Genre
fantasy novel, adventure
Setting and Context
The story is happening in two different worlds. First is our real world and another is invented by the author. The book depicts nowadays of New York city as for the first world, and unreal cities like Idris as for the second.
Narrator and Point of View
Third person narration
Tone and Mood
The book is full of mystics, secrets, fantastic deals and creatures. There are also a lot of deaths, battles. So, the mood in the story is a little dreary, but there is also a romantic line and positive events.
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist is the people of Idris and Valentine is the Antagonist.
Major Conflict
This conflict stretches among all three books of the series and it is a conflict between Idris and Valentine
Climax
The battle with Valentine
Foreshadowing
The story is full of foreshadowing about vampires, demons, other creatures and their world.
Understatement
The theme of death is understated because in the life of such creatures the death happens very often and is treated like usual situation.
Allusions
The story alludes to the Bible and to Catullus poetry
Imagery
See imagery section
Paradox
There are two paradoxes. The first one is that modern time is connected with unreal creations and they live in New York like ordinary people. And the second is that opposite powers and sides of the Idris must unite to win Valentine.
Parallelism
The events of the real and unreal worlds are happening in parallel.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
