History Literature / NeverLetMeSleep

* EssentialMadness: Whether it’s the way her brain naturally works, or the medication she takes for her disorders, Melissa is the only person not effected by the death sleep.

* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. Thomas Harrison and David Hood. Homeland Security manages to contact Melissa after she calls the hotline by monitoring all calls in and out of Onida. David Hood becomes her point of contact [[Spoiler: until he heads to Onida to help her, in which Thomas then personally takes on that role.]]

* ActionSurvivor: Melissa Allen
* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. Thomas Harrison and David Hood. Homeland Security manages to contact Melissa after she calls the hotline by monitoring all calls in and out of Onida. David Hood becomes her point of contact [[Spoilers: until he heads to Onida to help her, in which Thomas then personally takes on that role.]]

* Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.

* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. Thomas Harrison and David Hood. Homeland Security manages to contact Melissa after she calls the hotline by monitoring all calls in and out of Onida. David Hood becomes her point of contact [[Spoilers: until he heads to Onida to help her.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Melissa, at the end of Never Let Me Sleep, collapses next to [[spoiler: the dying David]] and gives over to madness. From her HappyPlace of escaping with him in a truck to Nebraska, she hears a radio drama of a girl who smothered her sister and brother-in-law in their sleep and is now being detained in a hospital.

* ImaginaryEnemy: Played With. The lights and the Fedoras in Never Let Me Sleep. [[spoiler: The lights and the Fedoras are the same creatures, and they are very real.]]

* MadnessMantra: Melissa develops one at the end of Never Let Me Sleep during her HeroicBSOD.

* ''Never Let Me Sleep:'' Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.

* ''Never Let Me Sleep:'' Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security thanks to her malfunctioning ankle monitor, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.

* ''NeverLetMe:'' Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security thanks to her malfunctioning ankle monitor, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.

* ''NeverLetMeLeave:'' After the events of the previous book, Melissa is "invited" to PAR Lab, so she and other survivors can be studied. But shortly after her arrival, things go horribly wrong when something is released from its cell and communications to the outside world are cut off. Now, Melissa and her new friends must escape from the lab and an enemy can infect anyone.


* ''NeverLetMeDie:''

* ActionSurvivor: Melissa in the first book, she starts her upgrade to ActionGirl in book two.
* BadassFamily: Carrie, Melissa, and Adam were all essentially adopted by Heather.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Book two and three [[spoiler: confirm that events of book one are real.]]

* PuppeteerParasite - The Coalescence.

* ''Never Let Me Sleep:'' Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security thanks to her malfunctioning ankle monitor, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.

* ''[[LateArrivalSpoiler Never Let Me Leave:]]'' After the events of the previous book, Melissa is "invited" to PAR Lab, so she and other survivors can be studied. But shortly after her arrival, things go horribly wrong when something is released from its cell and communications to the outside world are cut off. Now, Melissa and her new friends must escape from the lab and an enemy can infect anyone.


* ''Never Let Me Die:''

* BadassFamily: Carrie, Melissa, and Adam were all essentially adopted by Heather who trains them to fight.

* UnreliableNarrator – Justified. Melissa is aware of her schizophrenia and starts off uncertain of just how much of her current situation is real.
* TheWoobie – Melissa Allen. She’s diagnosed at ten. At twelve, her dog is killed. On her thirteenth birthday, she and her parents are hit by a drunk driver, and while she survived, they were killed on impact. Fifteen months later, she’s the protagonist of a sci-fi, horror novel.

* [[LateArrivalSpoiler ''Never Let Me Leave:'']] After the events of the previous book, Melissa is "invited" to PAR Lab, so she and other survivors can be studied. But shortly after her arrival, things go horribly wrong when something is released from its cell and communications to the outside world are cut off. Now, Melissa and her new friends must escape from the lab and an enemy can infect anyone.

* ''Never Let Me Leave:'' After the events of the previous book, Melissa is "invited" to PAR Lab, so she and other survivors can be studied. But shortly after her arrival, things go horribly wrong when something is released from its cell and communications to the outside world are cut off. Now, Melissa and her new friends must escape from the lab and an enemy can infect anyone.

Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security thanks to her malfunctioning ankle monitor, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.

* Determinator: Melissa has to deal with being the only survivor of small town, fighting off fedoras and hallucinations alike. She is slashed multiple times and burned at least one.

* Hallucinations: Melissa has several over the course of the story and is consistently running her surroundings through a reality filter to keep track of them.

HeroicBSOD: Melissa, at the end of Never Let Me Sleep, collapses next to [[spoiler: the dying David]] and gives over to madness. From her HappyPlace of escaping with him in a truck to Nebraska, she hears a radio drama of a girl who smothered her sister and brother-in-law in their sleep and is now being detained in a hospital.

* ActionSurvivor: Melissa in the first book, she starts her upgrade to Action Girl in book two.

* MaddnessMantra: Melissa develops one at the end of Never Let Me Sleep during her HeroicBSOD.

In Never Let Me Sleep, Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security thanks to her malfunctioning ankle monitor, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.

In Never Let Me Sleep, Melissa Allen, a fourteen-year-old, paranoid schizophrenic, wakes up to find the entirety of her town has died in their sleep. When she’s contacted by Homeland Security thanks to her malfunctioning ankle monitor, they tell her that she is the only person they know of who is still alive within the “South Dakota Quarantine Zone” and that they desperately need her help to find out what’s going on. Worse than that, she’s not alone. Something, provided they’re not just hallucinations, is hunting her.