Genre
Fantasy novel
Setting and Context
Set in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Informative and sanguine
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Alex Stern.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between Alex and the secretive societies when she performs a ritual in the morgue to see the killers of Tara. The secretive societies send a gluma to attack Alex, but she survives.
Climax
The climax comes when Alex applies the coercion magic to compel Blake to obliterate the video recorded while using magic to rape Mercy.
Foreshadowing
Alex’s involvement in ritualistic activities is foreshadowed by her childhood traumatizing experiences when she got raped by a ghost.
Understatement
The power of secretive societies is understated. For instance, the reader learns that leading members of the secretive cult are politicians, Wall Street tycoons and other influential people in society.
Allusions
The story alludes to the dark forces that run the world from behind the scenes using a powerful influence to control the world.
Imagery
Tara's body dead body inside the van and morgue depict sight imagery.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the secretive societies that recruited Alex to work for them sent a gluma to attack her when she performed a ritual in the morgue.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
A gluma is used as a metonymy to refer to a powerful unseen spirit.
Personification
The ghosts are personified.
