YMMV / The Magic Trials

• Captain Obvious Reveal: Once the first two Guardians are revealed to be Hunter and Violet, you know that the next two are probably going to be Dimitry and Astrid. You would be right. There's also an "Angel" character mentioned alongside the Four Guardians, who would've no doubt turned out to be Ells if the book wasn't put on hiatus.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: As revealed in the author's notes of Chapter 32, half of the book's readers are from the Philippines according to statistics.
• Obvious Judas:
  • Wendy in 'A Strange New Visitor'. Thinking she's the Chaos spy (which she actually is), her roommates kick her out of their dorm and she pleads for Team NB4 to let her in. Everyone else is skeptical, but Ells is completely oblivious and lets Wendy in, seeing her as a friend who won't cause any harm. Ells finally realizes how shady her whole act is when the two go out to 'patrol for the Chaos spy', which is completely out of character for Wendy.
  • Akia Hotel's reception counter lady. Her uncomforting attempts at kindness, creepy smile and obvious lies should immediately send off red flags.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: Ellstrid for Ells/Astrid and Violitry for Violet/Dimitry. The former name has been mentioned by the author herself and is even listed in the tags for the book.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The book is clearly set in the mid-2010s, demonstrated by Taylor Swift's Shake It Off playing as elevator music, Crystal mentioning the now-defunct musical.ly, and Dimitry and Hunter arguing over Five Nights At Freddys and Minecraft on which is the better video game.