History Literature / DaughterOfSmokeAndBone

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:What the Faerers discovered when they went through one world portal too many, and unwittingly brought back with them and who destroyed dozens of linked worlds before the Stelians stopped them at Earth.]]

* EtTuBrute: Madrigal was sold out by her own adopted sister, Chiro, who followed her and then told Thiago what she was doing.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted near the end of the second book, when after [[spoiler:Thiago's AttemptedRape]] Karou's face in particularly is badly marred, including a torn earlobe and the damage stays for quite some time. It's even implied that [[spoiler:Thiago]] targeted her face deliberately so everyone would know what he'd done.

* KilledOffForReal: Any character who is killed and has their soul evanesce before it can be put in a thurible, ruining the ability to resurrect them. [[spoiler:Akiva and Liraz]] learn this the hard way when they manage to bring [[spoiler:Hazael's]] body along for resurrection but didn't know that they needed his soul too.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted near the end of the second book, when after [[spoiler:Thiago's AttemptedRape]] Karou's face in particularly is badly marred, including a torn earlobe and the damage stays for quite some time. It's even implied that [[spoiler:Thiago]] did this deliberately so everyone would know what he'd done.

** Later on her unleashes what seems to more or less be a literal angst nuke that stops a bloodbath from occurring by means of hitting everyone with a wave of despair.

* {{StarCrossed Lovers}}: Akiva and Madrigal. [[spoiler:Also, in a way, Akiva and Karou.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Ziri definitely counts. Even though before his appearance he's already experienced the genocide of his clan and watched his childhood crush get executed, he just gets worse and worse throughout ''Days of Blood and Starlight'', leading up to his ultimate [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: What most human characters think of Karou. See also {{Refuge In Audacity}} below.

* {{Freakiness Shame}}: Among the Chimaera, it is definitely more popular to be High-Human than it is to have an animal head. Possibly the fantasy equivalent of ButNotTooBlack, since the Chimera were once enslaved by the Seraphim. Maybe high-human Chimera, who looked more like angels, were more likely to be promoted to easier tasks and thus considered luckier.

* ElCidPloy: By the end of ''Days of Blood and Starlight'' [[spoiler:Thiago and Ten's bodies are inhabited by the souls of Ziri and Haxaya respectively, since Karou realizes that she needs to keep the appearance that Thiago is still leading them but can't bear to resurrect the actual Thiago, especially given what he was [[AttemptedRape trying to do to her]] right before she killed him]].

* EvilOldFolks: Esther, Karou's pretend grandmother, who combines this with ImmortalityImmorality since she's used her wishes to artificially prolong her life to over 130 years. And when Zuzana accuses her of being someone who would collaborated with the Nazis Esthr simply laughs and replies that ''of course'' she did.

* EvilOldFolks: Esther, Karou's pretend grandmother, who combines this with ImmortalImmorality since she's used her wishes to artificially prolong her life to over 130 years. And when Zuzana accuses her of being someone who would collaborated with the Nazis Esthr simply laughs and replies that ''of course'' she did.

* HappilyEverAfter: Subverted

* {{Horned Humanoid}}: Madrigal

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oh boy, Akiva...

* WeHaveReserves: Joram's feelings towards the Misbegotten, since if they fall he can always just father more. The Chimaera subvert this, since much of their army has already died at least once and been resurrected, with them only managing to somewhat keep up their numbers thanks to Brimstone and later Karou. By the time they go back to Eretz there are only 88 of them active.

* WeHaveReserves: Joram's feelings towards the Misbegotten, since if they fall he can always just father more. The Chimaera subvert this, since much of their army has already died at least once and been resurrected, with them only managing to somewhat keep up their numbers thanks to Brimstone and later Karou.

* AngstNuke: Akiva unleashes a magical one right after [[spoiler:realizing how Jael intends to use him as TheScapegoat]] and breaks every window in the entire city of Astrae (which, given how the city is made of mostly glass, is ''a lot'')

* AngstNuke: Akiva unleashes a magical one right after [[spoiler:realizing how Jael intends to use him as TheScapegoat]] and breaks every window in the entire city (which, given how the city is made of mostly glass, is ''a lot'')