History Literature / TheEnchantmentEmporium

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Gale Boys tend to be coddled (since there's so few of them -- the ratio tends to be about 7:1, almost making them a OneGenderRace), but the belief is any that have an excessive amount of power are guaranteed to become [[InTheBlood sorcerers]]. This leads to a side-plot of Allie trying to find a way to save her brother David, since they're their parents' only two kids, and there's already gossip that he has "all the ability" of the sisters that he ''should'' have had, as well as his own. Given that she can [[spoiler:cow him by looking at him like she wants to [[RuleOfFunny smack him on the nose with a rolled-up paper]], there may be no worry there]].

* OneGenderRace: While boys are born into the family, the combination of KissingCousins and gender-ratio[[note]] At least 7:1 in favor of girls; Allie and David are considered odd because they don't have at least five more sisters... and the fact he was firstborn[[/note]] means they are ''almost'' this, and only the occasional influx of outsiders, like Allie's father, prevent them from dying out completely.

* TheManBehindTheMan: While Allie believes it to be [[spoiler:Stanley K./Samuel Gale]], and Graham is told it's [[spoiler:Jack, Samuel's son]], both end up being informed [[spoiler:it's Jack's ''mother'', using Jack as a beacon to find Samuel in order to get revenge]].

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming of "The [[AlliterativeTitle bit of adjective and noun]]": ''The Enchantment Emporium'', ''The Wild Ways'', ''The Future Falls''.

* AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed: at one point (in the first book), Graham is asked to add some of his blood to a specific bullet, with it being explained as allowing the shot to be more accurate. It's later discussed that it might instead allow the Dragon Lords to find him, in case something goes wrong, and potentially eliminate him.

* OutlivingOnesOfspring: It's mentioned that Dragons (or at least Dragon Lords) will occasionally eat their own eggs; however, they're not really considered 'real' until the egg hatches. Even then, sometimes young Dragon Lords end up eating each other, leaving their parent(s) to carry on. Also, one Dragon Lord expresses the hope that if something happens to [[spoiler:Jack]], his mother would start laying eggs again.

** One of the Aunties takes up with a Leprechaun [[ChangelingTale Changeling]]. No-one makes much of a fuss, since he may be 80-90 years old (see OlderThanTheyLook), to become an Auntie involves menopause, and nobody wants to argue with two magic-slingers.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming of "The [AlliterativeTitle-bit of adjective and noun]": ''The Enchantment Emporium'', ''The Wild Ways'', ''The Future Falls''.

* AssassinateTheAssasin: at one point (in the first book), Graham is asked to add some of his blood to a specific bullet, with it being explained as allowing the shot to be more accurate. It's later discussed that it might instead allow the Dragon Lords to find him, in case something goes wrong, and potentially eliminate him.

* AssasinateTheAssasin: at one point (in the first book), Graham is asked to add some of his blood to a specific bullet, with it being explained as allowing the shot to be more accurate. It's later discussed that it might instead allow the Dragon Lords to find him, in case something goes wrong, and potentially eliminate him.

* BigBad: The Gales are taught that sorcerers end up becoming this, no matter how much they try to justify it. And Allie automatically assumes that whatever ''may'' have killed Auntie Catherine is this, due to how hard it would be to kill her without a fight. And Stanley K. is treated as one, [[RunningGag because he funds and publishes a tabloid]].

* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: The aunties once suggested Allie magic her gay best friend, who she used to be in love with, into loving her back. Allie refused, on the grounds that he wouldn't be Michael anymore if she was mind-controlling him, but it's treated as only mildly bad and never called rape. The same thing happens when [[spoiler:an auntie mind-controls Michael's boyfriend into cheating to make Michael go to Allie's side]]. Allie is angry because Michael's heartbroken, not because [[spoiler:her aunt just raped two people [[note]] boyfriend plus the random construction worker who'd probably have said no if he knew about the sex spell[[/note]]]].

* RuleOfFunny: Allie is worried throughout most of the book that the rest of the family will expect her brother David to eventually get DrunkOnTheDarkSide. But it turns out he's still her brother, because in the middle of a conversation where he ''acts'' like a protective older brother, she feels like swatting him on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. Keep in mind he can shapeshift into a massive elk.

* SerialEscalation: The BigBad is first believed to be [[spoiler:Jack, a teen half-Dragon Lord]]. Then, the Gale decide it's going to be [[spoiler:Jack's uncles, fighting over whether he should be here at all]]. They also are trying to find out what a sorcerer is doing in the town... he's waiting for [[spoiler: Jack's mother, a Dragon Queen, who's coming to take revenge on him for getting her pregnant in the first place]].

* AcceptableTargets: Tabloid publishers