YMMV / Domain

• Anvilicious:
  • In Resurrection, the message hammered down in every twist amounts to "Jewish values = good, Christian fundamentalism = bad, Satanism/existentialism = even worse."
  • Phobos upgrades to a full Kabbalistic mindset, now assuring that human ego is really bad.
• Ass Pull: Enough for its own page, in fact. Every installment of the trilogy could be considered its own universe, as all of them invariably make a Continuity Snarl out of the previous by performing heavy Retcons right and left.
• Base-Breaking Character: Lilith. While some considered her interesting, others found her backstory and goals too cliché and tastelessly executed.
• Contested Sequel:
  • While some liked Resurrection for expanding the universe presented in Domain and daring to go beyond, it also received flak for inflating the story with excessive informative padding, bizarre sexist appeals and a too pretentious plot (which needed some important Retcons from Domain in order to work).
  • The same happened Phobos. Some believed it to be a narrative improvement over Domain, particularly in terms of information, but even those admitted that, with its new crapton of retcons and discontinuities, the book made some plotlines downright incoherent and destroyed the characterization of several characters by changing their personalities right and left. The fact that by this point Alten got openly obssessed about the real life Large Hadron Collider and admitted to change the story to fit it in didn't help either.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Sure, they have saved the world and themselves at the new timelines of Phobos, but now we have got the delightful revelation that Kabbalah is right and the physical universe is actually the malkuth, where every soul will have to explicitly earn their light through suffering by the will of the Abrahamic God. From all non-Kabbalistic points of view, the series is now officially a Cosmic Horror Story.
• Franchise Original Sin: The series had featured heavy religious overtones and Jewish mysticism from the first book, which sometimes became heavy-handed at the second during any of its long tracts about God, Satan and evil in the world. However, most critics agree it was in the third book where Alten's love for Kabbalah really got out of hand.
• Narm:
  • It's easy to slip some unintentional giggles at the expense of Alten's obvious and not too well handed Author Appeal in Resurrection. Many of the sexual interactions between the characters are a bit... overt.
    "Lilith glides around the room, then abruptly stops and stares at her own reflection in the two-way mirror, inches from Jacob and Manny.
    'Who is she, Jacob?' Dominique whispers.
    Lilith suddenly smiles like an enchantress, then slowly lifts her silk top, exposing her tan, grapefruit-sized breasts at the two-way mirror."
  • Merchant being such a negative stereotype of homosexuality Crosses the Line Twice, but the rest of examples in the book are not so lucky: the only other LGBTI characters are an amoral, blackmail-friendly female president and Lilith herself, who is Ambiguously Bi. If one can get past the obvious conservative mindset of the series, it can become perversely funny.
• Older Than They Think: As seen in the Shout Out page, the second book could qualify for a neat Whole-Plot Reference to Go Nagai's Shutendoji OVA, while the trilogy overall contains tons of plot points already made famous by Frank Herbert's Dune.
• Strangled by the Red String: Jacob and Lilith are supposedly madly in love with each other, but it's hard to buy into this when they barely have any conventional romantic interaction before she makes her Face–Heel Turn; if only, her scenes together in the Nexus only imply she has an one-sided crush on him. It reaches Informed Attribute status when Jacobs tells Mick he cannot stop thinking on her, despite we are constantly shown his thoughts and he never, ever thinks about her.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The Spanish translations of Resurrection and Phobos are infamous for being very loose at the best and very shoddy at the worst, doing arbitrary changes in lines and words all the time. It goes to the point that they even obscure a certain plot point by erasing Julian's mention that he is the son of Sophia.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Lilith is supposed to have become basically evil incarnate, but it is hard to buy into this when all the victims of her machinations are horrible people themselves (Quenton is a domestic abuser and rapist, Lucien Mabus is a corrupt, violent womanizer, Virgil is all of the previous and a murderer on top, and the Nephilim are officially rich jerkasses) and especially if one acknowledges that her philosophical tracts about how God Is Evil actually have a point (after all, both she and Alejandro employ existentialist arguments that are very in tune with modern secular sensibilities, not to mention they fit to a T with the real life school of Satanism). Mick stating that her actions are necessary to save the world in the future doesn't help, doubtful as it might be.
  • Both Resurrection and Phobos make a point to show Manny is supposed to be a douchebag because he doesn't want to pursue a tenebrous, potentially fatal and literally Hellish mission to save someone he doesn't even know to be alive and savable (Jacob knows, and is actually in contact with Mick, but he never tries to get Manny in too even although it is later shown that he could, which forces Manny find about it by chance and in the absolute worst possible moment). The fact that he wishes to have his own life and uses his natural abilities to build a career is even openly treated as an egomaniacal crime, and the story capitalizes on an understandable struggle with early sports fame to illustrate why he should not be following his dreams, while Jacob, who spent all their life together callously bullying Manny and breaking him emotionally, barely receives a critique until a brief self-realization at the start of Phobos. But this situation only reaches new highs in said book, as Manny's adoptive father tells him the Biblical story of Esau and Jacob to explain why Manny is in the wrong there - and his recount of the story is about a brother who steals the other's heritage and acts like a jerk to him to no repentance, only for the other to magically forgive him for everything! The final and most spectacular strawman happens right after, when Gene explains Manny's wrong was "complaining that his life was not perfect". Of course, Phobos reveals that the world is actually a twisted cosmic trial and thus it is wrong to harbor even the least bit of ego, so it becomes a moot point; but if by the previous's talk point the reader wasn't convinced that the story was being thoroughly unfair to Manny, he will believe it then.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: As mentioned, Jacob is warned by Mick that he must not change Lilith's fate from his time, but this only happens right after she had finally snapped after so much sexual abuse. In reality, Jacob knew about her situation since they were children, yet did nothing in all those years (despite the Gabriel family had all the means necessary to rescue Lilith) aside from giving her flimsy moral help.