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** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya off-page, [[StuffedIntoTheFridge for the sole purpose of hurting Davey]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya off-page, [[StuffedIntoTheFridge [[TargetedToHurtTheHero for the sole purpose of hurting Davey]].]]
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* VampiresAreRich: Discussed. Almost every vampire in the book lives a lavish lifestyle, often owning one or more pieces of property.
* YourCheatingHeart: Burgess was sleeping with his student, Denise, while he was married to Sheila.
* YourCheatingHeart: Burgess was sleeping with his student, Denise, while he was married to Sheila.
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* VampiresAreRich: Discussed. Almost every vampire in the book lives a lavish lifestyle, often owning one or more pieces of property.
* YourCheatingHeart: Burgess was sleeping with his student, Denise, while he was married to Sheila.property.
* YourCheatingHeart: Burgess was sleeping with his student, Denise, while he was married to Sheila.
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** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya offscreen in ''Night Life'', [[StuffedIntoTheFridge for the sole purpose of hurting Davey]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya offscreen in ''Night Life'', off-page, [[StuffedIntoTheFridge for the sole purpose of hurting Davey]].]]
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* GratuitousRape: The rape scenes are excessive and don't serve much purpose beyond trying to point out that the bad guys are bad guys.
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* InformedAttribute: It's stated that the majority of vampires a monsters, but mostly, we only get to see the good guy vampires.
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* InformedAttribute: It's stated that the majority of vampires a are monsters, but mostly, we only get to see the good guy vampires.
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* InformedAttribute: It's stated that the majority of vampires a monsters, but mostly, we only get to see the good guy vampires.
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* ElderlyImmortal: Mrs. Dupassie was in her 80s when she was turned, apparently as a cruel joke.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In addition to their characteristics from the previous book, they're now (inexplicably) a lot more vulnerable to sunlight,[[labelnote:note]]Anya briefly mentioned in ''Live Girls'' that they have a mild sensitivity to light, but never implies that the sun is deadly[[/labelnote]] but can eat human foods, get ripped at the gym, and apparently have functional plumbing. There are also shown to be two separate types of vampires: the "brutals", who make up the majority of their species and fit into the AlwaysChaoticEvil stereotype, and the more human-like vampires, such as Davey and Casey, who try to "live" as fully human as possible.
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TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but at least she offered to teach Davey how to properly feed without needing to kill anyone. The destruction of Live Girls just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but at least she offered to teach Davey how to properly feed without needing to kill anyone. The destruction of Live Girls just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
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* BadBoss: Heavily implied with Victor Barna. Castlebeck is clearly intimidated by him, and he more or less seems to suggest that the price of failing him is quite harsh.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but at least she offered to teach Davey how to properly feed without needing to kill anyone. The destruction of Live Girls just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Benedek manages to kill one of the vampires sent to kill him, just as he'd hoped to.]]
TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but at least she offered to teach Davey how to properly feed without needing to kill anyone. The destruction of Live Girls just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but at least she offered to teach Davey how to properly feed without needing to kill anyone. The destruction of Live Girls just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
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** [[spoiler:Anya herself is given this treatment; after nearly 20 years, Davey finds that she’s still around and kills her in a quick fight with a pair of shotgun blasts.]]
* FatBastard: Frank Castlebeck. He's a scuzzy porn director who owned a joint of strip clubs and brothels, and some of his stars are unwilling before Victor Barna forced him into selling them.
* FatBastard: Frank Castlebeck. He's a scuzzy porn director who owned a joint of strip clubs and brothels, and some of his stars are unwilling before Victor Barna forced him into selling them.
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** [[spoiler:Anya herself is given this treatment; after nearly 20 years, Davey finds that she’s still around her "alive" in the Royal Arms Hotel, and kills her in a quick fight with a pair of shotgun blasts.]]
* FatBastard: Frank Castlebeck. He's a scuzzy porn director who owned a joint of strip clubs and brothels, and some (if not most) of his stars are unwilling before Victor Barna forced him into selling them.
* FatBastard: Frank Castlebeck. He's a scuzzy porn director who owned a joint of strip clubs and brothels, and some (if not most) of his stars are unwilling before Victor Barna forced him into selling them.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Dupassie. She was turned in her eighties, and she's a psychic who offers her services to both brutals and normal vampires.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Dupassie. She was turned in her eighties, and she's a psychic who offers her services to both brutals and normal more civilized vampires.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Dupassie. She was turned in her eighties, and she's a psychic who offers her services to both brutals and normal vampires.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Victor Barna is a vampiric real estate mogul, and also a sex trafficker who owns an underground porn ring, along with a seedy hotel where his victims are held captive to be tortured, raped, and fed on.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Victor Barna is a vampiric real estate mogul, and also a sex trafficker who owns an illegal underground porn ring, along with a seedy hotel where his victims are held captive to be tortured, raped, and fed on.
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** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya offscreen in ''Night Life''.]]
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** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya offscreen in ''Night Life''.Life'', [[StuffedIntoTheFridge for the sole purpose of hurting Davey]].]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Justified, in that there are brutals working on the force to cover up vampiric crimes. However, there's a more straightforward example with Officer Keaton, who somehow managed to convince himself that Davey didn't really shapeshift in front of him.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but the destruction of her club just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but the at least she offered to teach Davey how to properly feed without needing to kill anyone. The destruction of her club Live Girls just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Denise mistakes her husband for crazy and is horrified by his behavior, is abducted and brought to star in a porn film wherein she’s brutally raped, then left horribly traumatized by the entire ordeal.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Barna is quite a pleasant man. He'll even politely greet you as he forces you to watch him feed on your girlfriend.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: [[SarcasmMode Barna is quite a pleasant man.man]]. He'll even politely greet you as he forces you to watch him feed on your girlfriend.
