History Creator / MalgorzataMusierowicz

* PunBasedTitle: ''Szósta klepka'' (on an idiom), ''Noelka'' (on the protagonist's name and the fact it's ChristmasEpisode), ''Kalamburka'' ("kalambur" is Polish for "pun"), ''Wnuczka do orzechów'' (another idiom).

* PlayfulPursuit:
** When Natalia hails a cab in ''Nutria i Nerwus'', the driver assumes it's this trope, but upon learning it isn't, he eagerly steps on it and helps Natalia escape her stalker, cause it's just like in the movies.
** ''Opium w rosole'' has a complicated example: Lelujka and Kreska are playing chase while Maciek watches and [[GreenEyedMonster seethes]]. But while Lelujka is in love, Kreska just thinks of him as a friend, and neither of them knew they were being watched.
** ''Technomagia i smoki'' has a less happy example with a bit character who ''hires prostitutes'' for a bit of a sport (both running and their regular fare, probably), because his job is terribly stressful and that's how he relaxes.

* {{Fainting}}: Happens to Gabriela several times in ''Dziecko piątku'', to [[{{Foreshadowing}} subtly tell us]] [[spoiler: she's pregnant]]. Pyza faints in ''Imieniny'' when Ignaś gets lost.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''Opium w rosole'' takes place, and was written, in a very ugly moment of history. Hence multiple tiny pokes at the censors. In fact, censorship ''did'' end up cutting direct references to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Poland martial law]].

* PeripheryDemographic: ''Opium w rosole, along with ever-changing single selection from ''Jeżycjada'', are an [[UsefulNotes/SchoolStudyMedia obligatory read]] in Polish schools. This means at least one student out of entire class ends up reading the whole thing, or at least books prior to ''Opium'', just to piece together who is who.
* PlayfulPursuit: When Natalia hails a cab in ''Nutria i Nerwus'', the driver assumes it's this trope, but upon learning it isn't, he eagerly steps on it and helps Natalia escape her stalker, cause it's just like in the movies. ** Several books earlier, in ''Opium w rosole'' Lelujka and Kreska are playing chase while Maciek watches and [[GreenEyedMonster seethes]]. But while Lelujka is in love, Kreska just thinks of him as a friend, and neither of them knew they were being watched.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Each book focuses on one girl and her romantic troubles, but they're all more or less friends, characters from previous books get B-plots in later ones, everyone has family and so on, and so the cast keeps growing.

* AuthorTract: It is generally agreed Musierowicz's books started to suffer from quickly increasing amounts of tract from the turn of millennium onward. This leads to situations like pre-teen characters sounding like jaded, middle-aged people or rambling old folks, preaching in the most heavy-handed way Musierowicz's own believes. ''Czarna Polewka'' is usually cited as [[JumpingTheShark the turning point]], where preaching overwhelmed every other aspect of the story. What makes it so glaring is the fact the early books of ''Jeżycjada'' are completely free from such antics and it was one of their main selling points.

* {{Bridezilla}}: In ''Noelka'', Ida becomes rather exacting and tyrannizes her little sisters over the veil, the shoes, the food, the fact that heating stopped working... To be fair, stuff really is not 100% ideally perfect (heating won't work!), but Ida, dear? Take a deep breath, okay?
* TheBully: The [[KidsAreCruel Lisiecki brothers]], to a dog, until Ida smacks some sense into them. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, later on they go back to bullying. This time smaller kids, including Konrad, for their money]].

* DisappearedDad: Ignacy Borejko, briefly, in ''Opium w rosole''. [[spoiler: Janusz Pyziak, permanently]].

* {{Fainting}}: Happens to Gabriela several times in ''Dziecko piątku'', to [[{{Foreshadowing}} subtly tell us]] [[spoiler: she's pregnant]].

* LittleProfessorDialog: Ignacy Grzegorz has a tendency to do this. He sings ''[[GratuitousLatin Gaudeamus Igitur]]'' in bath.

