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1	* CompleteMonster: "[[EvilOldFolks El Patrón]]", born Matteo Alacrán, is a drug lord ruling over the country of Opium. Reducing anyone caught crossing the border illegally--as well as his own staff--into mindless "[[FateWorseThanDeath eejits]]" to serve in his operations, El Patrón's [[BadBoss harsh work environments]] lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Harvesting organs from his own clones to [[ImmortalityImmorality extend his life]], El Patrón allows them to be raised believing they are his beloved children before cruelly killing them. [[ItsAllAboutMe Believing everything to be his]], El Patrón even makes plans to wipe out all life in Opium with his passing to die with him.
2	* FauxSymbolism: Why is Tam Lin named "Literature/TamLin"? It's implied to be an assumed identity, so El Patrón probably came up with it.
3	* MoralEventHorizon:
4	** The Alacrán family crosses it when [[spoiler: they attempt to dispose of Matt after El Patrón's death.]]
5	** If the Keepers hadn't already crossed it by [[spoiler:throwing Matt and Chacho into the bone pit]], they certainly did when they [[spoiler:tried to remove Chacho from life support after being warned that would kill him]].
6	%% * StrangledByTheRedString: Matt and Maria: Maria is the only girl around Matt's age in the entire book.
7	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
8	** Steven Alacrán. He's introduced with a good PetTheDog moment in rushing Matt to have someone help him after he steps on broken glass, and later gets a KickTheDog moment in [[spoiler:turning over Matt to be captured for El Patron to Harvest]] but he doesn't really get anything significant to do in between when his CharacterDevelopment from UsedToBeASweetKid and possible interactions with Matt could have been shown.
9	** El Viejo, the WhiteSheep of the Alcran's gets some interesting development but not once does he have a conversation with Matt.
10	** Flaco of the Lost Boys, who is willing to rebel against the representatives of the local corrupt authorities, but seems to hold out a belief they aren't all bad and so he stays behind and becomes a WhatHappenedToTheMouse character.
11	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Despite being marketed as a book for a pre-teen audience, the book is very dark and touches on several controversial ethics issues.

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