This argument convinces Laylee to stop after she [[spoiler: took command of the raised dead and ordered citizens of Whichwood humiliated. She was about to go further, but Alice convinced her otherwise]]



* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: when the ghosts attack Whichwood, Laylee, despite being on a verge of collapse, manages to stop the ghosts and save everyone - except four people that is. Had she not intervened the would be ober ''forty'' people dead. How do Whichwood's people react to it? By [[executing her father]] and subjecting Laylee to a KangarooCourt!

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: when the ghosts attack Whichwood, Laylee, despite being on a verge of collapse, manages to stop the ghosts and save everyone - except four people that is. Had she not intervened the would be ober ''forty'' people dead. How do Whichwood's people react to it? By [[executing [[spoiler: executing her father]] and subjecting Laylee to a KangarooCourt!
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* PlatonicBoyGirlHeroes: Alice and Oliver.
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* SurpisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:

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* AlienGeometries: happens a lot in Furthermore, including a 2-D village.

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* AlienGeometries: happens Happens a lot in Furthermore, including a 2-D village.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
** The sequel, compared to the first book. People actually die here. And whereas Alice got her father back, [[spoiler: Laylee's father is executed]].



* HeroicRRod: any magic user who overextends his/her magic will slowly loose his/her magic power, which result in their body loosing color. If this goes to far, the person dies. [[spoiler: Laylee comes dangerously close.]]
* IAmAHumanitarian: In some Furthermore villages, people will ''eat'' any outsiders with magic if given any chance. that is a pretext, however flimsy, of convicting those of crimes like "killing time".



* NicejobFixingItVillain: when Alice [[spoiler: looses her arm]], she and Oliver has to make a detour to find a person who can repair the damage, who turns out to be none other than Alice's father. The trope comes into effect since while looking for Alice's father (who was convicted by Furthermore's authorities for espionage) would bring the heroes in trouble, looking for a [[spoiler: "mere" Painter]] does not.

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* NicejobFixingItVillain: NiceJobFixingItVillain: when Alice [[spoiler: looses her arm]], she and Oliver has to make a detour to find a person who can repair the damage, who turns out to be none other than Alice's father. The trope comes into effect since while looking for Alice's father (who was convicted by Furthermore's authorities for espionage) would bring the heroes in trouble, looking for a [[spoiler: "mere" Painter]] does not.not.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: when the ghosts attack Whichwood, Laylee, despite being on a verge of collapse, manages to stop the ghosts and save everyone - except four people that is. Had she not intervened the would be ober ''forty'' people dead. How do Whichwood's people react to it? By [[executing her father]] and subjecting Laylee to a KangarooCourt!
* NonNudeBathing: Laylee usually takes a bath fully clothed, the changes into new clothing. This is because her clothes tend to be very dirty (and bloody) after washing the dead.



* TheQuest: Every child who got a positive mark on Surrender gets one. One has not truly passed the ceremony until the Quest is completed.



* SkinnyDipping: Alice prefers to swim in the nude.



* SuperPowerLottery: Every person in Ferenwood has one magical gift. Doing anything else requires an extern magic source.

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* SuperPowerLottery: Every person in Ferenwood has one magical gift. Doing anything else requires an extern magic source.source.
* SurpisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Alice is an avid swimmer, but she usually swims nude or at most in underwear. When she is suddenly thrown into water fully clothed, she finds herself unable to swim until wriggling out of her upper clothing.
** When Alice and Oliver attempt to reason with the KangarooCourt judging Laylee, they have high hopes of convincing the court, but all their arguments fall on deaf ears - the verdict stood before the hearing even started. Only the intervention of [[spoiler: the dead]] saves Laylee.

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* BizarreAlienGeometries: happens a lot in Furthermore, including a 2-D village.
* CangarooCourt: The court that convicted Alice's father for espionage was clearly unfair.
** n "Whichwood" the court sentences [[spoiler: Laylee's Father, who was obviously insane]] to death and sentenced Laylee herself to [[spoiler: depowering]]. Only an intervention of [[spoiler: all the raised dead]] saves Laylee from the sentence being carried out.

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* BizarreAlienGeometries: AlienGeometries: happens a lot in Furthermore, including a 2-D village.
* CangarooCourt: The court that convicted Alice's father for espionage was clearly unfair.
** n "Whichwood" the court sentences [[spoiler: Laylee's Father, who was obviously insane]] to death and sentenced Laylee herself to [[spoiler: depowering]]. Only an intervention of [[spoiler: all the raised dead]] saves Laylee from the sentence being carried out.




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* KangarooCourt: The court that convicted Alice's father for espionage was clearly unfair.
** in "Whichwood" the court sentences [[spoiler: Laylee's Father, who was obviously insane]] to death and sentenced Laylee herself to [[spoiler: depowering]]. Only an intervention of [[spoiler: all the raised dead]] saves Laylee from the sentence being carried out.

