History Literature / TheSuddenAppearanceOfHope

* WorldTour: Within the first 100 pages alone, the story takes place in UsefulNotes/{{Dubai}}, then Muscat, then UsefulNotes/Istanbul. Then she goes to Tokyo, Korea, San Francisco, crosses America by bus to spend time in New York, goes to London, then Nimes in France and Venice and Milan in Italy. All of this is justified because her job means she has no fixed living place and lives in hotels, plus she has to go on the run from Prometheus when the story starts.

* WorldTour: Within the first 100 pages alone, the story takes place in UsefulNotes/Dubai, then Muscat, then UsefulNotes/Istanbul. Then she goes to Tokyo, Korea, San Francisco, crosses America by bus to spend time in New York, goes to London, then Nimes in France and Venice and Milan in Italy. All of this is justified because her job means she has no fixed living place and lives in hotels, plus she has to go on the run from Prometheus when the story starts.

** The 90s dance-pop hit "Macarena" by Los del Rio is often [[EarWorm stuck in Hope's he*ad]], and she recites it to herself to calm herself down if needed.

* CoolBigSis: Hope to her little sister Faith, who is physically and mentally disabled and will need a lot medical care for her entire life. Prior to developing her "condition", Hope is a very loving and devoted sister to Faith. Hope has to leave her family at sixteen, but as an adult she donates big sums of money to the institution where Faith then lives, to ensure that Faith gets good care--all of this anonymously, so no one knows Hope was actually the one donating the money.

On what is supposed to be a routine job for Hope--stealing a diamond necklace during a party in the Burj Khalifa Hotel in Dubai--she has a chance meeting with two girls, Rheina and Leena, who introduce Hope to the app "Perfection". Perfection is an app/social network that tells its users what to do to make them "perfect", developed by the [[TheSyndicate sinister syndicate]] Prometheus. Hope is instantly appalled by the idea of this and wants nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, Perfection has turned Rheina bulimic and depressive, and she commits [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] shortly after meeting Hope. Thereupon, Hope now wishes to steal the diamonds not only for the money, but to [[ItsPersonal take revenge]] on the makers of Perfection, who organized the party where she was planning to steal the diamonds.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Hope is mixed-race, her mother coming from sub-Saharan Africa and her father being a white Englishman. She remarks that she stands out in the crowds because of this, and is implied to easily pass for different ethnicities.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Hope is mixed-race, her mother coming from sub-Saharan Africa and her father being a white Englishman. She remarks that she stands out in the crowds because of this.

* PolyGlot: Hope speaks many other languages besides English, and even knows how to write Chinese characters. Probably justified since she constantly travels all over the world.

** The 90s dance-pop hit "Macarena" by Los del Rio is often [[EarWorm stuck in Hope's head]], and she recites it to herself to calm herself down if needed.

On what is supposed to be a routine job for Hope--stealing a diamond necklace during a party in the Burj Khalifa Hotel in Dubai--she has a chance meeting with two girls, Rheina and Leena, who introduce Hope to the app "Perfection". Perfection is an app/social network that tells its users what to do to make them "perfect", developed by the [[TheSyndicate sinister syndicate]] Prometheus. Hope is instantly appaled by the idea of this and wants nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, Perfection has turned Rheina bulimic and depressive, and she commits [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] shortly after meeting Hope. Thereupon, Hope now wishes to steal the diamonds not only for the money, but to [[ItsPersonal take revenge]] on the makers of Perfection, who organized the party where she was planning to steal the diamonds.

* UnrequitedCrush: Hope has long been in love with a man called Luca Evard; she has met him a few times, spent a few days/nights with him and slept with him, but of course he forgets her and isn't aware of this. When she meets Luca (again) at the end of the book, she tells him they have met before but he doesn't seem to care, and even reacts appaled at her revelation they had sex, as if she's beneath him.

* TheBeautifulElite: Invoked and deconstructed: Perfection claims to make its users "perfect" and to turn them in to the beautiful, wealthy elite. There's even a special club within Perfection's user that only the users that score a million points get access to, and they are the most exclusive of the exclusive.

A 2016 science fiction/thriller written by Claire North, [[NomDePlume pseudonym of]] Creator/CatherineWebb.

* TheLostLenore: Downplayed since he is not dead--but then again ''she'' might as well be dead to ''him''... Hope has been in love for years with, and is still pining for, an Interpol agent called Luca Evard. Unfortunately, given Hope's "problem", he doesn't remember ever meeting her, of course.

After the theft of the diamonds, Hope start being followed and threatened by associates of Prometheus, who are now after her because they feel she offended them by "ruining their party". It soon becomes apparent that Hope has bitten of a bit more than she can chew this time, and she soon has to flee accross the world from Prometheus. Still wanting revenge on the makers of the Perfection, she teams up with a woman code-named "byron14", who proposes Hope undergoes Perfection's "treatments" because that might cure her "condition".

* BookDumb: As a teenager, Hope doesn't do well in school, and teachers say to her she will never achieve anything. Then at age 16 she develops her "condition", and consequently has to drop out of school, so she doesn't even have a secondary school diploma. As an adult she is very smart and resourceful though, and has a lot of knowlege.

* KryptoniteFactor: Hope's modus operandi is based on that people will forget her, so that she can get away with anything. Her weak point, however, is CCTV and other types of recordings: as long as someone looks at a photo of her, they will ''not'' forget her. As such, she is alway on the lookout for cameras, and tries to avoid places that have them. Also, recordings such as fingerprints are a threat to her.
* TheLostLenore: Downplayed since he is not dead--but then again he might as well be to her... Hope has been in love for years with, and is still pining for, an Interpol agent called Luca Evard. Unfortunately, given Hope's "problem", he doesn't remember ever meeting her, of course.

On what is supposed to be a routine job for Hope--stealing a diamond necklace during a party in the Burj Khalifa Hotel in Dubai--she has a chance meeting with two girls who are Saudi-Arabian royalty, cousins Rheina and Leena, who introduce Hope to the app "Perfection". Perfection is an app/social network that tells its users what to do to make them "perfect", developed by the [[TheSyndicate sinister syndicate]] Prometheus. Hope is instantly appaled by the idea of this and wants nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, Perfection has turned Rheina bulimic and depressive, and she commits [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] shortly after meeting Hope. Thereupon, Hope now wishes to steal the diamonds not only for the money, but to [[ItsPersonal take revenge]] on the makers of Perfection, who organized the party where she was planning to steal the diamonds.

On what is supposed to be a routine job for Hope--stealing a diamond necklace during a party in the Burj Khalifa Hotel in Dubai--she has a chance meeting with two girls who are Saudi-Arabian royalty, cousins Rheina and Leena, who introduce Hope to the app "Perfection". Perfection is an app/social network that tells its users what to do to make them "perfect", developed by the [[TheSyndicate sinister syndicate]] Prometheus. Unfortunately, Perfection has turned Rheina bulimic and depressive, and she commits [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]] shortly after meeting Hope. Thereupon, Hope now wishes to steal the diamonds not only for the money, but to [[ItsPersonal take revenge]] on the makers of Perfection, who organized the party where she was planning to steal the diamonds.