Persistence of Memory (Den of Shadows)

Persistance of Memory is the tenth novel by American teen author Amelia Atwater -Rhodes and is the fifth novel in the Den of Shadows. Published on December.
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Inspired by Your Browsing History. Looking for More Great Reads? Download our Spring Fiction Sampler Now. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices. Read it Forward Read it first. Sarah just happens to meet Christopher and Nissa, Nikolas's siblings, in school right before she finally finds Nikolas. Cool and Unusual Punishment: In Shattered Mirror , after Dominique finds out Sarah was having contact with vampires, she restricts her magic and threatens to take it away entirely. Jessica is described to actually be quite attractive, but everyone avoids her due to her origins.

The cover of Midnight Predator. It's probably supposed to be Turquoise standing in front of the entrance to Midnight, but it's described completely differently in the book. Not to mention that Turquoise appears to be naked. We have no comment on that. This applies to the cover of Shattered Mirror as well, albeit to a much lesser extent. It's probably supposed to be a drawing that Nikolas gave to Sarah. The only problem is that in the actual drawing, the two people were standing back to back, not side by side. Jessica's becoming a vampire allowed Caryn and Aubrey to more effectively heal her.

Most vampire hunters feel this way about their abilities in one way or another.

Because she was bonded to Shevaun through Adjila's magic , she was presumed to be insane. Dark and Troubled Past: We see a good bit of Risika's, and we hear about Turquoise's. Dark Is Not Evil: She's not on the dark side, but being around it has made her forget. Daywalking Vampire Death by Genre Savviness: Jessica gets turned into a vampire a form of dying due to her being so Genre Savvy that she released books accurately chronicling the lives of vampires without their permission.

Deceased Parents Are the Best: The series is fond of this trope. Risika, Jessica, and Turquoise all have both parents dead, Sarah's father is dead , and Erin's mother is dead. The only living parents we ever see are Dominique and Erin's father. Inverted then subverted in the transition from In the Forests of the Night to Demon in my View ; at first, it seems like defictionalization in reverse so it's fictionalization?

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For Turquoise, it was the death of her family. Did Not Die That Way: Sarah and Adia always believed that a vampire had killed their father. It was actually Dominique. In the latter book, it's revealed that that was completely Dominique's fault. Jessica writes a book that makes vampires look bad, not even knowing that the content of the book was real Jessica gets one in Demon in my View.

Does This Remind You of Anything? Considering that Atwater-Rhodes herself is gay, this is very likely. Do Not Call Me "Paul": See Only Known by Their Nickname below. Dropped a Bridge on Him: Anne's death was required by the plot of Demon in my View , but her means of death had almost nothing to do with it. Rachel, Aubrey, and Dominique all qualify. In the Forests of the Night is the only book in the series told in first person. Earn Your Happy Ending: One of the themes of In the Forests of the Night is how much Risika's life improves when she finally stands up for herself and fights Aubrey.

Sarah, and presumably other Vida witches, are shown to keep weapons everywhere. Literally, everywhere where people won't be suspicious, she has weapons. Sassy gave Erin some of his blood, allowing her to change into a hyena, in order to save her life while Shevaun's mind was breaking down. Aubrey made Jessica a vampire so that Caryn could heal her more effectively. Also happens at the end of Shattered Mirror to Sarah. Turquoise and Ravyn never manage to kill Jeshickah by the end of Midnight Predator. Demon in my View ends with Jessica turned into a vampire While not what Jessica's mother thought, going unborn for two decades in a vampiric womb made Jessica more Siete's child than the child of either of her parents.

Her mother gave her up because she couldn't take the reminder of that portion of her life. All of the books begin with a poem. The title of the story is often taken from that poem, as in In the Forests of the Night and Demon in my View. Even Evil Has Standards: Jaguar is reluctant to beat his slaves or even command them to harshly. Of course, there is some question as to whether or not Jaguar counts as evil. Yes, he was running Midnight, which is basically a command center for the slave trade, but he is much less harsh than other slave owners, and he ends up helping Turquoise more than he harms her.

There's also the fact that New Mayhem, a city for vampires, doesn't allow the slave trade. There's a surprisingly small amount of death in these books. Aubrey does this right after he kills Risika's tiger. Presumably the reason Jaguar allows the slave trade in Midnight despite not really liking it. One of the criticisms that the series receives is that its characters are all carbon copies of each other. In particular, this criticism applies to the similarities between Aubrey, Christopher, Jaguar, and Zane from the Kiesha'ra series.

It probably doesn't help that Aubrey and Jaguar are somewhat underdeveloped , making superficial similarities seem much larger. Sarah is a blond, Book Dumb , Ordinary High-School Student who spends her spare time hunting vampires and falling in love with them. Any of this sound familiar? Failure Is the Only Option: You'd think that since the books are so short, this wouldn't be a problem, but if not for this trope, Midnight Predator would be even shorter. Witches give them to anyone who sees their powers. Witches blood is intoxicating to vampires, as Sarah learns the hard way.

Some vampires are addicted to it, like Olivia. Aubrey, for Jessica, and possibly the other way around. The only characters given last names are members of different lines. Very frequent, especially in Midnight Predator. It's also done in Midnight Predator several times to go to Catherine's childhood. The symbol of vampires is a black rose. Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Sarah and Adia respectively.

