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1	->What good is a toy that will wind down? What if you could give a toy a heart? A real heart. One that beat and beat and didn't stop. What ''couldn't'' you do if you could make a toy like that?
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3	''The Toymaker'' is a ''very'' dark children's novel written by Jeremy de Quidt.
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5	From the moment that the circus boy, Mathias, takes a small roll of paper from the dying conjuror, his fate is sealed. For on it is the key to a terrifying secret, and there are those who would kill him rather than have it told.
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7	Pursued by the sinister Dr. Leiter with his exquisite doll and malevolent dwarf, preyed on by the circus master and his vicious painted wife, Mathias is drawn into a relentless nightmare. A nightmare that will lead him to the Toymaker, and to a knife as cruel as frost.
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10	!!This novel contains examples of:
11	* ActionGirl: Katta tends to leap into action no matter the cost to herself and others, which [[spoiler:ends up getting her captured and made into the Duchess]].
12	* AntagonistTitle: The Toymaker is one of the main villains of the book, and is the titular character.
13	* AntiHero: Katta is a tough girl with no mercy for those that cross her, and is gung-ho about getting into troublesome situations.
14	* BigBadDuumvirate: Dr. Leiter and the Toymaker are the main villains of the story, with Leiter having political schemes while the Toymaker enacts his operations.
15	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Mathias is saved and Leiter's crimes have been exposed, but the Toymaker and Valtar escape and Katta has been converted into clockwork and goes mad]].
16	* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Katta tries to blind a boy who threw a stone at her years ago]].
17	* FreakOut: [[spoiler:Katta goes mad once she's made into the Duchess]].
18	* HeartTrauma: The Toymaker used sparrows' hearts in his experiments. [[spoiler: Then he moved onto ''human'' hearts]].
19	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Katta is treated this way in the finale when [[spoiler:she's forcibly converted into the Duchess]].
20	* ImplacableMan: Valter the [[spoiler:clockwork]] dwarf is unstoppable by conventional means. Justified as [[spoiler:he's not human]].
21	* KarmaHoudini: The Toymaker gets away at the end, and it's implied he and Valter are still out there to perform cruel experiments.
22	* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:This happened to the Duke, who was killed and replaced with a clockwork double]].
23	* PinballProtagonist: Mathias spends much of the book bouncing from character to character and place to place, with little agency of his own.
24	* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:The Duke is made of clockwork; the real one has been dead for years]].
25	* SupportingProtagonist: Mathias spends much of the story being pulled around by other characters and only does one thing of importance in the whole book.

Context Literature / TheToymaker