Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:Lorna]] has one with [[spoiler:Von Rached]] at the end of ''Plague''. He takes back the shard of his consciousness that remained with her after she was resurrected in ''The World of M''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: The elder Donovans do this with Irish at the Marwa family gathering; Lorna took part of a Xanax before they met up, so she's unable to drink any alcohol, but doesn't want anyone else to know.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 41 (click to see context) from:
* LargeAndInCharge: Gavin, who's taken over running the DMA in the three years since the end of the last book. He stands at 6'3", and is also a BaldBlackLeaderGuy.
to:
* LargeAndInCharge: Gavin, who's taken over running the DMA in the three years since the end of the last book. He stands at 6'3", 6'3" and is bald, making him also a BaldBlackLeaderGuy.BaldOfAuthority.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* DishingOutDirt: Terrakinetic terrorists cause the [[spoiler:eruption of Kilimanjaro.]]
Deleted line(s) 63 (click to see context) :
* {{Terrakinesis}}: Terrakinetic terrorists cause the [[spoiler:eruption of Kilimanjaro.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* LargeAndInCharge: Gavin, who's taken over running the DMA in the three years since the end of the last book. He stands at 6'3", and is also a BaldBlackLeaderGuy.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Pat's eldest daughter is also called Lorna, which leads to a fair amount of confusion until they start being referred to as Lorna the Elder and Lorna the Younger. Lorna the Elder is not terribly amused.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 57 (click to see context) from:
* ShoutOut: Lorna's BadassBoast to Ashley is a subtle one to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
to:
* ShoutOut: Lorna's BadassBoast to Ashley is a subtle one to ''Series/DoctorWho''.[[note]]Specifically, it's paraphrasing a line spoken by the Eleventh Doctor[[/note]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
''The Years of M'' is an UrbanFantasy novel by Stevie Barry. It's the fifth book in ''Literature/TheMUniverse''
to:
''The Years of M'' is an UrbanFantasy novel by Stevie Barry. It's the fifth book in ''Literature/TheMUniverse''
''Literature/TheMUniverse'' [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yearsofmtvtropes.jpg]]
Changed line(s) 5,12 (click to see context) from:
* PLAGUE: [[BigBad Thorvald]] might be dead, but his is a gift that keeps on giving.
* TANZANIA: The Donovan-Duncans head to Tanzania, to meet youngest brother Mick's in-laws. It's exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
* GUARDIAN: The afterlife is not what Von Rached expected. Having nearly everything he could want has led to stultifying boredom, until Earth's chief deity bombs into his life and assigns him a task he is in no way prepared for.
There's a reason 'may you live in interesting times' is meant as a curse.
* TANZANIA: The Donovan-Duncans head to Tanzania, to meet youngest brother Mick's in-laws. It's exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
* GUARDIAN: The afterlife is not what Von Rached expected. Having nearly everything he could want has led to stultifying boredom, until Earth's chief deity bombs into his life and assigns him a task he is in no way prepared for.
There's a reason 'may you live in interesting times' is meant as a curse.
to:
* PLAGUE: ''Plague'': [[BigBad Thorvald]] might be dead, but his is a gift that keeps on giving.
*TANZANIA: ''Tanzania'': The Donovan-Duncans head to Tanzania, to meet youngest brother Mick's in-laws. It's exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
*GUARDIAN: ''Guardian'': The afterlife is not what Von Rached expected. Having nearly everything he could want has led to stultifying boredom, until Earth's chief deity bombs into his life and assigns him a task he is in no way prepared for.
for. There's a reason 'may you live in interesting times' is meant as a curse.
*
*
* ChekhovsVolcano: [[spoiler:Kilimanjaro]], of course. [[spoiler:Its eruption is artificially induced.]]
Changed line(s) 28 (click to see context) from:
* TheFettered: Lorna is this. The BigBad considers it a form of weakness, though she comes to regret it in a hurry. She shortly discovers that Lorna's self-fettering is a ''very good thing'', because if she became TheUnfettered, she'd be a living nightmare.
to:
* DeadpanSnarker: The cat, Creature, in spades. She and Von Rached often engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat.
* DisappearedDad: Pat is this for Lorna the Younger, to his everlasting shame.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sigyn, as was only fitting for an ambulance driver in World War I. It's also a Donovan thing, and it winds up becoming useful in the evacuation. Both Pat and Siobhan manage where others fail.
