History YMMV / MerryGentry

* HoYay: Surprisingly averted. There's little guy love between the Ravens.
** And not-so-averted as of the end of ''Swallowing Darkness'' and ''Divine Misdemeanors'': [[spoiler: Doyle loves Frost so much that he's willing to give up the kingship to bring him back to life. After he does so, it's acknowledged that they love each other just as much as they love Merry.]] Still no guy-on-guy sex, though.

* BadassDecay: Most of Merry's harem are supposed to be eons old warrior gods and some of them even had pretty cool introduction scenes. In the first book, Doyle shows up and goes OneManArmy on a bunch of [[NightmareFuel slaugh]] and then has a duel with Sholto. Frost started off as a KnifeNut who had the balls to defy the crazy, torture-happy queen by not wearing the crappy clothes she told him to wear. Then they had sex with Merry and turned into whiny emo boy toys. Just for an example of how bad this is, at least one of her harem of badass warrior gods occasionally bustles around the house wearing an apron and offering cookies.

* BrokenBase: Averted. Laurell K. Hamilton never made any pretensions that the series was not meant to be erotica first and foremost.

* BadassDecay: Probably some of the fastest decay in the history of literature. Most of Merry's harem are supposed to be eons old warrior gods and some of them even had pretty cool introduction scenes. In the first book, Doyle shows up and goes OneManArmy on a bunch of [[NightmareFuel slaugh]] and then has a duel with Sholto. Frost started off as a KnifeNut who had the balls to defy the crazy, torture-happy queen by not wearing the crappy clothes she told him to wear. Then they had sex with Merry and turned into whiny emo boy toys. [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck.]]
** Just for an example of how bad this is, at least one of her harem of badass warrior gods occasionally bustles around the house wearing an apron and offering cookies.

* MoralEventHorizon: Taranis gets one of these when [[spoiler: he tries to rape his own niece.]] Or possibly before the events of the first novel, when Taranis realized [[spoiler: he was infertile, and condemned his court to die out with him.]] After [[spoiler: slow genocide on your own people]] what's a little incestuous rape among family members?

** Barinthus' change is explained in ''Divine Misdemeanors'' because of his [[spoiler: [[UnresolvedSexualTension unrequited love]] for Prince Essus, Merry's father. Apparently it's a case of {{love makes you|Crazy}} a {{jerkass}}.]]
* Female example: Maeve and Merry have...an interlude.

* BadassDecay: Probably some of the fastest decay in the history of literature. Most of Merry's harem are supposed to be eons old warrior gods and some of them even had pretty cool introduction scenes. In the first book, Doyle shows up and goes [[OneManArmy One-Man Army]] on a bunch of [[NightmareFuel slaugh]] and then has a duel with Sholto. Frost started off as a KnifeNut who had the balls to defy the crazy, torture-happy queen by not wearing the crappy clothes she told him to wear. Then they had sex with Merry and turned into whiny emo boy toys. [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]].

* GodModeSue: Merry Gentry is the living vessel for the Fairy Mother Goddess.

** Barinthus' change is explained in ''Divine Misdemeanors'' because of his [[spoiler: [[{{UST}} unrequited love]] for Prince Essus, Merry's father. Apparently it's a case of [[LoveMakesYouCrazy love makes you]] a {{jerkass}}.]]
* LesYay: Maeve and Merry have...an interlude.

* CompleteMonster: Cousin Cel and [[spoiler: Taranis, though he's King of the Seelie Court]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Taranis gets one of these when [[spoiler: he attempts to rape his own niece.]] Or possibly before the events of the first novel, when Taranis realized [[spoiler: he was infertile, and condemned his court to die out with him.]] After [[spoiler: slow genocide on your own people]] what's a little incestuous rape among family members?

* CompleteMonster: Most believe that every member of the Unseelie Court is one of these. Merry Gentry tries her best to break the stereotype. Cousin Cel and [[spoiler: Taranis, though he's King of the Seelie Court]] actually fit this trope to a tee.

* BadassDecay: Probably some of the fastest decay in the history of literature. Most of Merry's harem are supposed to be eons old warrior gods and some of them even had pretty cool introduction scenes. In the first book, Doyle shows up and goes [[OneManArmy One-Man Army]] on a bunch of [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel slaugh]] and then has a duel with Sholto. Frost started off as a KnifeNut who had the balls to defy the crazy, torture-happy queen by not wearing the crappy clothes she told him to wear. Then they had sex with Merry and turned into whiny emo boy toys. [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]].

** Barinthus' CharacterDerailment is explained in ''Divine Misdemeanors'' because of his [[spoiler: [[{{UST}} unrequited love]] for Prince Essus, Merry's father. Apparently it's a case of [[LoveMakesYouCrazy love makes you]] a {{jerkass}}.]]