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* VampiresAreRich: Discussed. Almost every vampire in the book lives a lavish lifestyle, often owning one or more pieces of property.
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* VampiresAreRich: Discussed. Almost every vampire in the book lives a lavish lifestyle, often owning one or more pieces of property.property.
* YourCheatingHeart: Burgess was sleeping with his student, Denise, while he was married to Sheila.
* YourCheatingHeart: Burgess was sleeping with his student, Denise, while he was married to Sheila.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Barna is quite a pleasant man. He'll even politely greet you as he forces you to watch him feed on your girlfriend.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHer:
** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya offscreen in ''Night Life''.]]
** [[spoiler:Anya herself is given this treatment; after nearly 20 years, Davey finds that she’s still around and kills her in a quick fight with a pair of shotgun blasts.]]
** [[spoiler:Casey is unceremoniously killed by Anya offscreen in ''Night Life''.]]
** [[spoiler:Anya herself is given this treatment; after nearly 20 years, Davey finds that she’s still around and kills her in a quick fight with a pair of shotgun blasts.]]
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* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but the destruction of her club just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]]]
* VampiresAreRich: Discussed. Almost every vampire in the book lives a lavish lifestyle, often owning one or more pieces of property.
* VampiresAreRich: Discussed. Almost every vampire in the book lives a lavish lifestyle, often owning one or more pieces of property.
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* AffablyEvil: Isaac Krieger is a car thief and SerialRapist, but an otherwise friendly fellow who gets along with Davey. Although Davey said he only [[FauxAffablyEvil "comes off" as nice]].
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Keoph refers to himself as "not what you'd call politically correct". However, this seems to be a purely InformedAttribute, as he never says anything that could really be deemed offensive. Karen ''might'' be a more straight-forward example, in that she's said to find the idea of sleeping with a woman "mildly repulsive".
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''Night Life'' is the 2007 sequel to Ray Garton's ''Literature/LiveGirls''.
Davey Owen and Casey Thorne, now vampires, are happily married and living in Los Angeles, writing screenplays. Meanwhile, a curious horror author who caught wind of the destruction of Live Girls hires a couple of private investigators to find out if vampires are actually real. Thus the horror begins again ...
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!!Tropes featured in ''Night Life'' include:
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Norman is an absolutely kind-hearted young man, but won’t hesitate to take down some brutals when he hears about their evil deeds.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Karen has been rescued from the hotel and the carnage that Davey and his friends have left behind will raise questions about the existence of vampires. But Karen and Denise still have to deal with the trauma of being violated, and Davey is alone, now that Casey is dead.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Victor Barna is a vampiric real estate mogul, and also a sex trafficker who owns an underground porn ring, along with a seedy hotel where his victims are held captive to be tortured, raped, and fed on.
* DecapitationPresentation: Done to [[spoiler:Davey with Casey's severed head in a package.]]
* FatBastard: Frank Castlebeck. He's a scuzzy porn director who owned a joint of strip clubs and brothels, and some of his stars are unwilling before Victor Barna forced him into selling them.
* GentleGiant: Norman is 6'5" and well-built, but he’s one of the nicest characters in the books.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Anya evaded the destruction of Live Girls in the first book, only to be blown away by Davey right after he finds her in the Royal Arms Hotel.]]
* MoralMyopia: Anya [[spoiler:murders Casey as revenge for Davey blowing up Live Girls,]] despite the fact that she and her fellow vampires had been using that joint to lure in horny men to feed on, and ruined Davey's life in the first place.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Casey, Karen, and Denise are dragged off to an underground porn ring, where they’re forced to perform in some horribly degrading scenes to break them down.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Walter, Casey, and Anya all die here.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but the destruction of her club just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
Davey Owen and Casey Thorne, now vampires, are happily married and living in Los Angeles, writing screenplays. Meanwhile, a curious horror author who caught wind of the destruction of Live Girls hires a couple of private investigators to find out if vampires are actually real. Thus the horror begins again ...
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!!Tropes featured in ''Night Life'' include:
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Norman is an absolutely kind-hearted young man, but won’t hesitate to take down some brutals when he hears about their evil deeds.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Karen has been rescued from the hotel and the carnage that Davey and his friends have left behind will raise questions about the existence of vampires. But Karen and Denise still have to deal with the trauma of being violated, and Davey is alone, now that Casey is dead.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Victor Barna is a vampiric real estate mogul, and also a sex trafficker who owns an underground porn ring, along with a seedy hotel where his victims are held captive to be tortured, raped, and fed on.
* DecapitationPresentation: Done to [[spoiler:Davey with Casey's severed head in a package.]]
* FatBastard: Frank Castlebeck. He's a scuzzy porn director who owned a joint of strip clubs and brothels, and some of his stars are unwilling before Victor Barna forced him into selling them.
* GentleGiant: Norman is 6'5" and well-built, but he’s one of the nicest characters in the books.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Anya evaded the destruction of Live Girls in the first book, only to be blown away by Davey right after he finds her in the Royal Arms Hotel.]]
* MoralMyopia: Anya [[spoiler:murders Casey as revenge for Davey blowing up Live Girls,]] despite the fact that she and her fellow vampires had been using that joint to lure in horny men to feed on, and ruined Davey's life in the first place.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Casey, Karen, and Denise are dragged off to an underground porn ring, where they’re forced to perform in some horribly degrading scenes to break them down.]]
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Walter, Casey, and Anya all die here.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler:Anya was already villainous in ''Live Girls'', but the destruction of her club just seemed to make her that much more of an evil bitch. She supports Barna's sex trade, murders Casey to spite Davey, and takes Karen into her room just to have her way with her.]]
