Immortal Consequences

The novel explores the characters’ relationships with their pasts, both before and after their deaths and arrival in purgatory. How are these two types of past framed differently and what are their functions in the novel?

Do you think Irene Manette Bamford’s and Augustine Hughes’s choices to align with the Demien Order are justifiable acts or not? Give your reasons drawing on evidence from the novel.

Analyze the language and imagery of the novel in describing Blackwood Academy to show how this fits into the Dark Academia genre.

The novel is called Immortal Consequences. What do you think these eponymous “consequences” are in the narrative? Are these positive or negative? Who is responsible for them?

This is the first novel in a series. Discuss what you think will happen in the next installment, drawing on examples from the novel to show evidence for your hypothesis.

How do the four trials provide narrative structure and progression? Consider the similarities and differences between the trials and the ways in which they alternate with the school environment.

The novel explores the nature of personality and selfhood. Do you think it argues more that people can change, or that they should accept themselves? Why?

Analyze the ways the novel draws on real examples of totalitarian power to frame the character of Silas and his power system.