Miserere: An Autumn Tale

Miserere: An Autumn Tale is a dark fantasy novel by Teresa Frohock. In the Woerld, they keep endless guard to prevent Hell from escaping to attack Earth. But Catarina has instead made a deal with a devil and is going to unleash them. Her captive brother Lucian takes a chance to escape, and has to rescue a foundling -- a character brought from Earth -- by magic he is forbidden to use, which sets the opposing forces against him as well.

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Tropes used in Miserere: An Autumn Tale include:

• All Myths Are True: Any religion can hold off the demons.
• Bearer of Bad News: Raechel tells Lucian, and has him tell Lindsey.
• Blood Magic: Names written in blood are especially powerful.
• Cain and Abel: Lucian and Catarina.
• Charm Person: Catarina gains a voice that causes this.
• Children Are Innocent: One character warns against trusting this trope.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Catarina inflicts it.
• Cool Sword: Don't steal their swords. It doesn't work for you.
• Damsel in Distress
• Deal with the Devil: Catarina has struck one
• Dude in Distress: Lucian
• Dreaming of Things to Come: Most people in Woerld can't dream. If you dream, it is prophetic.
• Due to the Dead: Rachael does it for Lucian's sake, not the dead woman's.
• Evil Is Deathly Cold: Catarina's amulet
• Evil Uncle: Lucian and Catarina's back story
• Familiar: Cerebus.
• A Friend in Need: Lucian to Lindsey
• Glad To Be Alive Kiss: They remember their past in time for it to stop.
• Go On Without Me
• Green-Eyed Monster: Catarina
• The Hedge of Thorns: The Rosa's purpose.
• Herald: A priest sends Lucian on his escape.
• Human Sacrifice: Catarina's plan.
• I Know Your True Name: Part of the magic
• It's All About Me: Catarina
• It Was a Gift
• Light'Em Up: The light spell
• Light Is Good: Only good guys can cast the light spell.
• Like a Son to Me: What John had said to Lucian when he was convicted.
• Love Triangle: A sister and lover toward Lucian -- because Catarina insisted on it.
• Magic Feather: Lucian explains that Lindsey is the source of the power, not the Psalter, which he merely gave her to help her focus.
• Mordor: The Barren
• Naive Newcomer: Lindsey
• Our Ghosts Are Different
• Parental Substitute: Lindsey explicitly contrasts Lucian's pride in her with her own father.
• Peaceful in Death: Rachael thinks on the aversion.
• Power of Love: Matthew's ghost tells Lucian that God's power, based on love, is stronger.
• The Promise: Lucian's, to his sister.
• Protective Charm: Lucian tells Lindsey that the Psalter is this.
• Protectorate: Catarina to Lucian. This is a problem.
• Rule of Three: Lucian denies Catarina three times.
• Scars Are Forever: Lucian's limp
• So Proud of You: Lindsey picks this up when he tells her she's Katharos.
• Tears of Blood: Katharos shed them on contact with the Fallen
• Tears of Fear: Lindsey asks if you're whiney to shed them.
• Tears of Joy: At one point, Lucian think he could shed them.
• Thicker Than Water: An argument Catarina uses on Lucian
• Title Drop
• Trapped in Another World: Everyone who comes through the Veil.
• Unable to Cry: It takes Lucian some time after he kills Catarina.
• The Unfavourite: Lindsey
• When Trees Attack: The Rosa moves.
• You Can't Go Home Again: Characters are brought into the Woerld, but never out.