* AssPull: That the war with the Red Court was always going to happen, starting it early was in fact a good thing, and it coming from Shiro pretty out of the blue can come off as a cheap hand wave to relieve Harry and Susan of the responsibility of their actions in Literature/GravePeril.
* HarsherInHindsight: Harry at one point, remarking on Thomas's strained relations with his father Lord Raith, sarcastically compares Raith to Creator/BillCosby for his fathering skills (in this book published in 2003). Over a decade later, it seems Lord Raith (a wealthy, successful, long-lived SerialRapist) has much more in common with Bill Cosby than we knew back then...
** Harry states that he can't really blame Marcone for building his own power base and becoming a criminal in order to protect one child, and might have even done the same thing himself. Come books like ''Changes'' and ''Battle Ground''...
** Either this or HilariousInHindsight, depending on your view: Pretty much ''absolutely everything'' from the first page of ''Changes'' onwards only happens, directly or indirectly, because Molly gave Harry the idea to have bondage sex with Susan.
* HilariousInHindsight: When Thomas shows up to the duel, he's wearing a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' shirt. This is funny enough on its own, as he ''is'' a vampire. But fast forward to the production of the audiobook, which is narrated by Creator/JamesMarsters, who played Spike in ''Buffy''. Making it an unintentional ActorAllusion.
* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler: Shiro]]. From what we've seen, he would have trivialized ''every'' fight his teammates had across the series.