History Literature / NeverLetMeLeave

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: How the Minkowski’s {{Dragon}} feels about Carrie given that he’s already murdered one of the immune.

* StunGuns: How the Minkowskis are destroyed, and the infected are purged.

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Some what justified as Thomas wanted the Minkowski dealt with before the doors were opened, but by the time David arrives with reinforcements [[spoiler: Ian]] and [[spoiler: Jolene]] have already been dealt with.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: For "Literature/NeverLetMeSleep", reveals that all the events of book one really happened.

* [[ActionSurvivor Action Survivors]]: Prior to coming to the Par Lab, Melissa defeated the Mega Aphis in Onida, South Dakota, and Sean defeated the Nehrings off the coast of the Orcas Islands.

* BiTheWay: Sean to Melissa and Carrie while they're watching Ian and Adam run. Carrie promptly owns it as well and high fives him.
--> "I'd do 'em. Both of them. What? I can appreciate the male form. I'm equal opportunity letch."

* [[{{Claustrophobia}} Claustrophobic]]: Sean. Semi-Justified, as it’s not put into context with his {{Claustrophobia}}, but Melissa does point out that he spent several days trapped on a boat with nowhere to go while the Nehrings were attacking.

* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Ian Brown]]
* {{Hallucinations}}: Melissa still has them, seeing black cobwebs, black butterflies, and the electricity on poor [[spoiler: Adam.]]

* MeaningfulName: The Minkowski’s true name is the Coalescence.
* PlayfulHacker: Carrie. She enjoys the exercise of hacking into things and getting one over on the people testing her, but she's not really malicious, just curious. This is why she's at the Par Lab instead of in a cell somewhere after hacking into certain Government data bases.
* PrettyBoy: Adam. Justified, in that he was genetically engineered to be perfect.

* PlayfulHacker: She enjoys the exercise of hacking into things, and she's very curious. She also enjoys getting one over on the people testing her, but she's not really malicious.

* IdiotBall: The Minkowski has one of its victims shoot another one of its victims instead of Doctor Giacomi. This both puts less people under its control and leaves both Sadie and Melissa alive to continue wreaking havoc with its plans.

* {{Claustrophobia}}: Semi-Justified, as it’s not put into context with his {{Claustrophobia}}, but Melissa does point out that he spent several days trapped on a boat with nowhere to go while the Nehrings were attacking.

-> “Clean? No. Defective.”

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: How the Minkowski’s {{Dragon}} feels about Carrie, given that’s he’s murdered one of the immune before.

* [[ActionSurvivor Action Survivors]]: Melissa Allen of the Mega Aphis Event in Onida, South Dakota, and Sean Macgregor of the Nehrings Event off the Orcas Islands.

* Claustrophobia: Unlike Adam's justified agoraphobia, Sean's {{Claustrophobia}} is never explained, but as Melissa puts it, "it sounded like he had several days of fighting and trapped on a boat with nowhere to go."

* Lockdown: Most of the conflict takes place in the Par Lab after a lockdown has started.

* PrettyBoy: Adam
* PuppeteerParasite: The Coalescence.
* SeekingTheMissingFindingTheDead: Poor [[spoiler: Sean]]

* [[ActionSurvivor Action Survivors]]: Melissa Allen of the Mega Aphis Event in Onida, South Dakota, and Sean MacGregor of the Nehrings Event off the Orcas Islands.

* {{ActionSurvivor}}: Melissa Allen of the Mega Aphis Event in Onida, South Dakota, and Sean MacGregor of the Nehrings Event off the Orcas Islands.

* {{ActionSurvivors}}: Melissa Allen of the Mega Aphis Event in Onida, South Dakota, and Sean MacGregor of the Nehrings Event off the Orcas Islands.