History Literature / PenrynAndTheEndOfDays

* {{Deadly Decadent Court}}: The angels certainly show hints of being this.
* {{Disappeared Dad}}: Penryn's father left because he could no longer cope with his mentally ill wife.
* [[spoiler:{{Downer Ending}}: Paige is recovered and can walk again, but now she is an inhuman monster feeding on people. Penryn is badly wounded and is brought back to Obi's camp. Raffe got wings sewn back on, only they aren't his, they're Beliel's bat-like wings, marking him as an outcast.]]
* {{Dumb Muscle}}: When he says that every idiot would have caught them, Penryn dryly remarks that their captor Boden at least is right in that she and Raffe were caught by an idiot.

* {{Cat Fight}}: Between Penryn and Anita--another girl in Obi's camp. Orchestrated by the Dee-Dum twins.
* ChekhovsGun: The pet tracker.
* CompanionCube: The angel swords, while sort of sentient, are basically this to their respective owners.
* {{Council of Angels}}: There are higher and lower ranking angels, as well as fallen ones. The author explicitly stated she didn't want her angels to be strictly Christian, so there are no hints of any God in this book.
* {{Creepy Child}}: The Nephilim Penryn encounters. [[spoiler: And later on, her sister Paige.]]

* {{Badass}}
** {{Badass In Distress}}: How Penryn meets Raffe
** {{Badass In A Nice Suit}}: Raffe when [[spoiler:he and Penryn go into the Aerie]].
* BadassBoast: Subverted; Penryn claims that no one takes those seriously anyway.
* BadBoss: Beliel in a nutshell
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Penryn's whole motivation to infiltrate the aerie is to get her little sister back by any means necessary.
* {{Big Fancy House}}: The Aerie used to be a hotel.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Raffe, close to the end of the first book. Also Paige and the other humans who were experimented on. The Locusts. Beliel.]]
* {{Broken Angel}}: Raffe.

* {{Action Girl}}: Penryn, fullstop. Her mother signed her up for a lot of self-defense and martial arts courses and she damn well has memorized what she learned there.
* {{Action Survivor}}: Again, Penryn.
** Also Clara.
* {{After The End}}: The second book is called ''World After'' for a reason.
* AllLovingHero: Penryn's little sister, Paige [[spoiler: before being experimented on.]] She was a vegetarian before the apocalypse and only ate meat because Penryn insisted, and gives Beliel water despite being severely dehydrated herself.
* [[ArtisticLicense Artistic License - Medical Research]]: Apparently only ''one'' human who can't even suture straight developed and performed the operations done on [[spoiler:the low demons.]]
* AllegedLookalikes: Penryn and Andi, wearing CoordinatedClothes and makeup.

-> Penryn: ''"You're not Fallen, are you?"''
-> Raffe: ''"From what I've heard, that would just make me sexier to you Daughters of Men."''
* {{Alone In A Crowd}}: Josiah

{{Needs More Love}}.

* {{The Messiah}}: Penryn's sister, Paige. For example, she gives water to Beliel despite being severely dehydrated herself.

* {{The Messiah}}: Penryn's sister, Paige. She gives water to Beliel despite being severely dehydrated herself.

* StockholmSyndrome: What Paige seemingly developed towards Beliel. [[spoiler:Later, though, she chews him up.]]

** {{Badass Damsel}}: Penryn may be a skinny teenage girl, but she will kick your butt!

* In the second book, [[spoiler:She certainly helped some people who were seemingly dead but actually just paralyzed to stay alive by making them look like part of a satanic ritual. No one wanted to touch them, while all the other victims got BuriedAlive. There is also the pet tracker with the chips sewn into the starburst she sews on every single one of Penryn and Paige's pants "for protection".]]

* Also Clara.

-> Raffe: ''"From what I've heards, that would just make me sexier to you Daughters of Men."''

* StockholmSnydrome: What Paige seemingly developed towards Beliel. [[spoiler:Later, though, she chews him up.]]

