History Literature / SpiderCircus

* DisproportionateRetribution: Lizzie doesn’t kowtow to Selena, so Selena tries to kill her. Maybe. You can’t prove it.

Young Lizzie McCoy is living an ordinary life in a small English village, she goes to school, babysits her brothers and tries to cope with her parents’ divorce but after one argument too many Lizzie runs away and joins the Spider Circus. It doesn’t take her long to realise it isn’t an ordinary circus and soon Lizzie is travelling from world to world helping the circus put on the best show not on earth. But not everyone is being honest with Lizzie, like the Ringmaster, Jack, for example. He’s taken a particular interest in her and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jack. And Doctor Scott is a bit absentminded, to Damien’s misforte.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Shadows seem to be the inspiration for vampires myths in many different worlds, but besides being pale, not liking sunlight and [collecting blood] they don’t have much in common with vampires of myth.

* SeenItAll: Or so Lizzie claims, then she sees the dragons.

* TeamMom: Jack is in charge of the circus. Kate and Maria are in charge of Jack

Spider Circus is the first novel in The Shadows series and it is the debut novel of Alice Nuttall, co-creator of Footloose.

AliensSpeakingEnglish: Lizzie has no trouble understanding the people in the worlds they visit. Justified because Jack only visits worlds where he can speak the language.
TheCasanova: Dmitri.
CallASmeerpARabbit: the carnivorous ‘horse’ probably wouldn’t be a horse by our definition.

CrapsackWorld: Damien’s homeworld. [[spoiler:Thanks to what sounds like a nuclear holocaust.]]

{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Jack. And Doctor Scott is a bit absentminded, to Damien’s misfortune.

DeadpanSnarker: Most of the characters but especially Lizzie.

DisproportionateRetribution: Lizzie doesn’t kowtow to Selena, so Selena tries to kill her. Maybe. You can’t prove it.

{{Eyescream}}: Almost happens to Damien.

FluffyTheTerrible: Tansy, the mechanic hyena.

GratuitousFrench: Latin actually.

OminousLatinChanting: Sort of. It’s a bit ominous.

WrenchWench: Lizzie.

SeenItAll: Or so Lizzie claims, then she sees the dragons.

OurDragonsAreDifferent: They don’t breathe fire.

OurVampiresAreDifferent: The Shadows seem to be the inspiration for vampires myths in many different worlds, but besides being pale, not liking sunlight and [collecting blood] they don’t have much in common with vampires of myth.

OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They seem to be ordinary humans with a psychic link to ordinary wolves.

NoodleIncident: Whatever Dmitri did to get the circus chased out of Mediton. And Doctor Scott’s offhand comment about poorly made sentient machines having a tendency to ‘rampage’.

{{Metaphorgotten}}: The worlds are like a knitting basket but more like the wool in a knitting basket. But there are cracks. In the wool.

StraightGay: [[spoiler:Damien]]

TeamMom: Jack is in charge of the circus. Kate and Maria are in charge of Jack

WeaksauceWeakness: Steel can stop magic.

WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Lizzie and her fear of heights.

AliensSpeakingEnglish: Lizzie has no trouble understanding the people in the worlds they visit. Justified because Jack only visits worlds where he can speak the language. TheCasanova: Dmitri. CallASmeerpARabbit: the carnivorous ‘horse’ probably wouldn’t be a horse by our definition.

AliensSpeakingEnglish: Lizzie has no trouble understanding the people in the worlds they visit. Justified because Jack only visits worlds where he can speak the language.
TheCasanova: Dmitri.
CallASmeerpARabbit: the carnivorous ‘horse’ probably wouldn’t be a horse by our definition.

CrapsackWorld: Damien’s homeworld. [Thanks to what sounds like a nuclear holocaust.]