YMMV / Wraith Knight

• Even Better Sequel: Fans of the series generally agree Wraith Lord is better than the first novel with stronger characterization and storytelling.
• Genius Bonus: At one point, Jacob says, "In my day we did not make a wasteland and call it peace." Which is a reference to The Tacitus.
• One True Threesome: Serah, Regina, and Jacob end up together. But not without issues.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • The Lakelord crosses this whenthreatens to turn over Jacob to the Empress despite the fact he's broken the siege on his castle as well as done everything to keep him from being executed. He also turns on his nephew, niece, and Regina despite their own efforts to help him. He shouts that he's going to turn Regina over, naked, to be the concubine of the Crown Prince. That Serah and Thomas will be married against their will as well as serve as hostages. Also, that he's going to turn over Jacob to be a trophy for the Empire to cart around in parades. If they disagree, he promises to kill them all. Jacob responds by saying that this isn't even the fifth time he's heard a man threaten his relatives with rape and execution while calling himself righteous.
  "I will offer hostages, beg, bribe, blackmail or steal to keep my position. If you have to marry some noble lord, Serah, so be it. If you have to marry a noble daughter, Thomas, it will be done. If I must clap you in chains, Regina, naked and mind-fucked for the Empress to give to her son, then I’ll do that too. I am the Lakelord and I am not to be dismissed!”
  • Fel Hellsword and Thermic Redhand jump over this when you discover they're attempting to start a Race War in Kerifas in order to use the resulting bloodshed to kill everyone in the Northern Wastelands.
  • The Nine Heroes' leader lose any sympathy they might have generated from modern audiences when it's revealed that Morwen has reinstituted slavery and sends enemies of her regime to die in forced labor camps in the Ashlands.

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