YMMV / Spinning Silver

• Angst? What Angst?: Wanda seems awfully cavalier about her father horribly beating her and later burning to death right in front of her. You could argue she's so used to being beaten she doesn't register it as a big deal, but she recounts the latter events in the same Beige Prose she does everything else. That said, her brother Stepon comes across as having some form of a mental disorder, so perhaps it runs in the family.
• Complete Monster: Chernobog is a fiery demon with a ravenous hunger for lives. Chernobog lives inside Tsar Mirnatius and possesses him, forcing him to find people so he could drink up their lives. Chernobog then makes Mirnatius marry Irina so he could taste her Staryk blood, and he agrees to let her live in exchange to capture the Staryk King so he could feast on him forever and force him to allow him into his kingdom. Once there, he begins to devour everything there, planning on consuming all of Lithvas as well once done, all to feed his insatiable appetite.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: Chapters from Stepon's perspective reveal that he has an aversion to loud noises, trouble understanding other people, and a tendency to hyperfocus, suggesting ADD, the autism spectrum, or both.
• Jerkass Woobie: Even if one ignores that 'feeding people to the demonic source of his arcane power' thing; Mirnatius is a rude, hostile, selfish, cynical layabout that neither knows how to run the kingdom he stepped over the bodies of his father and brother to gain nor particularly cares. It is steadily revealed over the course of the book that not only did he not want the throne at all but the fire demon who happily tortures him into compliance and engineered his rise was forced on him before he was born by his own mother. And he is convinced the demon and pretty much everyone else sees him useful at best. Even his legendary vanity was an adopted trait he picked up so that nobody will question where his clothes went when the demon punishes him and burns the clothes.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Though Miryem has a perfectly good Freudian Excuse for why she's so cold-hearted at the beginning of the novel, she comes off as generally very arrogant and petty - a crowning example of this is when she tries to buy her mother some expensive new dresses that her mother has no use for. When her mother refuses to let her buy one, Miryem buys herself two new dresses out of spite and defiance that rubbing her newfound wealth in the other villager's faces is in poor taste. She does care about her family and grows to become a Benevolent Boss to her Staryk servants, but her haughty and confrontational behaviour with everyone else makes her quite unlikeable at times.

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