History Literature / PenrynAndTheEndOfDays

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: While we're never told Raffe's height, Penryn is 5'2, which is small by human standard, and seeing how Raffe is an immortal warrior angel, he's probably at least six feet tall.

* TechnicalVirgin: Ever since some angels got banished to hell for messing around with human women and making the [[HalfHumanHybrid Nephilim]] sex between humans and angels has been forbidden. However, since AllMenArePerverts a lot of angels are getting around this rule by doing everything but the one thing that can make a baby.

** Pooky Bear is ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''s teddy bear

** Penryn's strong bond to her sister is possibly a Shout Out to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'''s Katniss and Primrose Everdeen.

* ''End Of Days'' (forthcoming)

%% * CreepyChild: The Nephilim Penryn encounters. [[spoiler: And later on, her sister Paige.]]

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Penryn falls back on quite harsh, if desperate measures, to get to Paige, like brute force and blackmail. Many humans live as gangs, terrorizing, 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, unholy offspring of angels and humans. If the humans slept with the angels voluntarily is not clear.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The Nephilim are children of angels and humans.

%% * HumanoidAbomination: The Nephilim [[spoiler: including Paige, after Penryn saves her.]]

* InterspeciesRomance: Between Penryn and Raffe, subtly. It is also hinted at the apocryphal occasion when some angels fell in love with human women. Nephilim ensued.

* {{Nephilim}}: Here they are angel/human hybrids.

* HalfHumanHybrid / {{Nephilim}}: The Nephilim are children of angels and humans.

* HalfHumanHybrid / {{Nephilim}} The Nephilim are children of angels and humans.

* HalfHumanHybrid: The Nephilim are children of angels and humans.

* CryCute: In World After, [[spoiler: soon after Raffe realizes Penryn is alive, for one of the few times in the series he doesn't hide his emotions and cries.]]

* [[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]]. Later it's revealed he can [[spoiler:reattach wings]], despite there being no mention of his education on angel biology/anatomy.

* [[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.]]

%% * BrokenAngel: Raffe.

%% * ChekhovsGun: The pet tracker.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In ''Angelfall'', after a few days, the amputation of his wings doesn't seem to bother Raffe much, as least physically.

* {{Waif Fu}}: When trained soldier Boden attacks her in the rebel camp, nobody expects Penryn to win. [[spoiler: She does so nonetheless, though with some realistic difficulty.]]
* {{What Measure Is A Non Super}}: The angels refer to the humans as “monkeys”.

* {{Tall Dark And Handsome}}: Raffe, of course.
* {{Tall Dark And Snarky}}: Raffe, again, but Penryn also has shades of this.
* TeenSuperspy: Dee-Dum, natch.
* {{The Mentally Disturbed}}: Penryn's mother.
* {{Twenty Minutes Into The Future}}

* ScaryScorpions: The Locusts are somewhere between this, BodyHorror and InsectoidAliens.
* {{She Cleans Up Nicely}}: [[spoiler:To disguise herself as Raffe's consort to get into the aerie,]] Penryn dons a little red dress, strappy shoes, and makeup. Raffe is stunned for a moment when he first sees her like this.
* {{Shout Out}}:

** Obi's spymasters Dee-Dum look, act, and talk in a manner comparable to [[Literature/HarryPotter the Weasley twins]].
** Their name is of course a ShoutOut to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''
* SmokingIsCool: Uriel
* StockholmSyndrome: What Paige seemingly developed towards Beliel. [[spoiler: Later, though, she chews him up.]]
* SympathyForTheDevil: [[spoiler:What Paige does to Beliel and the lack of reaction from everybody else]] can easily evoke this.

* {{Obfuscating Insanity}}: Not even Penryn knows how sane her mother is. If the demons and ghosts she keeps talking to are real or due to her paranoid schizophrenia remains unexplained.
** 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".]]
* {{Our Angels Are Different}}: They are stunningly beautiful, but arrogant and very dangerous humanoids. Plus, they are physically stronger than humans, have much lighter bodies, and have a heightened sense of sight, smell, and hearing.
* {{Rebel Leader}}: Obidiah.

* {{Mad Doctor}}: Laylah.
* {{Mad Scientist Laboratory}}: [[spoiler:Where Penryn eventually finds Paige.]]
* {{Major Injury Underreaction}}: After a few days, the amputation of his wings doesn't seem to bother Raffe much, as least physically. In contrast...
* {{Minor Injury Overreaction}}: Justified. Raffe is not used to walking long distances, so his feet become raw pretty quickly and he starts moaning.
* {{Estrogen Brigade Bait}}: Raffe and Obi, as well as almost every other angel.
* {{Never Found The Body}}: Gabriel. At least the humans didn't.

* {{La Resistance}}: They have no formal name as of the first book.
* {{Light Is Not Good}}: The angels, while very beautiful, are strong, brutal, and elitist.

* {{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, up to and including risking his life at gunpoint to return her to her family]].

* {{If Its You Its Okay}}: Even though she understandably hates angels, Penryn starts to feel attracted to Raffe.
* {{Ill Girl}}: Paige, a 7-year-old little girl bound to a wheel chair [[spoiler: At first.]]
* {{Interspecies Romance}}: Between Penryn and Raffe, subtly.
** It is also hinted at the apocryphal occasion when some angels fell in love with human women. Nephilim ensued.

* {{Half Human Hybrid}}: The Nephilim are children of angels and humans.
* {{Healing Factor}}: The angels absolutely have this, to the point where bullets are almost the only thing that can kill them.
* {{Humanoid Abomination}}: The Nephilim [[spoiler: including Paige, after Penryn saves her.]]

* GirlPosse: Uriel loves himself some.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Penryn hopes that this trope makes a teddy bear a fine disguise for her/Raffe's sword.
* {{Gone Horribly Right}}: [[spoiler:What Laylah does to Paige and all the others.]]
* {{Good Wings Evil Wings}}: [[spoiler:While not ''good'' per se, feathered wings are those of actual angels, while angels fallen from grace have leathery batlike wings.]]
** There is quite a variety of wing colors 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 and blackmail. Many humans live as gangs, terrorizing, 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, unholy offspring of angels and humans. If the humans slept with the angels voluntarily is not clear.

* {{Fallen Angel}}: (Duh!) [[spoiler:Beliel likely is one. Raffe gets marked as one, too.]]
* FluffyTheTerrible: The highly dangerous, crafty spymasters who seemingly got their eyes (and hands) just about everywhere? Their names are Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

* {{End Of The World As We Know It}}: Happened six weeks before the story starts.

* Downer Ending: In ''Angelfall'', [[spoiler: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.]]