1 | ->What good is a toy that will wind down? What if you could give a toy a heart? A real heart. One that beat and beat and didn't stop. What ''couldn't'' you do if you could make a toy like that? |
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3 | ''The Toymaker'' is a ''very'' dark children's novel written by Jeremy de Quidt. |
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5 | From the moment that the circus boy, Mathias, takes a small roll of paper from the dying conjuror, his fate is sealed. For on it is the key to a terrifying secret, and there are those who would kill him rather than have it told. |
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7 | Pursued by the sinister Dr. Leiter with his exquisite doll and malevolent dwarf, preyed on by the circus master and his vicious painted wife, Mathias is drawn into a relentless nightmare. A nightmare that will lead him to the Toymaker, and to a knife as cruel as frost. |
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10 | !!This novel contains examples of: |
11 | * ActionGirl: Katta tends to leap into action no matter the cost to herself and others, which [[spoiler:ends up getting her captured and made into the Duchess]]. |
12 | * AntagonistTitle: The Toymaker is one of the main villains of the book, and is the titular character. |
13 | * AntiHero: Katta is a tough girl with no mercy for those that cross her, and is gung-ho about getting into troublesome situations. |
14 | * BigBadDuumvirate: Dr. Leiter and the Toymaker are the main villains of the story, with Leiter having political schemes while the Toymaker enacts his operations. |
15 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Mathias is saved and Leiter's crimes have been exposed, but the Toymaker and Valtar escape and Katta has been converted into clockwork and goes mad]]. |
16 | * EyeScream: [[spoiler:Katta tries to blind a boy who threw a stone at her years ago]]. |
17 | * FreakOut: [[spoiler:Katta goes mad once she's made into the Duchess]]. |
18 | * HeartTrauma: The Toymaker used sparrows' hearts in his experiments. [[spoiler: Then he moved onto ''human'' hearts]]. |
19 | * IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Katta is treated this way in the finale when [[spoiler:she's forcibly converted into the Duchess]]. |
20 | * ImplacableMan: Valter the [[spoiler:clockwork]] dwarf is unstoppable by conventional means. Justified as [[spoiler:he's not human]]. |
21 | * KarmaHoudini: The Toymaker gets away at the end, and it's implied he and Valter are still out there to perform cruel experiments. |
22 | * KillAndReplace: [[spoiler:This happened to the Duke, who was killed and replaced with a clockwork double]]. |
23 | * PinballProtagonist: Mathias spends much of the book bouncing from character to character and place to place, with little agency of his own. |
24 | * RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:The Duke is made of clockwork; the real one has been dead for years]]. |
25 | * SupportingProtagonist: Mathias spends much of the story being pulled around by other characters and only does one thing of importance in the whole book. |
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