* TheFettered: Lorna is this. The BigBad considers it a form of weakness, though she comes to regret it in a hurry. She shortly discovers that Lorna's self-fettering is a ''very good thing'', because if she became TheUnfettered, she'd be a living nightmare. [[spoiler:Lorna essentially [[MindRape mind rapes]] her into a coma to get all the information the DMA needs.]]
* FirstLove: [[spoiler:Sigyn was this to Von Rached]], though he does his level best to deny it to himself and everyone else. [[spoiler:Understandable, considering he accidentally killed her.]]
* HealingHands: [[spoiler:Siobhan]] develops them, and nearly kills herself through overuse (due to inexperience). This has a tendency to happen to less experienced healers.
* ImColdSoCold: While nobody actually says this, the sick people all bundle up in blankets (this is common in real life, since fevers can make a person feel cold).
* TheImmune: Sharley and the zombies, obviously, given both are dead and thus incapable of acquiring any sort of illness.
* InTheBlood: Several people are worried this might prove to be the case for Mairead. The Blank is also very much a case for the green-eyed Donovans; Lorna has to try to find a way to aid the younger members of her family without traumatizing them like she was.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: While a cough isn't an automatic death sentence, it is if it's paired with cyanosis.
* InstantIllness: Once a person falls sick, symptoms progress very rapidly. Those it kills are generally dead within a day or two.
* KingIncognito: More like 'Norse God in Very Bad Disguise.' A giant, bearded, ginger weather-manipulator shows up to train Saoirse after she almost electrocutes half her cousins, calling himself 'Taranis' (the name for the Celtic thunder god). Everyone pretends they don't know who he really is. Sharley is...bemused.
* LackOfEmpathy: Still very much a feature of Von Rached's, and he's well aware of it.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: In-univere, the BigBad says this to Lorna, who she views as inferior because she has so much power she refuses to use. [[spoiler:She is...very wrong, because Lorna does indeed do it, and can't even be sorry about it.]]
*LongLostRelative: Nobody knew about Pat's eldest daughter (also called Lorna), because he was so ashamed of the fact that he utterly botched everything to do with her and her mother. The rest of the Donovans are thus very surprised when Lorna the Younger and her mother turn up at the DMA.
* LoopholeAbuse: All telepaths, including Mairead and Jerry, are forbidden from using their telepathy on anyone who hasn't explicitly agreed to it, but Lorna never said anything about not observing the world through another's eyes. Mairead makes use of this more than once.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Von Rached]] is so adamant in his refusal to accept [[spoiler:Sigyn]] as his LostLenore that the Lady basically forces him to confront it via memory-dreams.
* MassOhCrap: the general reaction when they work out that the virus is Thorvald's doing, however unintentional it was.
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Lorna does this to the BigBad]], and is somewhat worried by the fact that she feels no remorse about it.
* MyGreatestFailure: Pat considers his relationship with Grania and their daughter to be his. He freely admits that its failure was his fault, and has regretted it ever since. Von Rached would consider [[spoiler:Sigyn his, if he actually let himself think about her without being forced to.]]
* MysticalPlague: Courtesy of Thorvald. It's a remnant of the disease that wiped out most of the Gifted a thousand years before.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Played with. While it's ''possible'' to get a Donovan drunk, it takes a surprising amount of booze to manage it: the Marwa men attempt to get Pat drunk, and fail utterly. They also aren't totally immune to hangovers, though it takes quite a lot of alcohol to give them one.
* OhCrap: All over the place. Happens in the DMA [[spoiler: when they realize the extent of the terrorism attack, in Tanzania when Kilimanjaro is about to erupt, and again when they realize someone's set it off on purpose.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: [[spoiler:Von Rached]] was one, and the fact that [[spoiler:Lorna becomes one is a sign that there's a bit of him left in her head.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Lorna and Ratiri become this for Charlese, after [[spoiler:Caleb dies]].
* PersonalizedAfterlife: How the afterlife works in this universe. Von Rached comes to find his to be a terribly dull MundaneAfterlife, because nothing he does or studies or discovers will amount to anything at all.
* PowerIncontinence: Suffered by all the Donovans with the Blank. They're all strong enough that this makes them a real danger to themselves and others.
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Winds up not being necessary, as North America self-quarantines (though considering every place in the Northern Hemisphere is potentially infected, there wouldn't be any point even if someone wanted to).
* RunningGag: Prior to the Donovans' arrival in Tanzania, everyone says that it's a terrible idea. Turns out, they're all very right.
