YMMV / The Blood War Trilogy

• Complete Monster:
  • General Vorrul is the brutal warleader of the Grol, dedicated to his own glory and advancement. Vorrul obtains powerful weapons known as O'hra, giving the Grol access to magic for the first time. Vorrul obliterates human cities he comes across, massacring everyone within the last man, women and child who are used for meat, with Vorrul himself happily devouring a dozen human infants as a victory feast. Leading his men to the prized city of Lathah, Vorrul manages to overcome the city where he massacres all left in the walls and attempts to hunt down and murder the survivors, particularly his nemesis, the O'hra wielding human Arrin.
  • Sultae, the secret master of Vorrul, is a powerful Sha'Ree who has grown to believe that any other race beyond the Sha'Ree are an affront to the world. Massacring Sha'Ree for disagreeing and happily torturing others for information, Sultae arms the Grol and other violent races with O'hra, intending to have them wipe out any peaceful race before turning them against each other to complete the genocides. Capturing another Sha'Ree, Sultae tries to force him into being her mate via torture and mental manipulation, intending to stop at nothing to complete her annihilation of all she deems below her.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Kirah and Arrin. Which is prevented by Arrin's death.
• Moral Event Horizon: The warlord of the Grol crosses it when he orders all the human babies of a settlement gathered up and presented to him...for dinner.
  • Sultae crosses it when you discover her reasoning for near-universal genocide is because, well, she was exiled from her people for having a disease. Also, her repeated and brutal torture of both Zahlee as well as rapes of Tyreh.
• Narm: While their romance is quite entertaining, Arrin's heartbroken mental shutdown comes across as this given he is doing so after finding out his lover moved on. Which he never expected her to do in fifteen years of separation. Doubles with Unintentionally Unsympathetic.