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* SternParentDotingParent: This starts off being the situation for Yasmin. Her stepfather, Gary, is unsympathetic and bad-tempered, while her mother, Jen, is permissive and doesn't set consistent boundaries (for example, insisting Yasmin has to lose weight, and then buying her chocolate to cheer her up). Both sides are portrayed as having points: Gary is a {{Jerkass}}, but he's right that Jen is inconsistent and passive as a result of grief over the death of Yasmin's father.
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* FictionalFanRealCelebrity: Yasmin is a big fan of ''Series/StarTrek'', and goes so far as to consider Spock and Kirk's friendship inspiration for her own life and badly-thwarted methods of making friends.
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* FictionalFanRealCelebrity: Yasmin is a big fan of ''Series/StarTrek'', ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', and goes so far as to consider Spock and Kirk's friendship inspiration for her own life and badly-thwarted methods of making friends.
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* NeverARunaway: Invoked by Yasmin.
** When she sees Sam stalking Alice, she looks for other people he might've kidnapped and comes across Amelia Bell on a missing persons website. She looks uncannily like Alice, and Yasmin immediately jumps to the conclusion that Sam might have killed her, even though she's described as a runaway.
** She also briefly hopes that Alice might have run away, but quickly accepts differently in the face of the enormous amount of evidence otherwise (namely, that her kidnapping was witnessed by other people, and that she dropped her phone during the struggle).
** When she sees Sam stalking Alice, she looks for other people he might've kidnapped and comes across Amelia Bell on a missing persons website. She looks uncannily like Alice, and Yasmin immediately jumps to the conclusion that Sam might have killed her, even though she's described as a runaway.
** She also briefly hopes that Alice might have run away, but quickly accepts differently in the face of the enormous amount of evidence otherwise (namely, that her kidnapping was witnessed by other people, and that she dropped her phone during the struggle).
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Yasmin seems depressed and obsessive after the death of her father. She also compulsively overeats and seems detached from reality, as well as literal and unable to pick up on social cues.
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* FictionalFanRealCelebrity: Yasmin is a big fan of ''Series/StarTrek'', and goes so far as to consider Spock and Kirk's friendship inspiration for her own life and badly-thwarted methods of making friends.
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* MixedAncestry: Yasmin is half-Turkish, half-English, which gives her a lot of angst.
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* NotTheFirstVictim: Implied in the search Yasmin does for "missing people". She finds Amelia Bell missing from Nottingham and is shocked by how much Amelia looks like Alice, and Sam says he lived further north. It's never answered for sure if Sam killed Amelia, but it's implied that he may have done.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Kavanagh referred to the book as one to ''Literature/TheCollector''.
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Yasmin, a fifteen-year-old girl still struggling with the dearth of her father years before, is overweight and obsessed with a girl in her class, Alice Taylor. When she spots a man ogling Alice, she believes that he is a paedophile who plans to harm her. Yasmin vows to ingratiate herself in his life in order to make sure he doesn't hurt her. When Alice unexpectedly goes missing, however, Yasmin's loyalties are tested.
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Yasmin, a fifteen-year-old girl still struggling with the dearth death of her father years before, is overweight and obsessed with a girl in her class, Alice Taylor. When she spots a man ogling Alice, she believes that he is a paedophile who plans to harm her. Yasmin vows to ingratiate herself in his life in order to make sure he doesn't hurt her. When Alice unexpectedly goes missing, however, Yasmin's loyalties are tested.
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* WickedStepfather: Gary, although [[UnreliableNarrator Yasmin often implies he's not quite as bad as she makes him out to be]], but they clearly clash on every level.
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* WickedStepfather: Gary, although [[UnreliableNarrator Yasmin often implies he's not quite as bad as she makes him out to be]], but they clearly clash on every level.level.
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* ICanExplain: Yasmin does a variant of this when Alice's friends confront her for stalking Alice. See PoorCommunicationKills.
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* ICanExplain: Yasmin does a variant of this when Alice's friends confront her for about stalking Alice. See PoorCommunicationKills.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Yasmin's StartOfDarkness seems to have begun when she didn't properly deal with her father's death, which resulted in her total isolation from all her friends.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Yasmin's StartOfDarkness seems to have begun when she didn't properly deal with her father's death, which resulted in her total isolation from all her friends.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Katie is an AlphaBitch (though the extent to which this is true is [[UnreliableNarrator possibly exaggerated]]), and becomes gradually hysterical, concluding the novel a sobbing mess, after Alice's disappearance.
