History Literature / GodsAndMonsters

* DecapitationDemostration: Athena is implied to keep the heads of the gorgons in her temple, and she outright tells Ari that she beheaded her mother's corpse.

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* CrypticConversation: Josephine tells Ari about [[spoiler:Pandora's box]] in a conversation like this. Her invitation to Sebastian to go to Church with her also relayed to him the location of [[spoiler:the Hands of Zeus]].

* IDontWantToDie: [[spoiler:Athena]] begs Ari to save her when she starts turning to stone, all while holding her resurrected baby for the first time in a thousand years.

** [[spoiler:Josephine]] might qualify, though the exact reasons for her actions are never fully revealed, but she did save the Hands from [[IncrediblyLamePun falling into the wrong hands.]]

** Although an AntiVillain, [[spoiler:Josephine]] definitely gets this, especially from [[spoiler:her grandson.]]

* CreepyChild: Violet…
* CrypticConversation: Josephine seems to be very fond of wrapping her words around, though mostly she's relaying subtle threats. However, it's her invitation to Sebastian [[spoiler:shortly before her death]] that becomes important.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Ari has a moment like this when she punches Athena in the Arnaud ball.

* EvilMatriarch: Josephine is viewed as this. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted in that she's just a WellIntentionedExtremist.]]
* FeudingFamilies: The Novem are somewhat implied to have once been this.
* ForcedToWatch: Athena does this to Ari.

* GoodIsNotNice: Oh so very much. Bran spends most of his time fighting, sparing and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking almost using inappropriate words in front of young children.]] Josephine is an outright [[{{Jerkass}} jerkass]] who admits to tricking Eleni and turning Theron over to Athena. Pretty much ''everyone'' on the side of good qualifies. Not even Ari is safe.
* GorgeousGorgon: Ari is apparently this, but is she does turn into a full-blown gorgon…
* HereditaryCurse: The cause of nearly every problem in Ari’s life.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: τέρας hunters are this.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Athena might be a victim of this.
** Ari, as well.

* InTheBlood: Ari has her father’s instincts as a hunter, as proved by her reaction to being threatened.
* KillTheGod: Ari swears to commit deicide at the end of the first book.

* MentorArchetype: Michel, Bran and Theron, towards Ari.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ari, after stabbing and killing a hunter.
** Also when she beheads a monster

** Athena of all people is thought to have reacted like this when she realized [[spoiler:she had just had a gorgon kill her baby]].
* NecessarilyEvil: The Novem have done some… ''questionable'' things.

* OhCrap: Athena, when she realizes Ari is turning her to stone.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires such as the Arnauds and the Baptistes are different from the soulless revenants.

* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: Any hunter that attacks Ari.
** Theron, by Athena.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Eight-year-old Violet is the ''queen'' of this.

* VampireMonarch: [[spoiler:Josephine is the Bloodborn Queen.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Athena]] dies just as [[spoiler:her son]] begins to live again.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Josephine]] is beheaded and [[DecapitationPresentation laid in the town square with her head lying just a few inches away from her neck, and even those who hated her can't help but be stunned at her brutal death. Exactly who killed her is never revealed.

** [[spoiler:A brutal example would be Josephine. Her death is never explained, but her head is placed just a few inches away from her body, in what Ari theorizes was someone's attempt to send the Novem a message.]]

* [[spoiler:IDontWantToDie: Athena begs Ari to save her when she starts turning to stone, all while holding her resurrected baby for the first time in a thousand years.]]

** [[spoiler:She may also have some of his immortality, as she recuperated from being stabbed them mauled, in four days with the help of a healed.]]

** [[spoiler:The full extent of Josephine's schemes is alluded to when she manages to hide the Hands from virtually ''everyone'', even from the ''gods''. Sure, [[OffWithHisHead it didn't end particularly well for her]], but the Hands were only found because she left a cryptic message to Sebastian when she invited him to Church.]]

* [[spoiler:[[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: Josephine, of all people, is implied to have fallen victim to this, and though the details of her death, even who killed her or exactly why, are never revealed, she was killed just as everyone planned to ask her about the Hands.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:All Athena wanted was to have her baby resurrected]].
** [[spoiler:Josephine might qualify, though the exact reasons for her actions are never fully revealed, but she did save the Hands from [[IncrediblyLamePun falling into the wrong hands.]]]]

* ManipulativeBastard: Athena is the greatest, followed closely by Josephine, who’s ''supposed to be a good guy''.'

* NecessarilyEvil: The Novem have done some… ‘‘questionable’’ things.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Ari is aiming to ‘‘kill a goddess’’.

** They ‘‘can’’ be brought back, as Ari did.

-->'''Josephine:''' Pandora was the same way, you know? A deceptive package. The Greek writers called her ‘‘Kalon Kakon’’, a beautiful evil.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Eight-year-old Violet is the ‘‘queen’’ of this.

* SuicideIsPainless: Most descendants of Medusa chose to die before becoming gorgons.

* BigGood: If the Novem can ‘‘truly’’ be viewed as good, but they do have the position.
* TheChessmaster: According to Ari, all of the Novem ‘play the game’ to an extent.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Ari has a moment like this when she punches Athena in the Arnaud ball.

* LoveYourEnemy: Eleni, a gorgon, fell in love with Theron, a τέρας hunter.
* ManipulativeBastard: Athena is the greatest, followed closely by Josephine, who’s ‘‘supposed to be a good guy’’.

''Gods and Monsters'', by Kelly Keaton, is a young adult fantasy series that began in 2011. It has three books, ‘‘Darkness Becomes Her’’, ‘‘A Beautiful Evil’’, and "The Wicked Within".