Chronicles of Blood and Stone/YMMV

• Cliché Storm: Very much so, but on the other hand...
  • Darker and Edgier: Complete with Gorn!
• Complete Monster: The sorceresses again.
• Designated Hero: Tristan may have elements of the Knight in Shining Armor, but he's definitely not pure.
• Narm
• They Just Didn't Care: While the first book helped establish this universe and its canon in regards to Magic A Is Magic A, the author basically made stuff up as he went as the series wore on. Once we got to Destinies of Blood and Stone, It Got Worse... WAY worse.
• Unfortunate Implications: No, this isn't regarding the gender war (well, that too.) This is regarding how much emphasis the series puts on Royal Blood and said blood's "purity."
  • While the gender war seems to essentially disappear by the third book (by then, almost if not all of the villains are male and there are many good female magic users) the emphasis on blood gets worse. In the third book, it is shown that one can tell by someone's blood signature whether they are likely to turn to the Vigors or Vagaries depending on which way they lean. Essentially, this means blood signatures now show if someone is going to be good or evil.
• Wangst: Tristan, a 29 year old man, does not want to be king and spends + 100 pages whining about it, while acting like a little bitch.
  • Angst? What Angst?: Although little things like being raped tend not to trouble him too much.