History Literature / FeralsSeries

* TheEndOrIsIt: ''The Crow Talker'' ends with [[spoiler:Caw noticing a white spider on his head, hinting that the Spinning Man isn't truly gone.]]

* NotGoodWithPeople: Felix Quaker prefers to stay away from the other ferals and remain in his mansion with his cats as his only form of company.

* {{Animorphism}}: Some ferals (such as Caw and the Spinning Man) can transform into their specific animal species.

--> '''Selina''': All this time, you used me. You pretended to care. You used my love for you and twisted it for your own ends. Well, now I've got new friends who I really care about, and you're not going to hurt them anymore.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler:Caw's parents cast him out to be protected by the crows in order to save him from being killed by the Spinning Man during the Dark Summer.]]

* MamaBear: Velma Strickham is very protective of her daughter, Lydia.

* [[ActionDad Action Mom]]:

* AncientArtifact: The Midnight Stone, a stone with the power to take away a feral's powers [[spoiler: and bestow them onto a non-feral who comes into contact with it while touching an animal.]]

* TheArtfulDodger: Caw.

** A straighter example in ''The White Widow's Revenge'' when [[spoiler: Caw and Selina use the Crow's Beak to return to the Land of the Living after being killed by the Spinning Man.]]
** [[spoiler: The Spinning Man manages to return to the living by possessing Selina Davenport and draining her of her life force until he can return in the flesh.]]
* BadassAndChildDuo: Crumb and Pip.

* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Johnny Fivetails]] towards Velma Strickham in ''The White Widow's Revenge''.

* BittersweetEnding: In ''The Swarm Descends''. [[spoiler: The Mother of Flies has been defeated and Blackstone has been saved, but Selina is in the hospital and the convicts freed by Cynthia are loose on the city, now even more dangerous with their newly-bestowed feral abilities.]]

* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler: The Mother of Flies' fate. As a result of straining her powers during her battle with Caw, Cynthia's bond with the flies is broken, rendering her harmless.]]

** [[spoiler: When Caw meets the spirits of his parents in the Land of the Dead, he calls them out for abandoning him when he was only five and making him believe that they didn't love him. However, he forgives them shortly afterwards.]]

* CoDragons: Mr. Silk and Pinkerton towards Cynthia Davenport, the Mother of Flies.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler: Caw's parents cast him out to be protected by the crows in order to save him from being killed by the Spinning Man during the Dark Summer.]]

* DeadSidekick: Happens to [[spoiler: Screech, one of Caw's primary crow companions]], in ''The White Widow's Revenge''.

** [[spoiler: The Mother of Flies later ends up severing her bond with the flies after exerting too much of her power in her battle with Caw.]]
** In ''The White Widow's Revenge'', [[spoiler: Caw temporarily has his feral abilities taken away from him by Black Corvus, but regains them in a confrontation with Corvus in the Land of the Dead.]]

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette:
** Caw, fitting as his AnimalMotif is that of a crow.
** The Spinning Man counts even moreso.
* TheEndOrIsIt: ''The Crow Talker'' ends with [[spoiler: Caw noticing a white spider on his head, hinting that the Spinning Man isn't truly gone.]]

* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler: The Spinning Man was this to Caw's mother, Elizabeth Carmichael.]]
* EvilMatriarch: The Mother of Flies towards her daughter, Selina.
* FamousAncestor: Caw is descended from Black Corvus, widely considered a hero among feral-kind. [[spoiler: He later learns that Corvus wasn't as heroic as he appeared.]]

* FieryRedhead: Both Velma and Lydia Strickham count.

* GiantSpider: The Spinning Man can transform into this.

* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Daughter]]: In ''The Swarm Descends'', Caw's group attempts to use Selina as leverage against Cynthia Davenport, but it fails as Cynthia doesn't care for her daughter's well-being.

* KidHero: Caw, of course.

* TheMole:
** Selina is given the job of befriending Caw and learning of the whereabouts of the other ferals so that Cynthia could ambush them. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as Selina was unaware of her mother's true goals, and joins Caw's group when she learns of Cynthia's EvilPlan.
** [[spoiler: Johnny Fivetails]] functions as this in ''The White Widow's Revenge''.

* NeckLift: Velma does this to Selina in ''The Swarm Descends''.

* OneBadMother: The Mother of Flies.

** Caw's parents flung him out of their house when he was only five years old. [[spoiler: It turns out it was to save him from the Spinning Man.]]
** [[spoiler: Gideon Marshall, the Spinning Man]], was abandoned by his own parents as an infant.

* ParentalSubstitute: Crumb towards Caw and Pip.
* PlatonicBoyGirlHeroes: Caw and Lydia Strickham.

* TheQuietOne: Milky the white crow.

* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Lydia, Selina and Caw.

* ''The Crow Talker (2015)''
* ''The Swarm Descends (2016)''
* ''The White Widow's Revenge (2016)''

* YouKilledMyFather: Caw's parents were murdered by the Spinning Man during the Dark Summer.

* OverarchingVillain: Gideon Marshall, aka the Spinning Man. The threat of his resurrection is the driving conflict of ''The Crow Talker'' and he's the BigBad of ''The White Widow's Revenge'', and his presence is felt throughout the series.

* HumanMomNonHumanDad:
** Caw's father was ordinary human, while his mother, Elizabeth, was a crow feral.
** Lydia has a normal human father, but her mother, Velma, is a fox feral.

* FingerlessGloves: Selina wears these.