History Literature / TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Both played straight and averted.
** Stefania and Apollonia, the owners of night club Terra Del Fuego and burlesque hall The Music Box, are twin sisters and practically identical in appearance and personality, with the only slight difference being that Stefania is more of a numbers person, while Apollonia cares more for the show.
** Averted with [[spoiler:Nikita and Ture]], with one being an aloof, Asiatic girl, while the other is a FieryRedhead and a guy.

* AsianAirhead: Nikita disguises herself as one on her job, as this is her target's fetish.

* TheAgeless: All the Pillars have been unchanged since the Forties.
* TheAllegedCar: The Chevy in Aleks' garage. Aleks is adamant that he'll fix it, but so far, he's never managed to make its engine run for more than fifteen minutes.
* TheBeastmaster: Bestiar can command and communicate with rats.
* TheBerserker: Nikita is one, after her father. When her body heat is too high and she has too much adrenaline, she [[HulkingOut hulks out]] and gains extra teeth and insatiable BloodLust.
* TheDreaded: Ernest the Mad, especially for Nikita and Kosma. As a legendary berserk, he's feared across the world, but to them, he's an abusive parent who hunts down all his offspring to kill them.
* TheGadfly: Freya loves to visit newcomers to Asgard and flirt with them, then reveal that she can read their minds.
* TheMole: It turns out that [[spoiler:Remi, one of the Bears]] is the spy on the team, as he resents Nikita for [[spoiler:his father dying while rescuing her years ago]].
* TheReveal: Several.
** [[spoiler:Nikita has a half-brother who grew up with Ernest.]]
** [[spoiler:Ture is not after Nikita, but her mother.]]
** [[spoiler:Robin is over two hundred years old, and his memories are Nikita's implanted into him.]]
** [[spoiler:Robin has committed suicide five times already.]]
** [[spoiler:Last but not least, Nikita's real name is Erynia.]]
* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Robin uses crossbow, as it's quieter and has greater punching power against some gun-proof monsters.
* TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Just as Nikita feels safe at her hidden back-up apartment, the BigBad drops a box of dead mantids on her doorstep.

* ShesGotLegs: Freya does, and isn't afraid to show it.

* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Nikita has very little control over her hulking out, and has to use a spinal implant to keep her adrenaline levels in check least she transforms into a rampaging monster in the middle of the street.
* InvoluntaryTransformation:

* BikerBabe: Panda, one of the Bears. When she pretends to be Nikita, the latter comments that she's too attractive for anyone to believe the illusion.

** Eventually, it turns out that [[spoiler:Nikita's entire trip to Asgard]] was this trope taken UpToEleven.

* BiggerBad: Ultimately, [[spoiler:Irena is the true villain of the book]], as is Ernest, even though he never really appears.

* BadassBeard: Robin, a Shadow and an excellent sniper, has a lumberjack beard.

* RealityEnsues:

* {{Humanshifting}}: As Nikita's berserk powers transform her body, she's learned to harness it to change herself a little, such as emphasizing her Asian featurs to blend in with the crowd at an Asian burlesque.

* TeenGenius: Karma is a brillian teenage hacker who wields numbers magic.

* {{Adorkable}}: Robin. Sure, he's a professional killer, but he's also nice and ''way'' too trusting of people, and is absolutely flabbergasted, actually blushes and turns back awkwardly whenever a women in a more revealing outfit is around.

* BadassLesbian: Nikita is lesbian, and a professional killer and a berserk.

* BiTheWay: Freya is happy to flirt with both Nikita and Ture.

''The Girl From The Miracles District'' is an urban fantasy series by Aneta Jadowska, and another spin-off of her earlier work, ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries''. So far, it's composed of two novels - ''The Girl From The Miracles District'' and ''The Midwife of Gods''.

