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The Divide

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The Divide	comment	The Divide Trilogy is a series of books by Elizabeth Kay chronicling the adventures of English boy Felix Sanders.The Divide (2002): The first book in the trilogy is about Felix, a boy with a fatal heart condition and our protagonist, who is on vacation in Costa Rica with him excited to see the Continental Divide between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. With his parents preoccupied, he runs ahead as fast as he can to see it. However, when he gets there, his condition catches up to him and he collapses. He wakes up to find himself somewhere different entirely and face to face with a griffin (or Brazzle in this world) named Ironclaw. The scene shifts to Betony, a tangle-child (elf), arguing with her big sister who's going to Tiratattle, a faraway city, with her brother. She's told to stay with a family friend for the time they're away, but, on the way, she finds a brittlehorn (unicorn) near death who tells her to bring news to his tribe. This eventually leads to Felix and Betony meeting and continuing their adventure to find a way home and maybe a cure for Felix's condition, as well as getting to the bottom of the bad medicine that's been going around.Back to the Divide (2005): After getting back from the other world with a healthy heart, Felix is enjoying his summer holiday, when there's a knock at the door that turns out to be Snakeweed, an antagonist from the first book, who turns his parents to stone. With nowhere else to turn, Felix makes his way to the nearest Divide to seek help. This story introduces several new beings and characters while continuing the quest to stop Snakeweed from taking over the world.Jinx on the Divide (2006): After the events of the second story, Betony comes to visit Felix on Earth over to experience the things that aren't in her world (trolleys, movies, amusement parks, etc.). However, before she arrives, Rhino, a bully at Felix's school, goes through his stuff to discover a magic lamp which Felix had picked up sometime during the second book containing a brandee (djinn) that he had promised to turn human with science so he could be free. The angry brandee kidnaps Rhino and holds him for ransom. Felix must now go with Betony back across the Divide to find a way to get Rhino back safely.The stories are fond of following several groups of people at once, shifting among them occasionally, with the multiple groups crossing paths multiple times. The story is told in third person, but in a way that only shows what the current group knows and sees. No more books are planned in the series, the author moving on to other projects.
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The Divide / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The third book and the trilogy as a whole end with the Divide closing forever, with two copies of Felix and Betony on each side. While that doesn't seem that bad, Magic-world Felix will never see his parents again, but knows his heart condition is permanently cured, while Human-world Betony cannot see her recently un-petrified parents.
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The Divide / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Divide / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Two examples from the third book, the first being a box that stores knowledge and corrupts it. The second is subverted with Snakeweed, as after he wakes up, he finds that he has a disease that will end his life shortly, so he wants to do good.
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The Divide / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
The Divide / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Virtually every mythical creature is known by a different name. Griffins are "brazzles", elves are "Tangle-children", unicorns are "brittlehorns". Oddly enough mundane creatures, such as humans or zebras, are known by the correct name, even though they don't actually exist in the world.
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The Divide / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Snakeweed" - a good name for a snake oil salesman! Agrimony, meanwhile, starts out fairly obnoxious and snotty (although she gets better), and has a name that's one letter away from "acrimony".
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The Divide / int_7d81759e	type	Magical Land
The Divide / int_7d81759e	comment	Magical Land: Complete with elves, griffins, pixies, brownies, unicorns, phoenixes, dragons and talking crocodiles.
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The Divide / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Divide / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Whenever Felix or Rhino say a powerword in the third.
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The Divide / int_938e9bc0	comment	Absent-Minded Professor: Ironclaw. His memory for maths is near-perfect, but his mate needs to remind him of their son's name.
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The Divide / int_ab9311f0	type	Closer to Earth
The Divide / int_ab9311f0	comment	Closer to Earth: Female brazzles are typically historians, rather than mathematicians, which seems to make them better at dealing with reality than the males. Possibly this comes about through the necessity of hard evidence in historical study compared to mathematicians being able and willing to puzzle things out with a claw and some handy dirt, or possibly it's just because the male we see most often is Ironclaw, who could be set on fire while doing maths and probably wouldn't notice.
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The Divide / int_c8bea4ec	type	My Species Doth Protest Too Much
The Divide / int_c8bea4ec	comment	My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Grimspite the sinistrom eventually gains free will and decides to become an author instead, and Granitefuzz is a female brazzle who doesn't give a toss about history.
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The Divide / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Divide / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Snakeweed and his cronies.
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The Divide / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
The Divide / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: Betony's parents before the series started; Felix's, during book two.
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The Divide / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Divide / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Snakeweed's failure to test their headache remedy on Tangle-children comes back to bite him quite spectacularly when it nearly kills Agrimony, their planned spokesperson, who neatly torpedoes the entire scam when despite this he goes ahead using her in this role.
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The Divide / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Divide / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: When the divide starts to close for good, Felix grabs Betony so he can take her to his world. When they wake up on the other side, Betony is rightfully pissed. He gets another one in the first book, when he is chided for being an asshole to the people who are trying to help him. Of course, when a griffin tells you to stop being a tool, it's probably a good idea to take it on board.
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The Divide / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
The Divide / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: Felix's conclusion about what would happen if brazzles, for example, started turning up in the human world.
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The Divide / int_ff934825	type	Evil, Inc.
The Divide / int_ff934825	comment	Evil, Inc.: Global Panaceas.
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