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* BlackComedy: The entire book is one long series of events resulting from giving the ability to leap bodies (through murder) to self-entitled man-child. The fact Terry is a MORON only worsens the situation.
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* WhatAnIdiot: If one discovered you had the ability to switch bodies with someone through murder, you might contemplate any number of crimes. This might include trying to become extraordinarily rich or attractive, for instance. Terry entertains some of these thoughts but is so frigging STUPID, just ends up creating massive piles of bodies.
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* VillainProtagonist: Terry gets the vast majority of page-time and perspective in the book.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Terry successfully possesses a new body and is implied to murder Rose soon after. Alex has started seriously practicing the black magic he half-assed before.]]
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* TheVillainWins: [[spoiler: Alex goes to jail but this just gives him a chance to learn how to properly speak Latin and study magic. Terry manages to get the body of Rose's protector.]]
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* KickTheDog: A near-literal example. Terry murders a dog in the beginning of the book. This is so he can resurrect another dog (a friend's) he accidentally killed through necromancy. Yes, I'm serious.
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''Literature/{{Skinjumper}}'' is a BlackComedy Horror novel by Lincoln Crisler and published by Literature/RagnarokPublications.
It follows Rose Bennett, a young, recently-widowed mother, comes face to face with a newly-minted murderer and learns that there are much scarier things than raising a child alone in an unfamiliar town. Terry Miller has discovered three things in a very short amount of time: his high school sweetheart's been cheating on him with his father, killing is fun, and if he does it just right, he can switch bodies with his victims. The book follows Terry as he finds himself in increasingly absurd situations and becomes fixated on destroying Rose.
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This book contains the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: Henry sleeps with his son's girlfriend behind his back and tries to justify it to his face (when his son is covered in her blood). He shows no real concern about the fact his son just murdered his mistress. Really, Terry killing him is the most understandable thing in the book.
* AutoeroticAsphyxiation: One of the more random encounters in the book is a woman asking Terry to engage in this during sex.
* BlackComedy: The entire book is one long series of events resulting from giving the ability to leap bodies (through murder) to self-entitled man-child. The fact Terry is a MORON only worsens the situation.
* CrapsackWorld: ''Everyone'' is a complete asshole in this book with the exception of Rose and a few victims.
** CrapsaccharineWorld: It also takes place in the middle of the suburbs.
* ForWantOfANail: The entire plot is kicked off because of an incredibly bizarre series of circumstances, up to and including necromancy to resurrect a friend's dog. Any number of unlikely events being stopped would have the plot turn out far different.
* GrandTheftMe: Terry's ability due to a failed necromancy ritual.
* HateSink: Played with. Terry might have had some redeeming features before the ritual but they go out the window rapidly.
** Alex is, possibly, even worse.
* KickTheDog: A near-literal example. Terry murders a dog in the beginning of the book. This is so he can resurrect another dog (a friend's) he accidentally killed through necromancy. Yes, I'm serious.
** Terry's actions are one-long series of these, crossing the MoralEventHorizon repeatedly.
* MamaBear: Rose does ''not'' take threatening her child well.
* NiceGirl: Rose is, hands down, the most pleasant person in the book.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Terry is a moron. A truly stupid criminal. However, that just makes him MORE dangerous.
* OrgyOfEvidence: Terry leaves this behind in all of his crimes. Sometimes, because he's trying to. Mostly, because he's a really stupid criminal.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Alex and Terry are very causally ''huge'' misogynists.
* PsychopathicManchild: Terry has the emotional maturity of a fourteen-year-old and his reaction to the discovery of his body-hopping ability is that he likes it--even if it means killing people. ESPECIALLY if it means killing people.
* RapeAsDrama: Rose is afraid this might happen to her. Alex tries to do so to Terry when he's in a female body.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Terry would have gotten away with it if not for the fact he decided to go after Rose. What did Rose do? Had the audacity to witness him disposing of his girlfriend's body (plus his old one--long story).
* RomancingTheWidow: Jason is irresitably drawn to Rose.
* SanitySlippage: It's implied body-jumping does this. Terry actually seems to start coming out of it the longer he's in any individual body, then backslides immediately once he switches to a new one.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Not quite since Terry's mother is still alive but one of the first things he does in the book is kill his father (for semi-understandable reasons).