It is in Wars that Nikita lives. An assassin with secrets aplenty, nicknamed "the Mantis" by her coworkers, she's employed by the Order of Shadows, a group of {{Private Military Contractor}}s run by a woman called Irena, secretly Nikita's mother. Lately, Nikita hasn't been having a good time. For starters, Wars is going through a season of heavy storms, and monsters are roaming the streets. As if that wasn't problematic enough, in yet another attempt by Irena to keep an eye on her, Nikita is assigned a partner, a man called Robin, whose official backstory couldn't be more obviously false and who doesn't even remember what his ''real'' backstory is. As Nikita's trying to figure out a way to get rid of him, another news comes - her friend, a burlesque singer from the time-stuck Miracles District, has gone missing, likely taken out of the town-within-town. The peculiar nature of the place's magic means that if Zelda doesn't return into its borders within a few days, she will go into coma and die - and no-one has any idea where she went.

And just to add insult to the injury, someone mails a peculiar gift to Nikita's supposed safe hiding spot - thirty roses, each accompanied by a dead preying mantis pinned to its stalk.
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!!Tropes in this book:

* AfterTheEnd: Wars has that feel. Seventy years before, a catastrophe came through the ley lines. They respond to emotions in both worlds, so when Warszawa - Wars' and Sawa's human equivalent - became embroiled in the horrors of World War Two, the ley lines became poisoned with hatred and evil, causing present problems. Nikita compares it to an ecological disaster.

* BadassBiker: The Bears are an entire gang - or chapter, as they call themselves - of those. Nikita and Robin also qualify.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Iben's backstory - he had an immortal huldra wife, and as he was aging, he got an offer from Frigg to make one of his wishes come true. He wished to be immortal, not knowing that huldra can only bond themselves to mortals. As a result, he and his wife became StarCrossedLovers.

** Beneath her public persona of an AloofDarkHairedGirl, Nikita is a very scared - and scarred - woman.
** A magical variety of this happens with Jakub's photographs - if made on an old-timey camera with a film, they show the true nature of the place or person presented and influences others have on them, although often cryptically.

* CoolBigBro: Kosma, Nikita's half-brother. He's older than her by centuries, and when he realized they're related, he falsified her magic scan results so that Irena wouldn't find out she's a berserk - and that's before the two of them even met. He provides Nikita with a ton of care and emotional support she's been missing for most of her life.

* FrozenInTime: A weird in-universe version with the Miracles District. The spell wished for things to return to normal in dark magic-ravaged Wars, and so the magic interpreted this as pushing everything back in time to 1936. Barely any technology beyond that time can work within the District - cars don't work, and it took a lot of magical gymnastics to install a modern fridge - and the entire decoration and culture, as well as some people, have to stay the same for the spell to work.

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Inverted as "if it's good for you, it must taste bad" - the woman who makes Nikita's {{Healing Potion}}s deliberately makes them as awful as possible to discourage Nikita from putting herself in harm's way.
* IHaveManyNames: Nikita has dozens of false names - even "Nikita" isn't her true one - by which she goes in her different hideouts.

** The berserk breakthrough is triggered by severe trauma or stress, and the person affected has no control over it - in fact, many berserks weren't even aware of what they were before they had a breakthrough.

* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler:The entire campaign of threats against Nikita, the kidnapping of Zelda and vague intentions of harm to Aleks or Karma were all to lead Nikita way from Ture's true target - Irena.]]

* OrphansPlotTrinket: Robin believes that his pedant is this, as this was the only thing he had with him when he was dropped at the doors of an Order outpost in Italy. [[spoiler:It's false - whatever happened with him, he didn't grow up in the Order.]]

* PowerNullifier: A willing example. Nikita wears a spinal chip that helps control her adrenaline levels, essentially nullifying her berserkerism - to some extent.

** In ''Gods Must Be Crazy'', her mother was called Lilianna - which, admittedly, could be explained by Irena having several names.

** Zelda and Nikita are unwilling to make a RelationshipUpgrade because they're afraid this would happen - Nikita can't live in the Miracles District without getting trapped there, while Zelda and her daughter can't leave it or they'll die.

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* ImAHumanitarian: The Norwegian trolls eat human flesh, making them invaluable whenever Nikita has to deal with yet another gang of mercenaries.

* BadassBiker: The Bears are an entire gang - or chapter, as they call themselves - of those.