Line #20 Literature/MorpheusRoad

Context Literature / MorpheusRoad

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1	''Morpheus Road'' is a fantasy series from Creator/DJMacHale, author of ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure''. The three installments are ''The Light'', ''The Black'', and ''The Blood''.
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3	The series focuses on a pair of friends from ''Pendragon'''s Stony Brook, Marshall "Marsh" Seaver and Cooper Foley. Cooper unknowingly scalped some counterfeit Yankees tickets to help his sister, Sydney, pay her hospital bill after she got an infection because of a tattoo she wanted to keep secret. In order to avoid spending the summer in Juvie, Cooper ratted on the guys who gave him the tickets, and had to spend the summer at his parents' lake house. When he disappears without a trace, Marshall and Sydney start getting haunted by Gravedigger, a comic book character Marshall created. This eventually leads them to the lake, where they discover that Cooper was killed in a boating accident. But they soon realize that this is only the beginning...
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5	!!This series contains examples of:
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7	* AncientGrome: Damon and Adeipho were generals in Alexander the Great's army, and the Roman Colosseum features prominently in ''The Blood''.
8	%%* BigBad: Damon
9	* DefrostingIceQueen: Sydney to Marshall.
10	* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Damon agrees to stop Brennus when it becomes apparent he plans to march on, and [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer]] [[TheLifestream Solara]]]].
11	* {{Hell}}: Here known as "The Blood".
12	* LostSuperweapon: The Poleax is apparently one of these.
13	* AMillionIsAStatistic: Damon's philosophy of life (and death) in a nutshell.
14	* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: The ghosts are supposedly forbidden to interfere with the living. Not that this stops Cooper and Damon.
15	* OurGhostsAreDifferent
16	** OurSoulsAreDifferent
17	* POVSequel: ''The Light'' is told from Marshall's POV and ''The Black'' is from [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Cooper's]].
18	* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:Ree is actually Terri Seaver, Marshall's mother. Adeipho's daughter, Zoe, is introduced this way as well.]]
19	* SpinOff: Of ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure''. ''The Blood'' confirms this series takes place in the same universe.
20	** In ''The Light'', one of the boys takes over a job after Mark from ''Pendragon'' leaves it.
21	** And it was already known that ''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' took place in the same universe as the movie ''Film/TowerOfTerror''.
22	* TakeAThirdOption: Cooper does this in regards to Damon's [[DealWithTheDevil offer.]]

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