With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
Magical Girls is a Dark Fantasy novel written by Hannah Conrad and published in 2018.Ava always enjoyed being a magical girl with her friends. But sometimes the ones you trust can hurt you the most.
For the 2014 novel by Jesse Brown see Magical Girls (2014).
This novel provides examples of:
- By the Power of Grayskull!: The Magical Girls transform by shouting a Catchphrase which has a connection to their power sets.
- The Chosen One: Ava, due to being a reincarnated princess.
- Frilly Upgrade: Activating a Transformation Sequence grants a new wardrobe and a power boost.
- In the Name of the Moon: Ava tends to use variations of this in battle
- Magic Wand: Each of the girls has a unique magical artifact which functions like this. Ava has an actual wand.
- The Power of Friendship: Ava gets broken in her belief in this at the beginning of the story.
- Super Mode: Activated by the Transformation Sequence.
- Transformation Sequence: The whole nine yards, with individualized catchphrases, fancy outfits, crazy powerups, and more.
