| 1 | * EnsembleDarkHorse: MrFixit Mr. Lightfoot, Owen Cathcoate/The Candystick Kid (an alleged retired gunslinger who is quite formidable regardless of whether his stories are true), unexpectedly gifted pitcher Nemo, hell-raising escaped pet monkey Lucifer, and GreaserDelinquents ghost Little Stevie are all secondary characters with enormous presences in the fanbase. |
| 2 | * NightmareFuel: ''Literature/BoysLife'' is a SliceOfLife novel about a year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the life of a boy]]. It switches between sweet and heartwrenching, but overall it's a peaceful story (well, apart from the horrific murder that sets off the plot but nevermind that for now) and for the most part free of NightmareFuel- except for "Case #3432". You will never regard UnexplainedRecovery and DisneyDeath the same way ever again. |
| 3 | * TearJerker: You won't get through this book without shedding at least a few tears over events like a dog and a young boy dying, a sympathetic newcomer failing to change his unhappy homelife, or a prostitute mourning her lost best chance at a better life... |
| 4 | * TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: |
| 5 | ** Nemo, the young pitching prodigy with a MyBelovedSmother, only appears in about three scenes, when many fans wish he'd become a core member of Cory's group of friends. |
| 6 | ** Jack Marchette, the fire chief who once worked alongside Tom until Tom quit firefighting due to a traumatic event, leads the efforts to stop a major flood, and later is one of the only people to volunteer to help the sheriff during a ShowdownAtHighNoon, feels like a FlatCharacter despite his noticeable involvement in interesting things and the quirkiness of his neighbors. |
| 7 | * ValuesResonance: The Confederacy is casually glorified in the 1960s scenes in a way that 1991 Cory suspects had some tie-ins to casual racism, a point of view which became more prevalent in the 2010s and 20s. |
| 8 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Who is finally able to put an end to the [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} hellish]] spider monkey Lucifer? Why, a man named Gabriel, of course. |
| 9 | * TheWoobie: Tom Mackenson becomes one over the course of the story, being horribly scarred by the murder and experiencing horrifying nightmares about the victim sinking and ''calling him''. To add insult to injury, Tom learns one of his oldest friends [[spoiler:is a dangerous racist]] and [[spoiler: loses his job as a milkman]] due to the construction of a supermarket and is [[spoiler:forced to become a dishwasher]]. |
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