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* TheJailBaitWait: Horribly averted. Because women have such short lifespans, waiting until they're adults to have sex isn't an option.
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%% * TheChewToy: Cecily.
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%% * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Cecily and Linden]] in Sever.
%% * FauxAffablyEvil: Vaughn.
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%% * TheJailBaitWait: Horribly averted.
%% * TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Rose]] is this to Linden.
%% * LoveTriangle: Rhine with Gabriel and Linden.
%% * MadScientist: Vaughn seems to be one.
%% * MadScientistLaboratory: There's one beneath the house.
%% * TheJailBaitWait: Horribly averted.
%% * TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Rose]] is this to Linden.
%% * LoveTriangle: Rhine with Gabriel and Linden.
%% * MadScientist: Vaughn seems to be one.
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%% * MaritalRapeLicense: Weirdly, seems to be a Type B.
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%% ** Cecily [[spoiler:who shoots Vaughn near the end of the series.]].
%% ** To a lesser extent, Linden, who stands up to his father where his (Linden's) son Bowen is concerned.
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Vaughn]] is revealed to be one in ''Sever'', in regards to both [[spoiler:his son and the virus]].
%% * TookALevelInBadass:
%% ** Cecily [[spoiler:who shoots Vaughn near the end of the series.]].
%% ** To a lesser extent, Linden, who stands up to his father where his (Linden's) son Bowen is concerned.
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Vaughn]] is revealed to be one in ''Sever'', in regards to both [[spoiler:his son and the virus]].
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** The book can't seem to decide if the cause for the DepopulationBomb is a virus or genetic engineering, which are two very different things.\\
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Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying.
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Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying.
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** The book can't seem to decide if the cause for the DepopulationBomb is a virus or genetic engineering, which are two very different things.\\
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Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying.
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Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying.
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* AbusiveParents: Vaughn towards Linden, who he emotionally controls to an extremely unhealthy extent. [[spoiler: Sever makes it clear that ultimately, he really does love his son deeply, and the abuse is well-intentioned, but it doesn't excuse his actions.]]
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* AbusiveParents: Vaughn towards Linden, who he emotionally controls to an extremely unhealthy extent. [[spoiler: Sever [[spoiler:''Sever'' makes it clear that ultimately, he really does love his son deeply, and the abuse is well-intentioned, but it doesn't excuse his actions.]]actions]].
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** The book can't seem to decide if the cause for the DepopulationBomb is a virus or genetic engineering, which are two very different things.
*** Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Apparently, among other things, WorldWarThree caused the ice caps to melt and now everything but America is underwater. However, Manhattan and America's coastline are somehow completely fine. Furthermore, all of the countries and continents are rubble, destroyed during the war. Rhine mentions that all that's left are tiny uninhabitable islands and the continent of North America. All of this destruction has absolutely no ill effects on the ecosystem, weather, sea level, or anything else in America. [[spoiler: Sever hints at this not being entirely true, however.]]
*** Furthermore, the nice thing about genetic engineering is that it's almost always reversible, since there's always a copy of the original genome floating around somewhere. It would be easy for the geneticists to reverse the changes after people started dying.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Apparently, among other things, WorldWarThree caused the ice caps to melt and now everything but America is underwater. However, Manhattan and America's coastline are somehow completely fine. Furthermore, all of the countries and continents are rubble, destroyed during the war. Rhine mentions that all that's left are tiny uninhabitable islands and the continent of North America. All of this destruction has absolutely no ill effects on the ecosystem, weather, sea level, or anything else in America. [[spoiler: Sever hints at this not being entirely true, however.]]
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** The book can't seem to decide if the cause for the DepopulationBomb is a virus or genetic engineering, which are two very different things.
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*ArtisticLicenseGeography: ArtisticLicenseGeography:
** Apparently, among other things, WorldWarThree caused the ice caps to melt and now everything but America is underwater. However, Manhattan and America's coastline are somehow completely fine. Furthermore, all of the countries and continents are rubble, destroyed during the war. Rhine mentions that all that's left are tiny uninhabitable islands and the continent of North America. All of this destruction has absolutely no ill effects on the ecosystem, weather, sea level, or anything else in America.[[spoiler: Sever [[spoiler:''Sever'' hints at this not being entirely true, however.]]however]].
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** Apparently, among other things, WorldWarThree caused the ice caps to melt and now everything but America is underwater. However, Manhattan and America's coastline are somehow completely fine. Furthermore, all of the countries and continents are rubble, destroyed during the war. Rhine mentions that all that's left are tiny uninhabitable islands and the continent of North America. All of this destruction has absolutely no ill effects on the ecosystem, weather, sea level, or anything else in America.
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** WritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Rhine mentions that the remains of the destroyed areas are so small they can't be seen by satellite. Satellites can actually see ''really'' small things -- sandbars, for example.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Happens to the kidnapped women.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Happens to the kidnapped women.
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* AbductionIsLove: Actually seems to work.
* BigBad: Vaughn
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* BrattyHalfPint: Cecily, until CharacterDevelopment kicks in.
* TheChewToy: Cecily.
* CozyCatastrophe: Sort of; after Rhine is kidnapped, the world is still falling apart, but she's insulated from it all.
* CreatorProvincialism: Extreme example; everywhere except America has been destroyed offstage. [[spoiler: Sever suggests this might not be entirely true, though.]]
* DisposableWoman: How all women are treated in the setting.
* DistressedDamsel: Rhine and her sister-wives.
* TheChewToy: Cecily.
* CozyCatastrophe: Sort of; after Rhine is kidnapped, the world is still falling apart, but she's insulated from it all.
* CreatorProvincialism: Extreme example; everywhere except America has been destroyed offstage. [[spoiler: Sever suggests this might not be entirely true, though.]]
