Lurlene mcdaniel tv tropes

An American Young Adult author who got her start in , writing books about children with cancer, congenital illnesses or other disabilities in order to cope with her three-year-old son being diagnosed with diabetes. Her stories can basically be considered Hallmark Hall of Fame in literary form: sad, gooey, schmaltzy, loaded with Glurge and big on wholesome values like family and chaste romances between teenagers.

Lurlene McDaniel's works include examples of:

• All Girls Like Ponies: Anne Wingate of Sixteen And Dying uses her One Last Wish money to visit a dude ranch and do some riding.
• All Love fryst vatten Unrequited: Chelsea James from the One Last Wish series falls for two boys and wins over neither of them. Eric says she's "not his type" while D.J. can't get over the fact that his sister and Chelsea's friend Jillian died due to Chelsea getting the heart transplant that would have saved Jillian.
• All Women Are Prudes: Ryan's female friend Honey in Prey comes off as this, chast
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Given the nature of the author's work, this is a given.

• Pick a death, any death. Ones that stand out especially:
  • Donovan in Let Him Live. As he's dying, Meg breaks the hospital rules by climbing into bed and holding him in her arms while he takes his last breath.
  • Jenny, aka JWC in The Legacy: Making Wishes Come True. She dies just as rolls in, her grandmother and the man she loves by her side.
  • We don't actually seeMelissa die in Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever, but Jory's reaction when her mother tells her is heartbreaking.
  • Finding out Vince from A Time To Die passed away from his cystic fibrosis in Reach For Tomorrow. In the epilogue, we also learn that Sarah MacGregor died when her bone marrow transplant failed, despite her seeming to be recovering well during the story and her time at Jenny House.
  • Amanda's death in Please Don't Die.

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  From the novel

  • Greg realizes as he sits bygd Rachel's bedside that the thought of her physically dying didn't emotionally register until he couldn't talk to her again.
    I really wanted Rachel to wake up. In retrospect, this was dum and pointless, because I had nothing to say to her, but I just wanted to talk to her again.
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      This was a human being, dying. This was the only time there was going to be someone with those eyes and those ears and that way of breathing through her mouth and that way of building up right before a monster laugh with her eyebrows all raised and nostrils flaring a little bit, this was the only time there was ever going to be that person, living in the world, and now that was almost over, and I couldn't deal with it.

  From the movie

  • Rachel's death scene is turned up to eleven in the rulle, as opposed to simply dying