* SerialKiller: Terry rapidly becomes one of these in order to get the hang of his murder-based possession powers.
* {{Suburbia}}: The setting for much of the book.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Alex is a Satanist and necromancer who does petty magic in his backyard like raising dead dogs.
* WhatAnIdiot: If one discovered you had the ability to switch bodies with someone through murder, you might contemplate any number of crimes. This might include trying to become extraordinarily rich or attractive, for instance. Terry entertains some of these thoughts but is so frigging STUPID, just ends up creating massive piles of bodies.
* WidowWoman: Rose lost her husband in the War on Terror.
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It follows Rose Bennett, a young, recently-widowed mother, comes face to face with a newly-minted murderer and learns that there are much scarier things than raising a child alone in an unfamiliar town. Terry Miller has discovered three things in a very short amount of time: his high school sweetheart's been cheating on him with his father, killing is fun, and if he does it just right, he can switch bodies with his victims. The book follows Terry as he finds himself in increasingly absurd situations and becomes fixated on destroying Rose.
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This book contains the following tropes:
* AssholeVictim: Henry sleeps with his son's girlfriend behind his back and tries to justify it to his face (when his son is covered in her blood). He shows no real concern about the fact his son just murdered his mistress. Really, Terry killing him is the most understandable thing in the book.
* AutoeroticAsphyxiation: One of the more random encounters in the book is a woman asking Terry to engage in this during sex.
* BlackComedy: The entire book is one long series of events resulting from giving the ability to leap bodies (through murder) to self-entitled man-child. The fact Terry is a MORON only worsens the situation.
* CrapsackWorld: ''Everyone'' is a complete asshole in this book with the exception of Rose and a few victims.
** CrapsaccharineWorld: It also takes place in the middle of the suburbs.
* ForWantOfANail: The entire plot is kicked off because of an incredibly bizarre series of circumstances, up to and including necromancy to resurrect a friend's dog. Any number of unlikely events being stopped would have the plot turn out far different.
* GrandTheftMe: Terry's ability due to a failed necromancy ritual.
* HateSink: Played with. Terry might have had some redeeming features before the ritual but they go out the window rapidly.
** Alex is, possibly, even worse.
* KickTheDog: A near-literal example. Terry murders a dog in the beginning of the book. This is so he can resurrect another dog (a friend's) he accidentally killed through necromancy. Yes, I'm serious.
** Terry's actions are one-long series of these, crossing the MoralEventHorizon repeatedly.
* MamaBear: Rose does ''not'' take threatening her child well.
* NiceGirl: Rose is, hands down, the most pleasant person in the book.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Terry is a moron. A truly stupid criminal. However, that just makes him MORE dangerous.
* OrgyOfEvidence: Terry leaves this behind in all of his crimes. Sometimes, because he's trying to. Mostly, because he's a really stupid criminal.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Alex and Terry are very causally ''huge'' misogynists.
* PsychopathicManchild: Terry has the emotional maturity of a fourteen-year-old and his reaction to the discovery of his body-hopping ability is that he likes it--even if it means killing people. ESPECIALLY if it means killing people.
* RapeAsDrama: Rose is afraid this might happen to her. Alex tries to do so to Terry when he's in a female body.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Terry would have gotten away with it if not for the fact he decided to go after Rose. What did Rose do? Had the audacity to witness him disposing of his girlfriend's body (plus his old one--long story).
* RomancingTheWidow: Jason is irresitably drawn to Rose.
* SanitySlippage: It's implied body-jumping does this. Terry actually seems to start coming out of it the longer he's in any individual body, then backslides immediately once he switches to a new one.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Not quite since Terry's mother is still alive but one of the first things he does in the book is kill his father (for semi-understandable reasons).
* SerialKiller: Terry rapidly becomes one of these in order to get the hang of his murder-based possession powers.
* {{Suburbia}}: The setting for much of the book.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Alex is a Satanist and necromancer who does petty magic in his backyard like raising dead dogs.
* WhatAnIdiot: If one discovered you had the ability to switch bodies with someone through murder, you might contemplate any number of crimes. This might include trying to become extraordinarily rich or attractive, for instance. Terry entertains some of these thoughts but is so frigging STUPID, just ends up creating massive piles of bodies.
* WidowWoman: Rose lost her husband in the War on Terror.
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