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* LonersAreFreaks: It's the case for both Yasmin and Sam, the man she sees watching Alice. [[spoiler:And fully justified in both cases, as Yasmin is a stalker and Sam is a ''murderer''.]]
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* LonersAreFreaks: It's the case for both Yasmin and Sam, the man she sees watching Alice. [[spoiler:And fully justified in both cases, as Yasmin [[spoiler:Yasmin is a stalker and Sam is a ''murderer''.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The dream Yasmin has after Alice goes missing. A product of her obsession, or [[spoiler:a hint that Alice really is buried in the forest, like her dream suggests?]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The dream Yasmin has after Alice goes missing. A product of her obsession, or [[spoiler:a hint that Alice really is buried in the forest, like her dream suggests?]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: MoralityPet: The dream dog Bea for both Sam and Yasmin, but it doesn't qualify as PetTheDog because it leads Yasmin has after Alice goes missing. A product of her obsession, or [[spoiler:a hint that Alice really is buried in [[spoiler:right into the forest, like her dream suggests?]] murderous Sam's orbit]].
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Played with. Jennifer and her husband, Yasmin's father, don't seem to have especially struggled with this, but Yasmin experiences serious angst over her biracial identity.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Played with. Jennifer and her husband, Yasmin's father, don't seem to have especially struggled with this, but MixedAncestry: Yasmin experiences serious angst over is half-Turkish, half-English, which gives her biracial identity.a lot of angst.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** Alice's hairband. [[spoiler:Yasmin picks it up, it's mentioned offhandedly, then she suddenly remembers it when the police tell her that they found Alice's hair in Gary's van]].
** Alice's sketchbook. Yasmin admires it in the novel, then it comes back later when she [[spoiler:finds it on a heap of burning rubbish at Sam's house, confirming that he killed her]].
** Alice's hairband. [[spoiler:Yasmin picks it up, it's mentioned offhandedly, then she suddenly remembers it when the police tell her that they found Alice's hair in Gary's van]].
** Alice's sketchbook. Yasmin admires it in the novel, then it comes back later when she [[spoiler:finds it on a heap of burning rubbish at Sam's house, confirming that he killed her]].
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* ICanExplain: Yasmin does a variant of this when Alice's friends confront her for stalking. See PoorCommunicationKills.
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* HasAType: Sam seems to like young blonde women, [[spoiler:if the other disappeared teenage girl in Nottingham Yasmin hears about is any indication]].
* ICanExplain: Yasmin does a variant of this when Alice's friends confront her forstalking.stalking Alice. See PoorCommunicationKills.
* ICanExplain: Yasmin does a variant of this when Alice's friends confront her for
* MacGuffin: [[spoiler:Alice's hairband, which results in Gary's arrest and drives he and Yasmin's mother, Jennifer, away from her, despite being genuinely an innocent accident on Yasmin's part]].
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Played with. Jennifer and her husband, Yasmin's father, don't seem to have especially struggled with this, but Yasmin experiences serious angst over her biracial identity.
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Played with. Jennifer and her husband, Yasmin's father, don't seem to have especially struggled with this, but Yasmin experiences serious angst over her biracial identity.
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* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: A very relative example. [[spoiler:Alice is murdered and her friends and family end up devastated. Yasmin's family is also destroyed by the suggestion that Gary is the murderer, which might be a cloud of suspicion that never lifts.]] But Yasmin and Sam [[spoiler:get away with the murder of Alice, and are both free to kill again, and ''have each other''.]]
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* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: A very relative example. [[spoiler:Alice is abducted and presumably raped and murdered and her friends and family end up devastated. Yasmin's family is also destroyed by the suggestion that Gary is the murderer, which might be a cloud of suspicion that never lifts.]] But Yasmin and Sam [[spoiler:get away with the murder of Alice, and are both free to kill again, and ''have each other''.]]
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* DeadParentsAreTheBest: Yasmin tells her mother YouShouldHaveDiedInstead, and it seems to be motivated by the fact that she was only ever happy when her father was still alive.
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* DeadParentsAreTheBest: DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Yasmin tells her mother YouShouldHaveDiedInstead, and it seems to be motivated by the fact that she was only ever happy when her father was still alive.
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* DeadParentsAreTheBest: Yasmin tells her mother YouShouldHaveDiedInstead, and it seems to be motivated by the fact that she was only ever happy when her father was still alive.
* StalkerWithACrush: Yasmin towards Alice, and Yasmin thinks Sam is also this. [[spoiler:And she's right.]]
