Tragic backstory
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Broader terms: General tropes
A Little Life
Series:
Genres:
Contemporary fictionTropes:
Bury your gays, Everyone is gay, Found family, Friends to lovers, Priests are pedophiles, Straight with an exception, Tragic backstoryCharacters:
Time Periods:
Information AgePlaces:
New York CityFinal Girls
by Riley Sager
Series:
Tropes:
Betrayal, Camping murder spree, Final girl, Killer in plain sight, Killing the Survivors, Manipulative bastard, Murdered in the forest, Spree Killer, Tragic backstoryCharacters:
Character(s) with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Characters in their 20s, Cisgender woman main character(s), Detective, Final girlTime Periods:
Information AgeHarrow the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir
Series:
The Locked TombTropes:
Amnesia, Dysfunctional family, Everyone is gay, Found family, God is just a person, Men loving men, Tragic backstory, Unreliable narrator, Women loving womenTime Periods:
Long-Term FutureGideon the Ninth
by Tamsyn Muir