History Literature / NewNight

%%* GirlInABox: 'The thing in the tank'.

* HappyEndingOverride: [[spoiler: Specifically, ''New Night'' overrides the KillEmAll ending of ''Eden Green'' by revealing that Eden, Veronica, ''and'' Kazuma all survived Eden's plan to destroy them with the blue pulse. Everyone has suffered in the interim, and Eden remains suicidal, but [[SequelHook the ending is optimistic about their future]]]].

%%* TheWormThatWalks

* TheLostWoods: Io has recurring dreams about a mysterious wood on the other side of the portals.

%%* HodgepodgeComputer: Condy's laptop.

%%* NonNaziSwastika: The Exes.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Io isn't interested in LawfulGood Lucas, and expresses interest in the much rougher Zechariah early on.

--> ''The quarantined city of Gothic is leaking its secrets... and its monsters.''

But just when things look bleak, a mysterious young woman named Io blows into the camp. Her fate is tied to that of Gothic, and the quarantine’s ruthless director will recapture her even if it means plunging the FEMA camp into chaos. Lucas — with the help of his stoner friend Zechariah and a cryptic old computer wizard known as Mr. Condy — must fight tooth-and-nail for the innocents he has sworn to protect.

* AlienInvasion

* AlienSky

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The young woman in the tank]].
* [[spoiler:AndTheAdventureContinues]]

* [[BattleInTheRain Battle in the Dimensional Storm]]

* BizarreAlienBiology

* BodyHorror

* CompleteImmortality
* ContentWarnings

* DaylightHorror
* DeathSeeker: See DrivenToSuicide.

* FirstPersonSmartass

* GirlInABox: 'The thing in the tank'.

* HealingFactor: The aciculars.
* HeroicHost: Io, [[spoiler:Zechariah]], and [[spoiler:Eden when 'backpacking']].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Zechariah and Lucas.
* HodgepodgeComputer: Condy's laptop.

* ImmortalLifeIsCheap
* ImmortalityHurts

* InstantMassJustAddWater: The humanoid aciculars.

* KilledMidSentence: When [[spoiler:Lucas]] gets a little too close to the truth for Drews' liking.
* LampreyMouth
* LovecraftianSuperpower

* NonNaziSwastika: The Exes.

* OnlySaneMan: Lucas considers himself this. Drews probably does, too.

* SaveBothWorlds

* SouthernGothic
* SubspaceOrHyperspace: W-space.

* TheSymbiote
* TheUnmasquedWorld
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse

* TransformationHorror

* ViralTransformation

* WhenTreesAttack
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
* TheWormThatWalks

* MentorShip: Implied between Dr. Meer and [[spoiler:Eden]].

* TitleDrop: Late in the book, a 'new night' ('noon-it') is [[spoiler:a military code word for 'an asset out of bounds' (possibly shortened from 'new nightmare'), such as escaped acicular humanoids and a stolen hammer]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever

-> ''The quarantined city of Gothic is leaking its secrets... and its monsters.''

->Drews heaves a sigh and [[spoiler:shoots Lucas in the head]].

->In the middle of the street, beset by three different aliens, Zechariah meets [[spoiler:Kazuma]].

->Before her needle-transformation into Io — before the endless running and hiding — before the agony of knowing [[spoiler:her blood-sister was locked in containment]] — she had called herself [[spoiler:Veronica]].

->"My name is [[spoiler:Eden Green]]."

->"My name is [[spoiler:Eden Green]]."

''[[http://homework.never-ends.net/newnight/ New Night]]'' is Fiona van Dahl's second novel, released through Amazon Kindle under [[ScienceFiction 'science fiction']] and '{{thriller}}'. It is a (stand-alone) sequel to her scifi/horror novel ''[[Literature/EdenGreen Eden Green]]''; therefore, assume ''New Night'' (and this entire page) '''spoils the ending of ''Eden Green'''''. The author has also released a free online serial, ''[[Literature/CityOnTheEdgeOfNowhere City on the Edge of Nowhere]],'' to bridge the gap between the books.

* AnotherDimension: Time on Earth even moves faster than time on the other side of the portals.

* BattleInTheRain: The storm.

* FreudianSlip: While giving Condy a tour of the facility, Drews mentions 'acicular' ([[spoiler: a needle-like crystal form in mineralogy]]) teammates and then claims he meant 'ancillary'.

* SealedEvilInACan: Drews keeps a powerful needle monster locked up inside the Gothic quarantine facility. It turns out to be [[spoiler:[[PeopleJars an infected human]] who is also [[SealedGoodInACan one of the good guys]]]] who proceeds to [[SealedBadassInACan help Lucas fight back out of the facility]].

* AdaptiveArmor

* WhamLine: In the second half, revelations start coming rapid-fire.
-> [[spoiler:Before her needle-transformation into Io — before the endless running and hiding — before the agony of knowing her blood-sister was locked in containment — she had called herself Veronica.]]

''[[http://homework.never-ends.net/newnight/ New Night]]'' is Fiona van Dahl's second novel, released through Amazon Kindle under [[ScienceFiction 'science fiction']] and '{{thriller}}'. It is a (stand-alone) sequel to her scifi/horror novel ''[[Literature/EdenGreen Eden Green]]''; therefore, assume ''New Night'' (and this entire page) spoils the ending of ''Eden Green''. The author has also released a free online serial, ''[[Literature/CityOnTheEdgeOfNowhere City on the Edge of Nowhere]],'' to bridge the gap between the books.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: While speaking with Condy, Drews says the word "acicular" and then claims he meant to say "ancillary". For those who don't know, "acicular" can mean [[spoiler: a needle-like crystal form in mineralogy, making that particular misspoken word stick out a bit.]]
* HappyEndingOverride: Well...it's kind of complicated. [[spoiler: The revelation that Eden, Veronica, and Kazuma all survived Eden's plan to destroy them at the end of the last book does eventually work out for the characters themselves, but they all go through a lot of horrible stuff in the aftermath, especially Eden, who is still suicidal, perhaps even more so. In the end, though, the three have managed another happy ending along with Lucas.]]

* WhamLine: Oh, many.
** [[spoiler: Before her needle-transformation into Io — before the endless running and hiding — before the agony of knowing her blood-sister was locked in containment — she had called herself Veronica.]]

* Foreshadowing: While speaking with Condy, Drews says the word "acicular" and then claims he meant to say "ancillary". For those who don't know, "acicular" can mean [[spoiler: a needle-like crystal form in mineralogy, making that particular misspoken word stick out a bit.]]

* NoFEMAResponse: Averted. As detailed in ''City on the Edge of Nowhere'', the government response to the Gothic Disaster was surprisingly efficient.