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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The first book takes place during the week leading up to New Years, the second on Halloween. Both times there are story-related reasons why (A monster attack at the New Years Celebration at Times Square would be impossible to cover up, Halloween being the ideal time for certain rituals). The third book takes place during the rather unremarkable and holiday-free first week of November, because it starts just after the second book ended. The fourth returns to the pattern, with the climax taking place on the summer solstice. The calendar date of the fifth novel is almost totally unknown, beyond the fact that it takes place almost exactly 100 years since the signing of a treaty (which expires after 100 years, the book is about events taking place in the hotel where a new treaty is being negotiated). The seventh book's climax takes place on Christmas Eve.

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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: Every book except the third takes place on or about a significant calendar event. The first book takes place during the week leading up to New Years, the second on Halloween. Both times there are story-related reasons why (A monster attack at the New Years Celebration at Times Square would be impossible to cover up, Halloween being the ideal time for certain rituals).Halloween. The third book takes place during the rather unremarkable and holiday-free first week of November, because it starts just after the second book ended. The fourth returns to the pattern, with the climax taking place on the summer solstice. The calendar date of the fifth novel is almost totally unknown, beyond the fact that it takes place almost exactly 100 years since the signing of a treaty (which expires after 100 years, the book is about events taking place in the hotel where a new treaty is being negotiated). The sixth takes place during a supermoon (and coincidentally Mac's birthday). The seventh book's climax takes place on Christmas Eve. Out of all those, only the first and fifth are not because of the date being of ritual significance (a monster attack on the New Year's Celebration in Times Square - watched by millions on live TV - would be impossible to cover up, the centennial anniversary of a major diplomatic event having a lot of [=VIPs=] in one place to target).



* OfficeRomance: Though Mac is clearly attracted to her partner Ian, they aren't in one, because they both understand how difficult it would make working together if things fell apart. At the end of the second book Ian has started dating a dryad in SPI's PR (Read: invents semi-plausible mundane explanations for supernatural incidents, like a statue coming to life actually being animatronic) department, with Mac's knowledge and approval. Said relationship is still going as of the end of book five.

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* OfficeRomance: Though Mac is clearly attracted to her partner Ian, they aren't in one, because they both understand how difficult it would make working together if things fell apart. At the end of the second book Ian has started dating a dryad in SPI's PR (Read: invents semi-plausible mundane explanations for supernatural incidents, like a statue coming to life actually being animatronic) department, with Mac's knowledge and approval. Said relationship is still going as of the end of book five.seven.



* SharedUniverse: The SPI novels and the Raine Benares novels take place on different dimensions, but there is communication and travel between them. The SPI novels have multiple references to events in the Raine novels. Raine's cousin Mago is a minor character in the fifth book.
* ShoutOut: Kitty's bakery is on Bleecker Street in the West Village, which would put New York's premier portal witch just down the street from the Sanctum Santorum of Doctor Steven Strage.

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* SharedUniverse: The SPI novels and the Raine Benares novels take place on different dimensions, but there is communication and travel between them. The SPI novels have multiple references to events in the Raine novels. Raine's cousin Mago is a minor character in the fifth book.
book, and her ex-boyfriend Tam is a major character in book six.
* ShoutOut: Kitty's bakery is on Bleecker Street in the West Village, which would put New York's premier portal witch just down the street from the Sanctum Santorum of Doctor Steven Strage.Stephen Strange.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The first book takes place during the week leading up to New Years, the second on Halloween. Both times there are story-related reasons why (A monster attack at the New Years Celebration at Times Square would be impossible to cover up, Halloween being the ideal time for certain rituals). The third book takes place during the rather unremarkable and holiday-free first week of November, because it starts just after the second book ended. The fourth returns to the pattern, with the climax taking place on the summer solstice. The calendar date of the fifth novel is almost totally unknown, beyond the fact that it takes place almost exactly 100 years since the signing of a treaty (which expires after 100 years, the book is about events taking place in the hotel where a new treaty is being negotiated).

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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The first book takes place during the week leading up to New Years, the second on Halloween. Both times there are story-related reasons why (A monster attack at the New Years Celebration at Times Square would be impossible to cover up, Halloween being the ideal time for certain rituals). The third book takes place during the rather unremarkable and holiday-free first week of November, because it starts just after the second book ended. The fourth returns to the pattern, with the climax taking place on the summer solstice. The calendar date of the fifth novel is almost totally unknown, beyond the fact that it takes place almost exactly 100 years since the signing of a treaty (which expires after 100 years, the book is about events taking place in the hotel where a new treaty is being negotiated). The seventh book's climax takes place on Christmas Eve.
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* AndIMustScream: While all gorgons can impose TakenForGranite by gaze or touch, ''young'' gorgons aren't good at doing it quickly. Rather, their victims turn to stone ''from the outside in'' over the course of hours, unable to move or speak, only expiring when the effect penetrates to their vital organs.
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* ''The Solstice Countdown''
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: The elven embassy is forced to accept that an "accidental discharge" of a cannon that blew a hole in their north wall was an accident because of the implausibility of somebody managing to make the shot (from a moving, rocking ship, though a narrow alley, to a target a quarter mile away) on purpose.

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