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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:From the website of Jaime Zollars]] |
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4 | Greenglass House is a 2014 young adult novel by Kate Milford. HappilyAdopted 12-year-old Milo is home for winter break, and is hoping for a relaxing time with his parents. But when your parents run an old inn, famous for having been a hideout of one of the greatest smugglers of all time, with [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic mysterious stained glass windows]] in every wall, and possible hidden treasure, and then an assorted group of smugglers, scholars, and misfits show up as inn guests, all bets on a quiet holiday are off. |
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6 | Milo meets the inn's cook's daughter for the first time, a girl his age named Meddy, and they make a game of figuring out the guests' secrets. Meddy plays a D&D-like game called Odd Trails, and she and Milo create characters to roleplay as, which also helps Milo get over his shyness and anxiety. |
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8 | Has a direct sequel, Ghosts of Greenglass House, and a spiritual prequel of sorts, The Left-Handed Fate, with another prequel, Bluecrowne, being released in late 2018. |
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11 | !!The books provide examples of the following tropes... |
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13 | [[folder:Greenglass House]] |
14 | * AllThatGlitters: Occurs in the climax; De Cary Vinge, an amateur historian [[spoiler:or rather a customs agent with a grudge]], comes to the inn hoping to find legendary smuggler Doc Holystone's lost treasure. Milo finds the treasure and [[spoiler:it's a tabletop game figurine Doc made for his daughter Addie.]] |
15 | %%* BadassBookworm |
16 | %%* BigFancyHouse: Greenglass House itself |
17 | * ClassyCatBurglar: Clem is this, but played with. She IS a cat burglar, but she's not vampy, she's an athletic, red-haired GenkiGirl. |
18 | * ClosedCircle: [[spoiler:Meddy is tethered to the house, and turns into smoke if she tries to step off the property. The sequel reveals same goes for her father and the surrounding woods.]] |
19 | * DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Meddy, a.k.a. Addie Whitcher, daughter of Doc Holystone.]] |
20 | * FriendlyRivalry: Georgie and Clem. Both are professional thieves that met through their work, but any hostility between them comes off as sisterly ribbing. |
21 | * HappilyAdopted: Milo is an adopted kid of Chinese ethnicity, whose parents are white. Aside from wondering about his birth parents and some feelings of guilt from it, it's mostly a non-issue. |
22 | * InvisibleToNormals: [[spoiler:Meddy can only be seen by people she allows to see her, or already know about her.]] |
23 | * OutlawTown: The book's setting, the city of Nagspeake, is this to a T, with a heaping helping of CityOfAdventure. |
24 | %%* ThievesGuild |
25 | * LoveTriangle: Georgie and Clem both love the same man, Owen. [[spoiler:In the end, Clem wins.]] |
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28 | [[folder:Ghosts of Greenglass House]] |
29 | * ChekhovsGun: Lizzie's burnt stollen loaves. [[spoiler:Mrs. Kirkegrim hid her stolen keys in the dough, then turned up the oven so the loaves would be thrown out and she could collect them in a quick getaway.]] |
30 | * DismantledMacguffin: When Clem and Georgie’s Violet Cross relics go missing, Milo and Meddy find half of them taken apart and hidden in the bathroom. |
31 | * EyeMotifs: The two stories the Waits tell both feature characters with hollow eyes. |
32 | * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Violet Cross didn't go out in a battle on the Skidwrack. She's been living in hiding with her family in Liberty.]] |
33 | * FictionalCountry: It's implied that the town of Nagspeake is its own [[LandofOneCity sovereign state]], somewhere between the United States and Canada. It's definitely not a part of the U.S., as Georgie refers to an American quarter as "foreign currency." |
34 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Clem and Georgie are total fangirls for folk hero outlaw Violet Cross. [[spoiler:They're on the constant brink of fainting when they meet her in person.]] |
35 | * {{Macguffin}}: Violet Cross' derrotero, a mysterious map said to reveal safe passages through the treacherous River Skidwrack. |
36 | * OppositesAttract: Georgie the cat burglar hits it off with Emmett [[spoiler:the customs agent]]. |
37 | * OutlawTown: The Asylum is like an Outlaw Town within the larger Outlaw Town of Nagspeake, in that it provides shelter for criminals on the run. |
38 | * RealAfterAll: [[spoiler:Almost immediately after Milo learns Doc Holystone's ghost is a fake, he manages to summon the real Doc ''and'' the ghostly hobbyhorse from Lucky's story.]] |
39 | * RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Inverted; [[spoiler:Mr. Hakelbarend, Mrs. Kirkegrim and Marzanna are father, mother and child pretending to be acquaintances.]] |
40 | * ScoobyDooHoax: [[spoiler:Turns out the ghost of Doc Holystone was a man trying to trick Milo.]] |
41 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Mrs. Kirkegrim ''is'' a thief, but she didn’t come to Greenglass with violent intentions. She just wanted to steal back her old seafaring equipment, and bestow one to her daughter as an heirloom.]] |
42 | * SoulJar: Exploited; [[spoiler:Milo gets the idea to use Meddy's RPG figurine as one so she can leave the house and see her father.]] |
43 | * SternChase: Mr. Hakelbarend's folktale about Liberty’s patron saint is centred around one. |
44 | * ThatPoorPlant: A dying poinsettia in the parlour is a clue in Milo and Meddy's investigation. [[spoiler:The fact it was healthy the day before makes them realize Mr. Larven faked his own poisoning by dumping copious glasses of spiked punch in the pot.]] |
45 | * TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:Mrs. Kirkegrim, aka infamous thief Cantlebone, aka the supposedly late Violet Cross.]] |
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