See Early-Bird Cameo above. Forgot I Could Fly: In some books, like Demon in my View and Shattered Mirror , vampires don't shape shift at all, even in situations where it would make a lot of sense to. Friend to All Living Things: SingleEarth Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: In the Forests of the Night is about Risika gradually accepting her place in the world as a vampire.

Sarah falls in love with a vampire and rebels against her family to keep this romance. Turns out, so did Dominique. Jessica is one of the best examples there is. Having written almost 20 novels about the vampire world, she knows more about it than some actual vampires. Siete in Demon in my View. He never shows up and is only mentioned in Jessica's thoughts, but ends up having a pretty big impact on the plot anyway. Erin has some hints of Shevaun's memories because of the way that they're linked to each other, such as how they're both good at foreign languages.

Jessica's stories come from Siete, whose memories she gained because her mother was kept pregnant with her for twenty years due to his magic.

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In Promises to Keep , Jay's attempt to free Pet's mind leads to the elemental bonded to her starting a war with Leona, causing horrible "natural disasters" and nasty side-effects to every being bonded to Leona read: Good Is Not Nice: Every single protagonist the series has ever had, with the possible exception of Erin. Good Is Not Soft: Gray and Grey Morality: Ironically enough, some of the other books don't have this morality.

Gray And White Morality: Risika is definitely good, but Aubrey is more of an Anti-Villain. The same thing applies to Turquoise and Jaguar in Midnight Predator , although it's zigzagged somewhat in that Lord Daryl and probably Jeshickah really are evil. This could also apply to Dominique's backstory that we get in All Just Glass. Apparently, although no one ever gives a reason why. Persistence of Memory ends with Erin becoming a hyena shapeshifter with Sassy, apparently doing nothing but roaming around and having a good time with him. All her problems were solved, and she doesn't appear to have a whole lot of difficulties.

They're not technically married, but Shevaun and Adjila sure do act like it. Basically, the point of Single Earth is to ask this to everyone else.

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The Smoke Line has them. Aubrey and Kaleo do this. All Just Glass basically features a bunch of protagonists trying to kill each other. The only major character who isn't a protagonist is Dominique, and even she's more neutral than evil. Turquoise and Risika have it. Caryn almost does one in Demon in my View , but Aubrey decides not to kill her. Jay starts out as comic relief, but he quickly sheds this image.

Sarah attends one with Christopher. It doesn't end well for anyone. For some reason, witches never use any weapons more advanced than knives or swords. This is especially annoying in Shattered Mirror when Sarah invades a house that she knows is filled with vampires for the purpose of getting a vampire alone and stabbing it. As opposed to, you know, just going in and shooting everything that moves. This also applies in Midnight Predator. The narration says that concealing a weapon in Midnight would be impossible, but there was never any attempt to check for weapons, and it would be hilariously easy to just hide a gun and shoot Jeshickah the first time anyone sees her.

Particularly since without a weapon, there's not really much they can do to kill her.


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Despite being part of Single Earth , an organization working to stop witches and vampires from hunting each other, she still gives medical support to the witches who hunt vampires. Really, everyone who appears in Shattered Mirror and All Just Glass act hypocritical at one point or another. I Am a Monster: Christopher struggles with this. Nissa does too, to a lesser extent. I Am Not My Mother: Sarah feels this way, and Adia does too, to a lesser extent. Neither of them state it outright.

Dominique's internal justification for killing her husband. I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Risika comes to really resent Ather, even if it's mostly subconscious. Adia uses this in All Just Glass to get away from a vampire who was talking to her about Sarah's whereabouts. Very powerfully done with Siete towards Jessica's mother. He'd offered to turn her for years, and it's clear he was in love with her, but he backed off when she married. However, when an accident left her widowed, pregnant, and desperate, he agreed to turn her when she asked. He also didn't seek revenge on her or Jessica after she found a way to turn back.

I Will Find You: It's been the Vida line's mission to find and kill Nikolas for two hundred years! And he was in the same town as them the entire time! And by the end of All Just Glass , he's still not dead! Shattered Mirror and All Just Glass , the only two books in the series to be closely interconnected, both have titles that reference glass. Nikolas in Shattered Mirror. He's aware that Sarah is trying to kill him and knows where he lives, yet he does nothing about this.

Or, to cite a much bigger example, Turquoise and Ravyn in the beginning of Midnight Predator. They go into Midnight planning to kill Jeshickah. Yet, they go in without a weapon because they think it will be detected. If I Wanted You Dead On Sarah's first meeting with Nikolas, he simply carves his name into her arm instead of killing her.

All vampires have it.

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According to Word of God , many of the vampires the author didn't specify who are bisexual due to their immortality. One of the times that Shevaun took over Erin, she tried to cut off Erin's long hair, due to Shevaun having shorter hair.


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This resulted in some pretty bad cuts on Erin's neck. Erin cut her hair to shoulder length and never wore it longer. Witches rely on this a lot to kill vampires.

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It also applies to Jessica and Aubrey in Demon in my View , until Jessica gets turned into a vampire as well. See a pattern yet? The pattern plays yet again in Persistence of Memory ; Erin and Sassy's romance is interspecies until Erin becomes a hyena shapeshifter. Lord Daryl and Jeshickah. Aubrey could qualify, although he's more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. In a very extreme example, Aubrey goes from being the villain in In the Forests of the Night to being one of the two protagonists in Demon in my View.

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