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* FamousAncestor: A minor character in the first book is descended from the Norse hero Sigurd. [[spoiler:Ian]] turns out to be descended from the Celtic hero Lugh.
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* FamousAncestor: A minor character in the first book is descended from the Norse hero Sigurd. [[spoiler:Ian]] turns out to be descended from the Celtic hero Lugh. [[spoiler:Mac]]'s father is Lord of the Wild Hunt. SPI apparently has a support group for the descendants of mythological figures.
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* MadLibThrillerTitle: Just look at the list above.
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* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Politics in the goblin court are literally cutthroat. The elven court and the Council of Twelve are less violent, but equally corrupt.
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* WhenThePlanetsAlign: The villains' {{Magitek}} device in ''Phoenix'' is expected to be more potent because they're planning to activate it during a [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot blood]] [[WeirdMoon supermoon]]. A mild example, as their device will work fine on ''any'' full or new moon, it's just ''stronger'' when the moon's status is extreme.
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* WhenThePlanetsAlign: The villains' {{Magitek}} device in ''Phoenix'' is expected to be more potent because they're planning to activate it during a [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot blood]] [[WeirdMoon supermoon]]. A mild example, as their device will work fine on would function during ''any'' full or new moon, it's just ''stronger'' when if the moon's astronomical status is extreme.
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* SupremeChef: Kitty Poertner, New York's top portal witch, is a first-rate baker. She apparently gets called on to provide SPI with scones more often than she is called on for her expertise with portals.
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* SupremeChef: Kitty Poertner, New York's top portal witch, is a first-rate baker. She apparently gets called on to provide SPI with scones more often than she is called on for her expertise with portals.portals.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: The villains' {{Magitek}} device in ''Phoenix'' is expected to be more potent because they're planning to activate it during a [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot blood]] [[WeirdMoon supermoon]]. A mild example, as their device will work fine on ''any'' full or new moon, it's just ''stronger'' when the moon's status is extreme.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: The villains' {{Magitek}} device in ''Phoenix'' is expected to be more potent because they're planning to activate it during a [[TotalEclipseOfThePlot blood]] [[WeirdMoon supermoon]]. A mild example, as their device will work fine on ''any'' full or new moon, it's just ''stronger'' when the moon's status is extreme.
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* FemaleGaze: Mac's description of the Mythos exhibit is definitely skewed towards the MrFanservice aspects of the artwork. That, and her equally-feminine flinching from a depiction of [[StalkerWithACrush Hades abducting Persephone]].
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* SouthernBelle: Mac's North Carolina upbringing colors her manners, her taste in food, and her feisty response to slick talkers or threats to her "family" at SPI.
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* SuperheroTrophyShelf: Every SPI agent has a collection of 'desk bling', little knickknacks given to them by their coworkers that reference notably impressive or embarrassing things they have done.
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* NoodleIncident: Mention is occasionally made of cases that happen between books. One notable one was a Siren infestation during Fleet Week, which SPI was only able to cover up because all the witnesses were drunk.
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* NoodleIncident: Mention is occasionally made of cases that happen between books. One notable one was a Siren infestation during Fleet Week, which SPI was only able to cover up because all the witnesses were drunk. Another is known to have involved Ian, the Gates of Hell, and Hoboken, [=NJ=].
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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.
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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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* OfficeRomance: Though Mac is clearly attracted to her partner Ian, they aren't in one, possibly 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.
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* OfficeRomance: Though Mac is clearly attracted to her partner Ian, they aren't in one, possibly 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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* 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.
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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.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Mychael (virtuous paladin) and Tamnais (roguish duke) to Raine. [[spoiler: Mychael wins.]]
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: After the LoveTriangle is finally resolved [[spoiler: in Mychael's favor]], the remaining suitor gets together with [[spoiler: his head of intelligence.]]
* ClingyMacGuffin: Theartifactartifact, a magic rock called the Saghred. (Unfortunate, in that not only is the rock extremely powerful and dangerous, it also contains the soul of a similarly powerful and dangerous goblin mage, who is also a huge jerk.)
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: After the LoveTriangle is finally resolved [[spoiler: in Mychael's favor]], the remaining suitor gets together with [[spoiler: his head of intelligence.]]
* ClingyMacGuffin: The
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* PopCulturedBadass: More like Pop Cultured Non-Combatant ''surrounded'' by Badasses, in Mac's case.
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* ''Wedding Bells, Magic Spells''
* ''Treasure & Treason''
* ''Treasure & Treason''
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: Politics in the goblin court are literally cutthroat. The elven court and the Council of Twelve are less violent, but equally corrupt.
* GargleBlaster: Raine bonds with her mother-in-law to be over a couple of bottles of very rare, expensive and powerful rum they find after they end up stuck in the archmage's wine cellar after a battle. When they get extracted, the archmage expresses astonishment that they are still ''alive'' after drinking both bottles.
* TheHighwayman: [[spoiler:Mychael's mother]] used to be one.
* ''The Ghoul Vendetta''
* DealWithTheDevil: Complete with a notarized contract. [[spoiler:And then it turns out the demon was selling goods that weren't his to sell, and his boss wasn't happy when he found out about it.]]
* DonutMessWithACop: At one point Kitty bribes the NYPD to leave a crime scene for a while so SPI can examine it for evidence of the supernatural with a large bag of baked goods.
* DonutMessWithACop: At one point Kitty bribes the NYPD to leave a crime scene for a while so SPI can examine it for evidence of the supernatural with a large bag of baked goods.
* FamousAncestor: A minor character in the first book is descended from the Norse hero Sigurd. [[spoiler:Ian]] turns out to be descended from the Celtic hero Lugh.
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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.
* {{Masquerade}}: Part of SPI's mission is to keep the existence of the supernatural hidden from the general public.
* {{Masquerade}}: Part of SPI's mission is to keep the existence of the supernatural hidden from the general public.
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* SingleLineOfDescent: One of the things that has to be done to break the curse that banished the Fomor to the oceans was exterminate the line of Lugh, the hero who defeated the Fomor King and banished them thousands of years ago. Despite all the millennia, it appears that there is only one living descendant (or at least, only one that matters): [[spoiler:Ian]].
* SuperheroTrophyShelf: Every SPI agent has a collection of 'desk bling', little knickknacks given to them by their coworkers that reference notably impressive or embarrassing things they havedone.done.
* SupremeChef: Kitty Poertner, New York's top portal witch, is a first-rate baker. She apparently gets called on to provide SPI with scones more often than she is called on for her expertise with portals.
* SingleLineOfDescent: One of the things that has to be done to break the curse that banished the Fomor to the oceans was exterminate the line of Lugh, the hero who defeated the Fomor King and banished them thousands of years ago. Despite all the millennia, it appears that there is only one living descendant (or at least, only one that matters): [[spoiler:Ian]].
* SuperheroTrophyShelf: Every SPI agent has a collection of 'desk bling', little knickknacks given to them by their coworkers that reference notably impressive or embarrassing things they have
* SupremeChef: Kitty Poertner, New York's top portal witch, is a first-rate baker. She apparently gets called on to provide SPI with scones more often than she is called on for her expertise with portals.
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'''Lisa Shearin''' is an American author of the Raine Benares series, about a sorceress and seeker of things lost and people missing, who gets mixed up with an ArtifactOfDoom. She is also the author of the SPI Files series, an urban fantasy series about Mackenna Fraser, a seer employed to locate paranormal creatures for an organization dedicated to protecting humans from the supernatural and upholding TheMasquerade.
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* ''The Brimstone Deception''
* FantasticDrug: Brimstone allows people to see through illusions. This causes humans who take it to freak out when they realize that the non-humans hidden under glamours all around them are non-humans hidden under glamours.
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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.
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* ''Wild Cards'' (eBook novella)
* ''The Dragon Conspiracy''
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* GroinAttack: Fraser's first piece of desk bling - an anatomically correct leprechaun doll with his pants around his ankles - refers to an incident where she cornered a group of naked drunken leprechauns in a [=McDonald's=] and tased their leader in the Happy Meal.
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* GroinAttack: Fraser's first piece of desk bling - an anatomically correct leprechaun doll with his pants around his ankles - refers to an incident where she cornered a group of naked drunken leprechauns in a [=McDonald's=] and tased tasered their leader in the Happy Meal.Meal.
* 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).
* MineralMacguffin: The second book centers around the theft of the Dragon's Eggs, seven magically powerful diamonds that were once owned by the Romanovs.
* OfficeRomance: Though Mac is clearly attracted to her partner Ian, they aren't in one, possibly 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.
* 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).
* MineralMacguffin: The second book centers around the theft of the Dragon's Eggs, seven magically powerful diamonds that were once owned by the Romanovs.
* OfficeRomance: Though Mac is clearly attracted to her partner Ian, they aren't in one, possibly 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.
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'''Lisa Shearin''' is an American author of the Raine Benares series, about a sorceress and seeker of things lost and people missing, who gets mixed up with an ArtifactOfDoom.ArtifactOfDoom. She is also the author of the SPI Files series, an urban fantasy series about Mackenna Fraser, a seer employed to locate paranormal creatures for an organization dedicated to protecting humans from the supernatural and upholding TheMasquerade.
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* DragonLady: Vivienne Sagadraco is referred to as this. Mainly because she really ''is'' a dragon.
* ExplosiveBreeder: Grendels only reproduce once every fifty years or so, but when they do, they lay three batches of 20-30 eggs each. This is a major reason as to why they haven't been hunted into extinction by SPI Scandinavia (Despite their best efforts).
* GroinAttack: Fraser's first piece of desk bling - an anatomically correct leprechaun doll with his pants around his ankles - refers to an incident where she cornered a group of naked drunken leprechauns in a [=McDonald's=] and tased their leader in the Happy Meal.
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* DiplomaticImpunity: Just about everyone with diplomatic status. Nobody ever points out that the Guardians have more than enough evidence to declare them PersonaNonGrata and throw them out of the city for this.
* DrinkingGame: Students and off-duty guards invented one where they drink whenever the archmage snarks during a speech. Everyone involved generally gets hammered.
* DrinkingGame: Students and off-duty guards invented one where they drink whenever the archmage snarks during a speech. Everyone involved generally gets hammered.
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* VirginPower: Needed to find the Scythe of Nen. Good luck finding a virgin on a college campus on short notice.
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* ''Magic Lost, Trouble Found''
* ''Armed & Magical''
* ''The Trouble With Demons''
* ''Bewitched and Betrayed''
* ''Con & Conjure''
* ''All Spell Breaks Loose''
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* ''Magic Lost, Trouble Found''
* ''Armed & Magical''
* ''The Trouble With Demons''
* ''Bewitched and Betrayed''
* ''Con & Conjure''
* ''All Spell Breaks Loose''
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!!Tropes found in her work include
* ClingyMacGuffin: The artifact
* IJustWantToBeNormal: And escape this artifact!
* MakeUpIsEvil: One villainess is marked out by her excessive make-up.
* OldRetainer: Tam's.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Very civilized, for one.
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* ClingyMacGuffin: The artifact
* IJustWantToBeNormal: And escape this artifact!
* MakeUpIsEvil: One villainess is marked out by her excessive make-up.
* OldRetainer: Tam's.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Very civilized, for one.
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