History Literature / Alterworld

* AdultFear: Starts becoming apparent in about the second half of More Than Human and gets aggressively more obvious as it goes on.

* {{GIFT}}: Adam is an inversion; he's really quite personable on the internet, but in real life [[{{Jerkass}} is a different story]].

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More Than Human tells of a fifteen-year-old EmoTeen called Georgia Waratjiry who happens to be a weredingo. While browsing her older sister's internet history, she stumbles across a forum for paranormal folks such as herself. Intrigued, she signs up and unwittingly sets the ball rolling for more involvement with the supernatural community (no, not [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Supernatural that]] [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fandom one]]) than she's ever had in her entire life.

%%* OurElvesAreBetter

* BloodFromTheMouth: [[spoiler:The fairy Tiff kills near the end of the book]].
* CuteMonsterGirl:
** Depending on your outlook, Georgia and Nina.
** Depending on your outlook, Dillon.

* DownerEnding: The [[spoiler:epilogue.]]
* TheFairFolk
* FakeMemories: Heavily implied to have happened to [[spoiler:Tiffany]] at the end.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: Catherine Pierce and her sons, Lachlan and Lucas.
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:Tiff]] about halfway through More Than Human.
* {{GIFT}}: Adam is an interesting inversion; he's really quite personable on the internet, but real life [[{{Jerkass}} is a different story]].
* {{Goth}}: From the first line of chapter one: “Georgia's going through a 'goth' phase.”
* HeroicBSOD: Tiff after she [[spoiler:plants a sword in Tepid's stomach]].
* InMediasRes: Chapter Zero. 'But that's not where the story starts.'
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Adam Vasquez. Though he sees himself as a good guy.
** Deciduan Boroniaden.

* MonstrousHumanoid:
** Dillon's gargoyle form.
** Aren't we going to talk about the [[spoiler:changelings]]?
* MonsterMash
* {{Muggle}}

* OneWordTitle

* OurElvesAreBetter
* OurFairiesAreDifferent
* OurGargoylesRock: Dillon would absolutely tell you so herself.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: In-universe example: Dong-hae seems to be trying to single-handedly invoke this.
* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent

* {{Portmantitle}}
* PowerIncontinence: Antonio's telepathy.
* PsychicRadar: Antonio, again.

* ShoutOut "Legolassie".

* WhamLine:
** Macwhirter seems to be a fan of these.
** [[spoiler:The sword slammed into his side.]]
** "Mum read my mind and [[spoiler:she called GPIA half an hour ago. Someone's coming to pick Rain up right now]]."
* WingedHumanoid: Nina and Adam. And all of the fairies.
* WouldHurtAChild: The fairies of Boroniaden, apparently.

* OneOfUs: In-universe example: Dillon.

An in-progress YoungAdult UrbanFantasy series by new novelist [[http://rachelmacwhirter.com/ Rachel Macwhirter]]. Currently only the first book, More Than Human, is released.

More Than Human tells of a fifteen year old EmoTeen called Georgia Waratjiry who happens to be a weredingo. While browsing her older sister's internet history, she stumbles across a forum for paranormal folks such as herself. Intrigued, she signs up and unwittingly sets the ball rolling for more involvement with the supernatural community (no, not [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Supernatural that]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Fandom one]]) than she's ever had in her entire life.

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Played with – though no one is outright posessed, a recurring theme throughout the first book is characters dealing with [[spoiler:magical mental blocks imposed on them, grinding any actions the blocker doesn't want to a halt]] and finding ways around them.

* TheMenInBlack: GPIA and SISA. Nina also mentions an organisation called PIPER, but she talks of it so dismissively that it's probably safe to assume it's ineffective.

[[spoiler:BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind]]: Played with – though no one is outright posessed, a recurring theme throughout the first book is characters dealing with [[spoiler:magical mental blocks imposed on them, grinding any actions the blocker doesn't want to a halt]] and finding ways around them.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Depending on your outlook, Georgia and Nina.

* DescriptionInTheMirror]]: An unusual example as it occurs six chapters into the book, not at the beginning.
[[spoiler:FakeMemories]]: Heavily implied to have happened to [[spoiler:Tiffany]] at the end.
[[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: The [[spoiler:epilogue.]]

* GIFT: Adam is an interesting inversion; he's really quite personable on the internet, but real life [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jerkass is a different story]].
* Goth: From the first line of chapter one: “Georgia's going through a 'goth' phase.”

* Jerkass: Adam Vasquez. Though he sees himself as a good guy.
** To be fair, it's not as if he's as bad as say, Deciduan Boroniaden.

* Magitek: There are elements of this, such as GPIA's grappling harness, purportedly made from the same [[AWizardDidIt magic stuff]] as Celestine's plant powers.
* Masquerade: Heavily implied to be enforced by GPIA and SISA.

* MonstrousHumanoid: Dillon's gargoyle form.

* Muggles

[[spoiler:OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding]]: Or, better put, [[spoiler:only the leads get out alive]], considering [[spoiler:SISA's obliteration of Boroniaden in the epilogue]].

Telepathy: Antonio the telepath, obviously. Also his mother (his father's magical status is as of yet unknown) and his aunt, who is also Nina and Adam's mother.

* Voluntary Shapeshifting: Most notably Georgia and her weredingo family, but this also applies to gargoyles when in the Alterworld. And, depending on your point of view, Nina and Adam.
* WhamLine: Macwhirter seems to be a fan of these.

* UncannyValley: Lotus.
** [[spoiler:The changelings.]]