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* UnreliableNarrator: Yasmin is a dangerous fantasist.fantasist.
* WickedStepfather: Gary, although [[UnreliableNarrator Yasmin often implies he's not quite as bad as she makes him out to be]], but they clearly clash on every level.
* WickedStepfather: Gary, although [[UnreliableNarrator Yasmin often implies he's not quite as bad as she makes him out to be]], but they clearly clash on every level.
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* DepravedBisexual: Yasmin appears to be a PsychoLesbian and is actually called that by bullies, but her attraction to Sam suggests that her attraction towards Alice is just part of her possibly being bisexual and her desperation to have anyone who likes her.
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* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: A very relative example. [[spoiler:Alice is murdered and her friends and family end up devastated. Yasmin's family is also destroyed by the suggestion that Gary is the murderer, which might be a cloud of suspicion that never lifts.]] But Yasmin and Sam [[spoiler:get away with the murder of Alice, and are both free to kill again, and ''have each other''.]]
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A 2015 novel by Tasha Kavanagh.
Yasmin, a fifteen-year-old girl still struggling with the dearth of her father years before, is overweight and obsessed with a girl in her class, Alice Taylor. When she spots a man ogling Alice, she believes that he is a paedophile who plans to harm her. Yasmin vows to ingratiate herself in his life in order to make sure he doesn't hurt her. When Alice unexpectedly goes missing, however, Yasmin's loyalties are tested.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Yasmin seems depressed and obsessive after the death of her father. She also compulsively overeats and seems detached from reality, as well as literal and unable to pick up on social cues.
* EsotericHappyEnding: Acknowledged as such. [[spoiler:Alice is dead, having been horribly murdered, Sam got away with it, and he seems about to groom Yasmin into finding him a new victim -- but Yasmin is happy that she finally has a friend.]]
* ICanExplain: Yasmin does a variant of this when Alice's friends confront her for stalking. See PoorCommunicationKills.
* LonersAreFreaks: It's the case for both Yasmin and Sam, the man she sees watching Alice. [[spoiler:And fully justified in both cases, as Yasmin is a stalker and Sam is a ''murderer''.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The dream Yasmin has after Alice goes missing. A product of her obsession, or [[spoiler:a hint that Alice really is buried in the forest, like her dream suggests?]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: If only Katie had given Yasmin a chance to explain what she meant by the "man following Alice", Alice may not have been [[spoiler:kidnapped and murdered - if that's indeed what happened]] and Yasmin's relationship with her family would not have been [[spoiler:ruined by Katie's wrongful assumption that the man Yasmin was referring to was her stepfather.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Alice's friends are real bullies, but you also can't blame them for disliking Yasmin, who is an unrepentant stalker.
* UnreliableNarrator: Yasmin is a dangerous fantasist.
Yasmin, a fifteen-year-old girl still struggling with the dearth of her father years before, is overweight and obsessed with a girl in her class, Alice Taylor. When she spots a man ogling Alice, she believes that he is a paedophile who plans to harm her. Yasmin vows to ingratiate herself in his life in order to make sure he doesn't hurt her. When Alice unexpectedly goes missing, however, Yasmin's loyalties are tested.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Yasmin seems depressed and obsessive after the death of her father. She also compulsively overeats and seems detached from reality, as well as literal and unable to pick up on social cues.
* EsotericHappyEnding: Acknowledged as such. [[spoiler:Alice is dead, having been horribly murdered, Sam got away with it, and he seems about to groom Yasmin into finding him a new victim -- but Yasmin is happy that she finally has a friend.]]
* ICanExplain: Yasmin does a variant of this when Alice's friends confront her for stalking. See PoorCommunicationKills.
* LonersAreFreaks: It's the case for both Yasmin and Sam, the man she sees watching Alice. [[spoiler:And fully justified in both cases, as Yasmin is a stalker and Sam is a ''murderer''.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The dream Yasmin has after Alice goes missing. A product of her obsession, or [[spoiler:a hint that Alice really is buried in the forest, like her dream suggests?]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: If only Katie had given Yasmin a chance to explain what she meant by the "man following Alice", Alice may not have been [[spoiler:kidnapped and murdered - if that's indeed what happened]] and Yasmin's relationship with her family would not have been [[spoiler:ruined by Katie's wrongful assumption that the man Yasmin was referring to was her stepfather.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Alice's friends are real bullies, but you also can't blame them for disliking Yasmin, who is an unrepentant stalker.
* UnreliableNarrator: Yasmin is a dangerous fantasist.