* InsectsAreAbhorrent: As far as the Locusts can be called insects.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Raffe, close to the end of the first book. Also Paige and the other humans who were experimented on.]]

* {{CatFight}}: Between Penryn and Anita--another girl in Obi's camp. Orchestrated by the Dee-Dum twins.

* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Penryns whole motivation to infiltrate the Aerie is to get her little sister back by any means necessary.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Raffe, close to the end of the first book. Also Paige and the other humans experimented on.]]
* {{Broken Angel}}: Raffe

* {{Creepy Child}}: The nephilim Penryn encounters.

* [[spoiler:{{Downer Ending}}: Paige is recovered and can walk again, but now she is an inhuman monster feeding on people. Penryn is badly wounded and is brought back to Obi's camp. Raffe got wings sewn back on, but they aren't his, but Beliel's bat-like wings, marking him as an outcast.]]

** There is quite a variety of wing colours among the angels, but Raffe's are [[ManInWhite pure white]].
* {{Grey and Gray Morality}}: Penryn falls back on quite harsh, if desperate measures, to get to Paige, like brute force or blackmail. Many humans live as gangs, terrorising, mugging and killing others and trading with parts of angels. Others live as servants and courtesans to the angels. Most of the angels, however brutal and dangerous, don't even know why they were sent to Earth. That the humans shot their leader might be a motivation for their cruelty as well. There are also the nephilim, offspring of angels and humans. If the humans slept with the angels voluntarily is not clear.
* {{Half Human Hybrid}}: The nephilim are children of angels and humans.
* {{Healing Factor}}: The angels have this.
* {{Humanoid Abomination}}: [[spoiler:Paige, after Penryn saves her.]]
** The nephilim

* {{Ill Girl}}: Paige

** It is also hinted at the apocryphal occassion when some angels fell in love with human women. Nephilim ensued.
* {{Jerk With A Heart Of Gold}}: Raffe acts aloof and belittling towards Penryn but [[spoiler:towards the end, he does stupid things just to help her]].
* {{La Resistance}}
* {{Light Is Not Good}}: The angels, while very beautiful, are strong, brutal and elitist.
* {{Mad Doctor}}: Laylah

* {{Estrogen Brigade Bait}}: Obi as well as almost every single angel.

* {{Obfuscating Insanity}}: Not even Penryn knows how sane her mother is. If the demons and ghosts she keeps talking of are real or due to her paranoid schizophrenia remains unexplained.
* {{Our Angels Are Different}}: They are stunningly beautiful, but arrogant and very dangerous humanoids. They are also physically stronger than humans, have lighter bodies, and have a heightened sense of sight, smell, and hearing.
* {{Rebel Leader}}: Obi
* {{She Cleans Up Nicely}}: [[spoiler:To disguise herself as Raffe's consort to get into the Aerie,]] Penryn dons a little red dress and puts on makeup. Raffe is stunned for a moment when he first sees her like this.

** Penryn's strong bond to her sister is likely a Shout Out to ''Literature/TheHungerGames''
** Obi's spymasters Dee-Dum look, act, and talk like [[Literature/HarryPotter the Weasley twins]].
** Their name is of course a Shout Out to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''

* {{Waif Fu}}: When trained soldier Boden attacks her in the rebel camp, nobody expects Penryn to win. She does so nonetheless.

* ''World After ''(upcoming)

* {{What Measure Is A Non Super}}: The angels refer to the humans as “monkeys”.
* {{White Haired Pretty Boy}}: Josiah

On the way, they witness strange murders involving [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], and stumble into the camp of a [[LaResistance rebel group]] led by the charismatic Obi. All the while, Penryns mother, who was the only person present when Paige became paraplegic, who doesn't stop rambling about demons and who made Penryn learn all sorts of self-defense so whatever happened to Paige won't happen to her, stays close to them, unseen.

* BodyHorror: Raffe, [[spoiler:''twice.'']]

!! Penryn and the End of Days contains examples of: