Jumping the shark

Must not jump the shark with book.
Must not jump the shark with book.
Must not jump the shark with book.

Must not pull a Bobby’s-in-the-shower-it-was-all-a-dream-St.Elsewhere-is-really-inside-the-head-of-an-autistic-kid-thing.

Ways I could make this novel jump the shark:

Darth Vader is really Kartik’s father.
Gemma becomes greeter at Victorian equivalent of Wal-Mart, wears badge that says, “You can enter the realms–ask me how!”
Winterlands Creatures On Ice!
Circe ends up counseling teens at a realms magic rehab center–“Friends don’t let friends become power-hungry, vampiric, magic stealers who kill people. And drive.”
Nightwing really a drag queen.
Pippa–the Search for a Victorian Pussycat Doll. “Doncha wish your girlfriend was a corpse like me? Doncha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me? Doncha? Doncha?”
Gemma and McCleethy face off in OrderFu slow-motion battle. (Hard to write slow-mo: My…fists…rise…in…fury.)
An adorable pig enters the realms and gets the Winterlands creatures to walk in formation and win the blue ribbon.
The butler did it.
Ann reveals her evil twin sister, Skippy.
Llamas!
French New Wave ending: nothing happens but everybody walks toward a grainy “fin” while smoking.

Must not jump the shark with this book.
Must not jump the shark with this book.
Must not jump the shark with this book.