But there is a dark side to the novelty: true and persistent danger.
Dark, Western spirits were novelties and viewed as symbols of affluence and taste.
It may not have the novelty of the first Dark Souls, but it is, by most measures, the more pristine and rounded work.
What might have been a novelty act is much darker and sometimes uncomfortable.
Among his creations are 18 to 26 different types of truffles (Grand Marnier, frangelico and passion fruit among them), pavés (espresso, caramel crunch, black currant), solid bars (in milk, dark, special edition dark and bittersweet) and novelty pops.
As the latest recruit into a small elite, and with his clipped dark hair and goatee, Ross was the novelty at the conference.
Even when the novelty of reading in the dark wore off, it came into its own during a longish early-evening car journey.
Novelty condoms, such as glow in the dark condoms, might not protect against pregnancy or STD transmission, but flavored, non-novelty ones will.
Foreigners were still a novelty, the capital city was largely dark for lack of access to electricity, and GDP per capita was a paltry $1,286.
Toward the end of the second half it got very dark, and the spectators were treated to a novelty in the shape of football by electric light".
