Special Topics in Calamity Physics: Difference between revisions

 

After moving across America for years with her charismatic and intensely educated father as the only constant in her life, Blue van Meer finally gets to spend a solid year in a single town to finish high school. A mysterious teacher, Hannah Schneider, bumps into her and her father while they're shopping before school starts. She strikes up a conversation with them, and soon after invites Blue into the Bluebloods, a group of assorted teens she invites to dinner every weekend. Hannah and her Bluebloods all seem to be harboring some dark secrets. Soon Blue is drawn into intrigues and mysteries that lead her to re-evaluate her father and herself.

* [[Hot Dad]]: Blue's father Gareth is very handsome and charming as well as a serial womanizer.

* [[How We Got Here]]: The book begins with a murder, and spends about two-thirds of its pages building up to how it happened.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Jade's mother leaves her to be raised by servants. Blue's mother dies before the book starts. {{spoiler|Near the end, her father leaves in the middle of the night without a word.}}

* [[Something Only They Would Say]]: A variation: {{spoiler|A few of the reasons of the reasons Blue thinks her dad and Hannah slept together at some point include things like Hannah's use of the simile "like butterflies" in a suspicious context, her fondness for the film ''L'Aventura'', and other things which she describes as "her father's fingerprints".}}

* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Jade is a spoiled brat and often insults Blue, but while drunk tells her that Blue is the only Blueblood she actually really likes.

 

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