YMMV / Duncton Wood

• Audience-Alienating Premise: These books might be a hard sell even to Xenofiction fans due to moles lacking the widespread appeal of cats, dogs, rabbits, wolves, deer, dragons, unicorns, or gryphons.
• Moral Event Horizon: Mandrake's aforementioned killing of Rebecca's newborns.
  • Later on, Rune will kill Bracken's children, with the exception of Violet, and blame it all on Mandrake.
• Nightmare Fuel: Woe are the youngsters that get attracted to this book by the promise of cute moles, for this is what await them inside: gory violence (in Watership Down levels, by the way), infanticide, parental incest/rape, cannibalism (both out of necessity and pure evil), the Dark Sound, horrible depictions of plague, and so many deaths it's hard to count.
• The Woobie: Many examples throughout the series, including Rebecca, Tryfan, Spindle, and even arguably, Mandrake.