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When Mary Alice Brannigan comes home to Ohio to restore the Dreamland amusement park, she doesn’t expect to fall in love with a clown. Nor does she expect to find that she’s the newest recruit in the Guardia, an elite team of demon fighters formed centuries before to guard the five... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ethan: returns from war with a bullet pressing on his heart with limited time left to live. finds an equal in love to match his style. being at the park increases his chance of survival.
- Glenda: Ethan's mother and she is in charge of Dreamland
- Weaver: Army Barbie
- Cindy: discovers her new destiny
- Gus: Listens to the track every night to count the demons in captivity in the park
- Joe: Mab's love interest
- Frankie: Delpha's raven
- Oliver: Weaver's work partner
- Guardia: The guardian group that keeps the demons imprisoned at the park
- Ursula: Army Barbies superior
- Ashley: possessed by Tura
- Young Fred: works for Dreamland
- Tura: Mermaid Demon
- Mab: leading female who is a mousy restorer of the park. she has the park as part of her hidden past.
- Vanth: demon
- Ray Brannigan: owner of the park in league with the devil and Mab's only living relative
- Beemer: Weaver's stuffed dragon
- Delpha: fortune teller
- Quentin: Dream Cream regular
- Karl: cheats on his wife
- Drunk Dave: or is it Joe?
- Carl Whack a Mole: runs the Whack a Mole
- Sam: works at Dreamland
- FuFluns: god replaced by Bacchus for god of fun, sent to be with the underworld demons at the park
- Mary Alice: known as Mab
- Delphie: baby surprose
- Kharos: aka devil
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Organizations edit
- Department of Homeland Security: Weaver's employeer
First Sentence edit
Mary Alice Brannigan sat on the roof of the Dreamland carousel at twenty minutes to midnight and considered her work in the light from the lamp on her yellow miner's hat.
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Themes & Symbolism edit
- Overcoming our nature.: Mab learns her work isn't her whole life, when things get destroyed and also when love finally finds her The trickster demon uses his powers for good to stay in the lives of people he loves Demons overcome their own nature by being with humans, or possessing objects loved by humans
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jennifer Crusie (Author)
- Bob Mayer (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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