Internet Jerk: Adam is an inversion he's really quite personable on the internet, but in real life is a different story.Goth: From the first line of chapter one: 'Georgia's going through a 'goth' phase.'.

Description in the Mirror: An unusual example as it occurs six chapters into the book, not at the beginning.Blessed with Suck: Something is wrong with the off switch on Antonio's telepathy.Big Damn Heroes: Referenced by Dillon at least once, then acted out by Sekemoto and her crew of agents right before Prince Mallen snaps Rain's neck.Big Brother Bully: As much as he'd like to see himself as an Aloof Older Brother with a sprinkling of Big Brother Instinct, this is what Adam qualifies as.Battle in the Center of the Mind: Played with – though no one is outright possessed, a recurring theme throughout the first book is characters dealing with magical mental blocks imposed on them, grinding any actions the blocker doesn't want to halt and finding ways around them.Badass Normal: Most of GPIA, though Agent Yukiko Sekemoto deserves an honourable mention.One thing leads to another and her best friend gets kidnapped by fairies. She befriends a girl who can fly, her telepath cousin and a ginger gargoyle and ends up heading to the Alterworld, a parallel dimension about which she knows nothing. Intrigued, she signs up and unwittingly sets the ball rolling for more involvement with the supernatural community (no, not that one) than she's ever had in her entire life. While browsing her older sister's internet history, she stumbles across a forum for paranormal folks such as herself. More Than Human tells of a fifteen-year-old Emo Teen called Georgia Waratjiry who happens to be a weredingo. Currently only the first book, More Than Human, has been released. The first two novels of the Play to Live series - AlterWorld and The Clan - have been translated into English, and talks are under way to have the rest of the series published on Amazon.An in-progress Young Adult Urban Fantasy series by new novelist Rachel Macwhirter. Rus has been nominated for Start, one of Russia's prestigious literary prizes for the best debut science fiction novel. The five books of the series have created a huge following as more authors followed suit, making LitRPG the latest bestselling Russian genre that merges science fiction, fantasy and gaming conventions. Set in the virtual reality of MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games - his books tell stories of real people who'd become stuck in the game and are forced to follow its rules while preserving their intergrity and fighting to make their new world a better place.

AlterWorld - the first novel of his Play to Live series - made him a bestselling author overnight as critics now credit him with single-handedly creating a new science fiction genre: LitRPG. Rus is a young Russian author whose books took the Russian literary market by storm in 2013.

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