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* BizarreAlienGeometries: happens a lot in Furthermore, including a 2-D village.
* CangarooCourt: The court that convicted Alice's father for espionage was clearly unfair.
** n "Whichwood" the court sentences [[spoiler: Laylee's Father, who was obviously insane]] to death and sentenced Laylee herself to [[spoiler: depowering]]. Only an intervention of [[spoiler: all the raised dead]] saves Laylee from the sentence being carried out.



* CompellingVoice:

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* CompellingVoice:CompellingVoice: Exaggerated with Oliver. He can make you believe everything he says or even ''thinks''. And later he even developes the power to force feople to do what he wants, albeit only for a brief time.
* DeathBringerTheAdorable: The yearly ceremony that Alice looks forward to in the beginning is called Surrender, but it doesn't (usually) involve fighting or violence. Rather, those who became twelve this year show what magical talent they got, and get TheQuest according to their talent. The quest always involves helping somebody.



* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: in the sequel, Laylee is ''so pissed'' at how Whichwood's people treat her that she goes berserk.

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* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: in the sequel, Laylee is ''so pissed'' at how Whichwood's people treat her that she goes berserk. [[spoiler: she raises the dead and those proceed to rampage through Whichwood]]



* HeartIsAwesomePower: The power to change colors of thing and of people is surely cool by itself, but the Alice realises that she can also [[spoiler: restore people's ''magic'' with it]].

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* HeartIsAwesomePower: GrowingUpSucks: Alice's father ''thrived'' in Furthermore when he was twelve, but when he returned as adult, he had big trouble adjusting and was ultimately falsely convicted of espionage.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
The power to change colors of thing and of people is surely cool by itself, but the Alice realises that she can also [[spoiler: restore people's ''magic'' with it]].



* PluckyGirl: Alice, who keeps going even after[[spoiler: loosing her arm]]

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Olivers constant lies bring Alice to a point where she would rather trust an origami fox than him. This results in Alice [[spoiler: loosing her arm]].
* NicejobFixingItVillain: when Alice [[spoiler: looses her arm]], she and Oliver has to make a detour to find a person who can repair the damage, who turns out to be none other than Alice's father. The trope comes into effect since while looking for Alice's father (who was convicted by Furthermore's authorities for espionage) would bring the heroes in trouble, looking for a [[spoiler: "mere" Painter]] does not.
* PluckyGirl: Alice, who keeps going even after[[spoiler: after [[spoiler: loosing her arm]]arm]].



* SlapSlapKiss: Downplayed. Alice and Oliver go from sworn enemies to best friends, but the do not become a couple. In the sequel the become romantically involved withg other people.

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* SlapSlapKiss: Downplayed. Alice and Oliver go from sworn enemies to best friends, but the do not become a couple. In the sequel the become romantically involved withg other people.people.
* SuperPowerLottery: Every person in Ferenwood has one magical gift. Doing anything else requires an extern magic source.

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* CreepyChild: Subverted. Alice surely ''looks'' somewhat strange - barefoot, dozens of bracelets, colorless skin - but she is a normal girl with quite a big heart.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alice likes being barefoot

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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alice likes being barefootbarefoot.
* DudeWhereIsMyRespect: in the sequel, Laylee is ''so pissed'' at how Whichwood's people treat her that she goes berserk.






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\n\n\n* SlapSlapKiss - downp66+556HeartIsAwesomePower: The power to change colors of thing and of people is surely cool by itself, but the Alice realises that she can also [[spoiler: restore people's ''magic'' with it]].
** In the sequel, Alice is also told that to complete her Quest, she should also had "used her heart", i.e. her compassion for others.

* PluckyGirl: Alice, who keeps going even after[[spoiler: loosing her arm]]
* SerialEscalation: Alice, the protagonist and POV of the first book, has good reasons to be ''unhappy''. Laylee, the protagonist and POV of the second book, has good reasons to be ''utterly miserable''.
* SlapSlapKiss: Downplayed. Alice and Oliver go from sworn enemies to best friends, but the do not become a couple. In the sequel the become romantically involved withg other people.

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* AliceAllusion: A girl named Alice is having adventures in a very strange land

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* AliceAllusion: A girl named Alice is having adventures in a very strange landland, where laws of nature themselves are mutable and Time is a person you can talk to. Three guesses what this is similar to.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Alice can change colors of nearly everything but '''not''' of herself. And she has very little color to begin with.
* DisappearedDad: Alice's father is missing since three years by the time the first book begins.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Alice likes being barefoot
* DuetoTheDead: The main theme of the sequel.



* SlapSlapKiss - downp66+556
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''Furthermore'' is a Fantasy book written 2016 by Creator/TaherehMafi.

The book depicts the adventures of a 12-years-old girl Alice in a very strange land "Furthermore", on a quest that is not hers, but which means everything to her.


A sequel named ''Whichwood'' was published in 2018. Alice and Oliver are also prominently featured there, but not the main protagonists.



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!!The novels make use of these tropes:

* AliceAllusion: A girl named Alice is having adventures in a very strange land

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