History Literature / WolvesOfMercyFallsSeries

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The series has a rather... odd explanation for werewolf transformation. Once you're bitten, the transformation into a full-blown wolf is triggered by cold temperatures. (Living in a hot climate to stop this has no effect, since even a sudden blast of air conditioning can kick off the transformation.) But it's not this. In ''Shiver'', one of the characters has not taken well to being bitten, and it is then discovered that perhaps bacterial meningitis could stop the transformation, seeing as breaking out into a fever pre-transformation almost cured one of the characters. So yeah... injecting somebody with bacterial meningitis somehow ''helps'' rather than hinders.

%%* GenkiGirl: Grace's friend Rachel.

** As a child, Grace got dragged out of her backyard swingset and into the woods by a pack of wolves, and it is implied that they were going to ''eat her'' if not for Sam's intervention. She later gets left behind in a locked car and nearly dies of heatstroke.

* WouldHurtAChild: Beck as it turns out [[spoiler: attacked Sam when he was in elementary school, biting him as a wolf as Sam boarded the school bus]].

* {{Rewrite}}: WordOfGod says that the third book was finished, then ''completely rewritten from scratch'' because [[DoingItForTheArt the author wasn't happy with it]]. Some problems resulted.

* FollowTheLeader: For ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', having a similar "angsty teenage girl falls in love with a boy who turns out to have a supernatural secret" plot.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Before finding Sam, Beck lost his wife to cancer. [[spoiler: He then became fixated on Sam due to his SuperNaturalGoldenEyes and attacked him to get the child he never had.]]

* AdultFear:
** As a child, Grace got dragged out of her backyard swingset and into the woods by a pack of wolves, and it is implied that they were going to ''eat her'' if not for Sam's intervention. She later gets left behind in a locked car and nearly dies of heatstroke.
** Sam was attacked by wolves boarding the school bus in suburban Duluth.
** In ''Forever'', Grace's parents are worried sick after their daughter disappears. Then the dead body of one of her friends is found naked in the woods...

* WouldHurtAChild: Beck as it turns out [[spoiler: attacked Sam when he was in elementary school, biting him as a wolf as Sam [[AdultFear boarded the school bus]]]].

* RaisedCatholic: Cole St. Clair is heavily implied to be this, without the title "Catholic" ever being used. He is seen holding a rosary, "Fingers grasping the beads as if the gesture was familiar" and later, an interviewer questions his belief in God, quoting Cole's former role as a choir boy. Given that Cole is now a ''SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll'' poster child, he is very much the lapsed sort.

* DoingInTheWizard: The mechanics for lycanthropy have fairly clear rules but no explanation in ''Shiver'', but in ''Linger'', Cole puts his blood under a microscope and determines that lycanthropy has a physical, if not entirely scientific, cause. [[spoiler: Werewolves transform as an immune response to a toxin, and such transformation can be induced with drugs.]]

** Isabel and Cole in ''Linger''.