* ScaryBlackMan: Though Gavin normally doesn't like exploiting that trope, he's willing to do it to intimidate their captured terrorists. Unfortunately, it works a little too well on one guy, who [[PottyFailure pisses his pants.]]
* ShoutOut: Lorna's BadassBoast to Ashley is a subtle one to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* TheSociopath: Ashley, in spades. [[spoiler:She's willing to kill thousands upon thousands of people if it means she can take out one particular person.]]
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: In a sense. The echo of [[spoiler:Von Rached that was left in Lorna's mind can take over to a point, when she's working with anything medical.]]
* TalkingAnimal: Creature, the fluffy cat the Lady gives to Von Rached, though it takes quite a while for her to actually speak.
* {{Terrakinesis}}: Terrakinetic terrorists cause the [[spoiler:eruption of Kilimanjaro.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The BigBad was willing to [[spoiler:set off Kilimanjaro, and potentially kill tens of thousands of people, just to kill Lorna.]]
* TheTopicOfCancer: Lorna the Younger's mother, Grania, is in remission.
* UnknownRival: Ashley, the BigBad, is this for Lorna. What baffles Lorna is that Ashley is an incredibly powerful telepath in her own right, but instead of embracing it, she's pissed that there's someone out there stronger than she is.
* VacationEpisode: The Donovans all head to Tanzania, which is no more ready for them than they are for it.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: All of Von Rached's memory-dreams take place during the First World War.
* DisappearedDad: Pat is this for Lorna the Younger, to his everlasting shame.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sigyn, as was only fitting for an ambulance driver in World War I. It's also a Donovan thing, and it winds up becoming useful in the evacuation. Both Pat and Siobhan manage where others fail.
* TheFettered: Lorna is this. The BigBad considers it a form of weakness, though she comes to regret it in a hurry. She shortly discovers that Lorna's self-fettering is a ''very good thing'', because if she became TheUnfettered, she'd be a living nightmare. [[spoiler:Lorna essentially [[MindRape mind rapes]] her into a coma to get all the information the DMA needs.]]
* FirstLove: [[spoiler:Sigyn was this to Von Rached]], though he does his level best to deny it to himself and everyone else. [[spoiler:Understandable, considering he accidentally killed her.]]
* HealingHands: [[spoiler:Siobhan]] develops them, and nearly kills herself through overuse (due to inexperience). This has a tendency to happen to less experienced healers.
* ImColdSoCold: While nobody actually says this, the sick people all bundle up in blankets (this is common in real life, since fevers can make a person feel cold).
* TheImmune: Sharley and the zombies, obviously, given both are dead and thus incapable of acquiring any sort of illness.
* InTheBlood: Several people are worried this might prove to be the case for Mairead. The Blank is also very much a case for the green-eyed Donovans; Lorna has to try to find a way to aid the younger members of her family without traumatizing them like she was.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: While a cough isn't an automatic death sentence, it is if it's paired with cyanosis.
* InstantIllness: Once a person falls sick, symptoms progress very rapidly. Those it kills are generally dead within a day or two.
* KingIncognito: More like 'Norse God in Very Bad Disguise.' A giant, bearded, ginger weather-manipulator shows up to train Saoirse after she almost electrocutes half her cousins, calling himself 'Taranis' (the name for the Celtic thunder god). Everyone pretends they don't know who he really is. Sharley is...bemused.
* LackOfEmpathy: Still very much a feature of Von Rached's, and he's well aware of it.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: In-univere, the BigBad says this to Lorna, who she views as inferior because she has so much power she refuses to use. [[spoiler:She is...very wrong, because Lorna does indeed do it, and can't even be sorry about it.]]
*LongLostRelative: Nobody knew about Pat's eldest daughter (also called Lorna), because he was so ashamed of the fact that he utterly botched everything to do with her and her mother. The rest of the Donovans are thus very surprised when Lorna the Younger and her mother turn up at the DMA.
* LoopholeAbuse: All telepaths, including Mairead and Jerry, are forbidden from using their telepathy on anyone who hasn't explicitly agreed to it, but Lorna never said anything about not observing the world through another's eyes. Mairead makes use of this more than once.
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Von Rached]] is so adamant in his refusal to accept [[spoiler:Sigyn]] as his LostLenore that the Lady basically forces him to confront it via memory-dreams.