* PlayfulPursuit: When Natalia hails a cab in ''Nutria i Nerwus'', the driver assumes it's this trope, but upon learning it isn't, he eagerly steps on it and helps Natalia escape her stalker, cause it's just like in the movies. Several books earlier, in ''Opium w rosole'' Lelujka and Kreska are playing chase while Maciek watches and [[GreenEyedMonster seethes]]. But while Lelujka is in love, Kreska just thinks of him as a friend, and neither of them knew they were being watched.

* ShrinkingViolet: Both Natalia and Aurelia go through this phase.

** Similar with [[TheQuietOne Bebe Bitner]] and her diva mom Józefina.

* AdultFear: Once Gabriela becomes a mother, her greatest fear is being unable to help her children in distress.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Both Janusz Pyziak and Baltona are certainly popular with the ladies. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Gabriela, in the first case RealityEnsues and their marriage doesn't work.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ''Opium w rosole'' takes place, and was written, in a very ugly moment of history. Hence multiple tiny pokes at the censors.

** Well, except of the StayInTheKitchen tendencies, that were always big theme of the books: every single adult female character that isn't a devoted mother or simply has a job is potrayed in the worst possible way.

* AuthorTract: It is generally agreed Musierowicz's books started to have quickly increasing amounts of tract from the turn of millennium onward. This leads to situations like pre-teen characters sounding like jaded, middle-aged people or rambling old folks, preaching in the most heavy-handed way Musierowicz's own believes. ''Czarna Polewka'' is usually cited as [[JumpingTheShark the turning point]], where preaching overwhelmed every other aspect of the story. What makes it so glaring is the fact the early books of ''Jeżycjada'' are completely free from such antics and it was one of their main selling points.

* ChristmasEpisode: ''Noelka'', with Elka as the {{Protagonist}} and Ida's wedding as the B-plot.

* PutOnABus: The cast is huge, so it happens every now and then, notably to Elka, [[spoiler: her eventual husband]] Tomek, his sister Roma and Robert Rojek [[spoiler: who later comes back as Bella's father in ''Córka Robrojka'']]. [[TropesAreTools Put to use]] regarding the little Bobcio from ''Szósta klepka'' who [[TheBusCameBack turns out to have grown into]] [[spoiler: Patrycja's LoveInterest, Baltona vel Florian]].

** Natalia, the Melancholic, begins as a rather odd, nervous child, then for a long time becomes a FragileFlower

Her best known series of novels is the SliceOfLife ''Jeżycjada'', so named from the place it's (largely) set - Jeżyce, a district of Poznań, [[WriteWhatYouKnow where she used to live herself]]. The stories are [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism idealistic]] and sweet, dealing with young girls friendships and first loves, filled with humour, optimism, romance and [[AltumVidetur Latin quotations]]. Just the thing to curl up with in front of a fireplace - the WordOfGod is, she wrote the books to cheer people up.

* LittleProfessorDialog: Ignacy Grzegorz has a tendency to do this. He sings ''[[AltumVidetur Gaudeamus Igitur]]'' in bath.

* SadistTeacher: Ewa Jedwabińska. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as a JerkassFacade of a [[ControlFreak woman terrified of losing control]], so much that she nearly BecomesTheMask.

* [[SecretlyDying Secretly Very Ill]]: [[spoiler: Mrs. Borejko in ''Kwiat Kalafiora'']]. Thankfully saved by [[OneDegreeOfSeparation Aniela's uncle]], a brilliant surgeon.

* GrewASpine: Cesia spends a good part of her book being ordered about, until she snaps and rebels. By [[{{Hikkikomori}} locking herself up in a tower]] (yes, really a tower. UsefulNotes/ArtNouveau Architecture, isn't it grand?) and refusing to move.

* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:Natalia and Robrojek]], eventually. He first met her as the kid sister of one of his friends.

* {{Bookworm}}: The entire Borejko family. Also, grown up [[ThePhilosopher Tomcio]], Beata and some others.