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1	* BizarroEpisode: The sixth and final book deviates heavily from the rest of the series, being mostly told from a first-person perspective, and featuring aliens, time travel, and alternate universes.
2	* LesYay: The second book opens with Sparta receiving a massage from another woman.
3	* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Ari Nagy, Sparta's mother, willingly handed her own daughter over to the Free Spirit cult, and unlike her husband Jozsef, she's not sorry. On top of that, she let her daughter believe that the Free Spirit had killed her and Jozsef, resulting in Sparta nearly throwing her life away on a poorly-planned vendetta]].
4	* NightmareFuel: The super-extendable needles from the first book can be this if you're AfraidOfNeedles.
5	* ParanoiaFuel: [[spoiler:Salamander can give people false memories]]...
6	* StrangledByTheRedString: Sparta and Blake's relationship is more told than shown, and relies heavily upon the notion that constantly rescuing someone inevitably results in them falling in love with you.
7	* TearJerker: Kara Antreen's fate at the end of the first book; [[spoiler:She ends up with her memories thoroughly wiped by Sparta]].
8	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
9	** The first three books invest a great deal of time building up the Free Spirit into a major threat... [[spoiler:and then Sparta kills off their leaders ''and'' the Orange Man halfway through the fourth book]].
10	** In the second book, Blake infiltrates the Free Spirit, and meets several of its newest recruits and learns of their backgrounds. Only one of those new recruits appears later.
11	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
12	** Sparta and Blake's hunt for the Free Spirit ends abruptly in the fourth book, and then the series morphs into a CosmicHorrorStory. Most fans seem to agree that the Free Spirit plot was much more interesting.
13	** Each book explores a different planet, its unique colonization challenges, and the political situations that emerge from importing humans there (like Mars' communism, or Ganymede's hotbeds of separatism, or Venus' extreme capitalism.) None of these subplots are ever followed up in subsequent books.

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