* MassOhCrap: the general reaction when they work out that the virus is Thorvald's doing, however unintentional it was.
* MindRape: [[spoiler:Lorna does this to the BigBad]], and is somewhat worried by the fact that she feels no remorse about it.
* MyGreatestFailure: Pat considers his relationship with Grania and their daughter to be his. He freely admits that its failure was his fault, and has regretted it ever since. Von Rached would consider [[spoiler:Sigyn his, if he actually let himself think about her without being forced to.]]
* MysticalPlague: Courtesy of Thorvald. It's a remnant of the disease that wiped out most of the Gifted a thousand years before.
* NeverGetsDrunk: Played with. While it's ''possible'' to get a Donovan drunk, it takes a surprising amount of booze to manage it: the Marwa men attempt to get Pat drunk, and fail utterly. They also aren't totally immune to hangovers, though it takes quite a lot of alcohol to give them one.
* OhCrap: All over the place. Happens in the DMA [[spoiler: when they realize the extent of the terrorism attack, in Tanzania when Kilimanjaro is about to erupt, and again when they realize someone's set it off on purpose.]]
* {{Omniglot}}: [[spoiler:Von Rached]] was one, and the fact that [[spoiler:Lorna becomes one is a sign that there's a bit of him left in her head.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: Lorna and Ratiri become this for Charlese, after [[spoiler:Caleb dies]].
* PersonalizedAfterlife: How the afterlife works in this universe. Von Rached comes to find his to be a terribly dull MundaneAfterlife, because nothing he does or studies or discovers will amount to anything at all.
* PowerIncontinence: Suffered by all the Donovans with the Blank. They're all strong enough that this makes them a real danger to themselves and others.
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Winds up not being necessary, as North America self-quarantines (though considering every place in the Northern Hemisphere is potentially infected, there wouldn't be any point even if someone wanted to).
* RunningGag: Prior to the Donovans' arrival in Tanzania, everyone says that it's a terrible idea. Turns out, they're all very right.
* ScaryBlackMan: Though Gavin normally doesn't like exploiting that trope, he's willing to do it to intimidate their captured terrorists. Unfortunately, it works a little too well on one guy, who [[PottyFailure pisses his pants.]]
* ShoutOut: Lorna's BadassBoast to Ashley is a subtle one to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* TheSociopath: Ashley, in spades. [[spoiler:She's willing to kill thousands upon thousands of people if it means she can take out one particular person.]]
* SplitPersonalityTakeover: In a sense. The echo of [[spoiler:Von Rached that was left in Lorna's mind can take over to a point, when she's working with anything medical.]]
* TalkingAnimal: Creature, the fluffy cat the Lady gives to Von Rached, though it takes quite a while for her to actually speak.
* {{Terrakinesis}}: Terrakinetic terrorists cause the [[spoiler:eruption of Kilimanjaro.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: The BigBad was willing to [[spoiler:set off Kilimanjaro, and potentially kill tens of thousands of people, just to kill Lorna.]]
* TheTopicOfCancer: Lorna the Younger's mother, Grania, is in remission.
* UnknownRival: Ashley, the BigBad, is this for Lorna. What baffles Lorna is that Ashley is an incredibly powerful telepath in her own right, but instead of embracing it, she's pissed that there's someone out there stronger than she is.
* VacationEpisode: The Donovans all head to Tanzania, which is no more ready for them than they are for it.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: All of Von Rached's memory-dreams take place during the First World War.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 27,28 (click to see context) :
* CrossCulturalExchange: Because much of Norway was evacuated into Tanzania during the War, there was a fair amount of cultural influence in both directions.
* CrosscastVoices: Though the cat is a female, she sounds like Carson from Downton Abbey.
* CrosscastVoices: Though the cat is a female, she sounds like Carson from Downton Abbey.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
''The Years of M'' is an UrbanFantasy novel by Stevie Barry. It's the fifth book in ''Literature/TheMUniverse''
A tale of recovery both global and personal, told in three parts.
*PLAGUE: [[BigBad Thorvald]] might be dead, but his is a gift that keeps on giving.
*TANZANIA: The Donovan-Duncans head to Tanzania, to meet youngest brother Mick's in-laws. It's exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
*GUARDIAN: The afterlife is not what Von Rached expected. Having nearly everything he could want has led to stultifying boredom, until Earth's chief deity bombs into his life and assigns him a task he is in no way prepared for.
There's a reason 'may you live in interesting times' is meant as a curse.
