History YMMV / TheSharingKnife

** Not gonna lie, the malices [[YouWillBeAssimilated are]] [[WalkingWasteland pretty]] [[EldritchAbomination terrifying]]. ''Especially'' the final one from ''Horizon.''

** Not gonna lie, the malices [[YouWillBeAssimilated are]] [[WalkingWasteland pretty]] [[EldritchAbomination terrifying]].

*** And the woman's survival is ''not guaranteed'', since the problem doesn't always come to the attention of a medicine-maker before severe harm's been done to the woman's body.

** In-universe, ectopic pregnancies are this for Dag. Not least because the mandatory treatment boils down to what the Malice at Glassforge did to Fawn--ripping the ground out of the developing fetus, killing it and causing immediate miscarriage.

** In-universe, ectopic pregnancies are this for Dag. Not least because the mandatory treatment boils down to what the Malice at Glassforge did to Fawn.

* NightmareFuel: Not gonna lie, the malices are pretty terrifying. In-universe, ectopic pregnancies are this for Dag.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Dag's thinly-veiled TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Bluefields when one of her brothers asks why Dag would ''possibly'' want to marry ''Fawn'', especially since Dag won't inherit any land -- or, indeed, anything at all -- for marrying her. Also an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome Moment]].
-->'''Dag:''' ''(when asked for three good reasons)'' Only that? Very well. For the courage of her heart, which I saw face down the greatest horrors I know without breaking. For the high and hungry intelligence of her mind, which never stops asking questions, nor thinking about the answers. For the spark of her spirit, which could teach bonfires how to burn. That's three. Enough for going on with. All this is set beside me, and you ask me instead if I want ''dirt''? I do not understand farmers.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the first book, Dag being cornered into revealing his age -- which is [[MayDecemberRomance fifty-five years old to Fawn's eighteen years]], making him ''thirty-seven'' years older than her. He is essentially forced into revealing this in front of all of the Bluefields, including Fawn[[note]](She knew he was a widower who was twice her age if not more... just not ''that'' much more)[[/note]]. In the middle of dinner. [[SpitTake While Fawn is taking a drink]]. And to make it worse...
-->''[Fawn] looked up sideways at [Dag] in muffled, possibly, alarm. Or dismay. He hoped it wasn't horror.''
-->''"Papa," she muttered, "is fifty-three."''
-->''All right, a little horror. They would deal with it.''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The climax of the fourth book, when Fawn, her brother and his wife - three farmers lacking any special powers beyond brains - prove generations of Lakewalkers wrong and [[spoiler:take down an advanced malice themselves]].

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming[=/=][[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome]]: Dag's thinly-veiled TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Bluefields when one of her brothers asks why Dag would ''possibly'' want to marry ''Fawn'', especially since Dag won't inherit any land -- or, indeed, anything at all -- for marrying her.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the first book, Dag being cornered into revealing his age -- which is [[MayDecemberRomance fifty-five years old to Fawn's eighteen years]], making him ''thirty-seven'' years older than her. He is essentially forced into revealing this in front of all of the Bluefields, including Fawn. In the middle of dinner. [[SpitTake While Fawn is taking a drink]]. And to make it worse...

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the first book, Dag being cornered into revealing his age -- which is fifty-five years old, to Fawn's eighteen years, making him ''thirty-seven'' years older than her. He is essentially forced into revealing this in front of all of the Bluefields, including Fawn. In the middle of dinner. [[SpitTake While Fawn is taking a drink]]. And to make it worse...
-->''[Fawn] looked up sideways at him in muffled, possibly, alarm. Or dismay. He hoped it wasn't horror.''
-->''"Papa," [Fawn] muttered, "is fifty-three."''

-->'''Dag:''' ''(when asked for three good reasons)'' For the courage of her heart, which I saw face down the greatest horrors I know without breaking. For the high and hungry intelligence of her mind, which never stops asking questions, nor thinking about the answers. For the spark of her spirit, which could teach bonfires how to burn. That's three. Enough for going on with. All this is set beside me, and you ask me instead if I want ''dirt''? I do not understand farmers.