YMMV / Children of the Last Days

• Confirmation Bias: Those who share O'Brien's views tend to be his bigger fans.
• Designated Villain: The doctor in Eclipse Of The Sun, who is painted as a villain for daring to suggest that a child from a conservative Christian family might be being molested (she has a persistent bladder infection, which can be caused by sexual abuse), and revealing that Beth is trying to pass off a different child as her son (furthermore, this is a child who has been reported as missing on national television). Both of these are completely reasonable, moral things to do, but because the doctor is working against the protagonists' interests, she is demonized.
• Moral Event Horizon: Ashley's refusal to believe in his son Nathaniel's innocence when the latter is framed by the government conspiracy. Made even crueler by a flashback, in which, despite their political differences, Ashley promises to stand up for Nathaniel should his views get him in trouble with the government. Instead, simply because of political disagreements, Ashley prefers to believe his own son is a pedophile and a murderer.
• Self-Plagiarism: Several of Nathaniel's articles in Plague Journal, have appeared in Real Life publications, under O'Brien's byline.
• Squick:
  • The dump scene, where the government disposes of the bodies of disabled children it has been experimenting on.
  • Also, when the medicine man has sex with Maya, he suggests that she wake her eight-year-old son, Arrow, so he can watch.
  • Additionally, Pawel's molestation by his great-uncle.
• The Woobie: Rose, Arrow, and Pawel.