----
!!This novel provides examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Gavin is this to his gang, and trying to take care of the sick eventually drops him from exhaustion.
* AWorldHalfFull: The world has been badly damaged by the War, but it's on its way to recovery when the plague hits, and hits hard.
* AccidentalMurder: Von Rached didn't actually mean to [[spoiler:kill Sigyn:]] he panicked, grabbed her too hard, and accidentally broke her neck.
* TheAloner: Von Rached is alone in the afterlife, until the Lady gives him a cat.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Lady asks Von Rached several of these — the first being why he kept his first name despite hating it so very much.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Lorna:''' The thing about rules, Ashley, is that good people don't need them. You picked the wrong day to find out why I do.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Von Rached finds the afterlife rather dull. Unfortunately, when events conspire to make his existence more interesting, they also make it far more difficult.
* BigDamnHeroes: The airships, which arrive in time to help [[spoiler:evacuate the area around Kilimanjaro.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth: A common feature of the plague, and generally (though not always) a sign a character is not long for the world.
* BusmansHoliday: Thanks to the [[spoiler:eruption of Kilimanjaro]], many of the Donovans wind up doing variations of their ordinary jobs.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Lorna]] fears that she did. The ResurrectionSickness really doesn't help.
* CrossCulturalExchange: Because much of Norway was evacuated into Tanzania during the War, there was a fair amount of cultural influence in both directions.
* CrosscastVoices: Though the cat is a female, she sounds like Carson from Downton Abbey.
* CultureClash: Mostly averted, thanks to the Donovans brushing up on Tanzanian culture, and Mick's in-laws brushing up on, well, Donovans.
* TheFettered: Lorna is this. The BigBad considers it a form of weakness, though she comes to regret it in a hurry. She shortly discovers that Lorna's self-fettering is a ''very good thing'', because if she became TheUnfettered, she'd be a living nightmare.
A tale of recovery both global and personal, told in three parts.
*PLAGUE: [[BigBad Thorvald]] might be dead, but his is a gift that keeps on giving.
*TANZANIA: The Donovan-Duncans head to Tanzania, to meet youngest brother Mick's in-laws. It's exactly as good an idea as it sounds.
*GUARDIAN: The afterlife is not what Von Rached expected. Having nearly everything he could want has led to stultifying boredom, until Earth's chief deity bombs into his life and assigns him a task he is in no way prepared for.
There's a reason 'may you live in interesting times' is meant as a curse.
----
!!This novel provides examples of:
* AFatherToHisMen: Gavin is this to his gang, and trying to take care of the sick eventually drops him from exhaustion.
* AWorldHalfFull: The world has been badly damaged by the War, but it's on its way to recovery when the plague hits, and hits hard.
* AccidentalMurder: Von Rached didn't actually mean to [[spoiler:kill Sigyn:]] he panicked, grabbed her too hard, and accidentally broke her neck.
* TheAloner: Von Rached is alone in the afterlife, until the Lady gives him a cat.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: The Lady asks Von Rached several of these — the first being why he kept his first name despite hating it so very much.
* BadassBoast:
-->'''Lorna:''' The thing about rules, Ashley, is that good people don't need them. You picked the wrong day to find out why I do.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Von Rached finds the afterlife rather dull. Unfortunately, when events conspire to make his existence more interesting, they also make it far more difficult.
* BigDamnHeroes: The airships, which arrive in time to help [[spoiler:evacuate the area around Kilimanjaro.]]
* BloodFromTheMouth: A common feature of the plague, and generally (though not always) a sign a character is not long for the world.
* BusmansHoliday: Thanks to the [[spoiler:eruption of Kilimanjaro]], many of the Donovans wind up doing variations of their ordinary jobs.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:Lorna]] fears that she did. The ResurrectionSickness really doesn't help.
* CrossCulturalExchange: Because much of Norway was evacuated into Tanzania during the War, there was a fair amount of cultural influence in both directions.
* CrosscastVoices: Though the cat is a female, she sounds like Carson from Downton Abbey.
* CultureClash: Mostly averted, thanks to the Donovans brushing up on Tanzanian culture, and Mick's in-laws brushing up on, well, Donovans.
* TheFettered: Lorna is this. The BigBad considers it a form of weakness, though she comes to regret it in a hurry. She shortly discovers that Lorna's self-fettering is a ''very good thing'', because if she became TheUnfettered, she'd be a living nightmare.