* DisposableWoman: How all women are treated in the setting.
* DistressedDamsel: Rhine and her sister-wives.
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%% * TheChewToy: Cecily.
%% * CozyCatastrophe: Sort of; after Rhine is kidnapped, the world is still falling apart, but she's insulated from it all.
* CreatorProvincialism: Extreme example; everywhere except America has been destroyed offstage.[[spoiler: Sever [[spoiler:''Sever'' suggests this might not be entirely true, though.]]
*though]].
%%* DisposableWoman: How all women are treated in the setting.
%% * DistressedDamsel: Rhine and her sister-wives.
%% * TheChewToy: Cecily.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Linden.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vaughn.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Cecily and Linden]] in Sever.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Vaughn.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Cecily and Linden]] in Sever.
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%% * ExtremeDoormat: Linden.
%% * FauxAffablyEvil: Vaughn.
%% * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Cecily and Linden]] in Sever.
%% * FauxAffablyEvil: Vaughn.
%% * HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Cecily and Linden]] in Sever.
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* InfantImmortality: Averted to ridiculous levels; kids die more often than adults.
* TheJailBaitWait: Horribly averted.
* [[LetsPlay Let's Read]]: One for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Wither Wither,]]'' one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Fever Fever,]]'' and one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Sever Sever.]]''
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Rose]] is this to Linden.
* LoveTriangle: Rhine with Gabriel and Linden, sort of.
* MadScientist: Vaughn seems to be one.
* MadScientistLaboratory: There's one beneath the house.
* TheJailBaitWait: Horribly averted.
* [[LetsPlay Let's Read]]: One for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Wither Wither,]]'' one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Fever Fever,]]'' and one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Sever Sever.]]''
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Rose]] is this to Linden.
* LoveTriangle: Rhine with Gabriel and Linden, sort of.
* MadScientist: Vaughn seems to be one.
* MadScientistLaboratory: There's one beneath the house.
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%% * InfantImmortality: Averted to ridiculous levels; kids die more often than adults.
%% * TheJailBaitWait: Horribly averted.
* [[LetsPlay Let's Read]]: One for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Wither Wither,]]'' one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Fever Fever,]]'' and one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Sever Sever.]]''
%% * TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Rose]] is this to Linden.
%% * LoveTriangle: Rhine with Gabriel andLinden, sort of.
Linden.
%% * MadScientist: Vaughn seems to be one.
%% * MadScientistLaboratory: There's one beneath the house.
%% * TheJailBaitWait: Horribly averted.
%% * LoveTriangle: Rhine with Gabriel and
%% * MadScientist: Vaughn seems to be one.
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* MaritalRapeLicense: Weirdly, seems to be a Type B.
* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Genetic enhancement is causing the extinction of the human race.
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* NoTranshumanismAllowed: Genetic enhancement is causing the extinction of the human race.
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* OnlyFatalToAdults: The disease that plagues Rhine's generation.
* TooDumbToLive: The Gathers, and arguably the society in general. All the women in this world drop dead at the age of 20, and all the men at the age of 25. Rather than keeping every woman alive for as long as possible so they can reproduce and keep the human species from going extinct, the Gatherers, for some obscure reason, kidnap as many young women as possible and then kill all those who aren't chosen as brides for their employers.
* TeenPregnancy: Cecily
* TookALevelInBadass: Cecily [[spoiler: who shoots Vaughn near the end of the series.]].
** To a lesser extent, Linden, who stands up to his father where his (Linden's) son Bowen is concerned.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Vaughn]] is revealed to be one in Sever, in regards to both [[spoiler:his son and the virus]].
* TooDumbToLive: The Gathers, and arguably the society in general. All the women in this world drop dead at the age of 20, and all the men at the age of 25. Rather than keeping every woman alive for as long as possible so they can reproduce and keep the human species from going extinct, the Gatherers, for some obscure reason, kidnap as many young women as possible and then kill all those who aren't chosen as brides for their employers.
* TeenPregnancy: Cecily
* TookALevelInBadass: Cecily [[spoiler: who shoots Vaughn near the end of the series.]].
** To a lesser extent, Linden, who stands up to his father where his (Linden's) son Bowen is concerned.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Vaughn]] is revealed to be one in Sever, in regards to both [[spoiler:his son and the virus]].
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* OnlyFatalToAdults: The disease that plagues Rhine's generation.
* TooDumbToLive:generation. The Gathers, and arguably the society in general. All the women in this world drop dead all die at the age of 20, twenty, and all the men all die at the age of 25. Rather than keeping every woman alive for as long as possible so they can reproduce and keep the human species from going extinct, the Gatherers, for some obscure reason, kidnap as many young women as possible and then kill all those who aren't chosen as brides for their employers.
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%% *TookALevelInBadass: TookALevelInBadass:
%% ** Cecily[[spoiler: who [[spoiler:who shoots Vaughn near the end of the series.]].
%% ** To a lesser extent, Linden, who stands up to his father where his (Linden's) son Bowen is concerned.
%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Vaughn]] is revealed to be one inSever, ''Sever'', in regards to both [[spoiler:his son and the virus]].
* WritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Rhine mentions that the remains of the destroyed areas are so small they can't be seen by satellite. Satellites can actually see ''really'' small things -- sandbars, for example.
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* WritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Rhine mentions that the remains of the destroyed areas are so small they can't be seen by satellite. Satellites can actually see ''really'' small things -- sandbars, for example.
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* [[LetsPlay Let's Read]]: One for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Wither Wither]]'' and one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Fever Fever.]]''
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* [[LetsPlay Let's Read]]: One for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Wither Wither]]'' and Wither,]]'' one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Fever Fever.Fever,]]'' and one for ''[[http://dragon-quill.blogspot.com/search/label/Sever Sever.]]''