History Literature / DoraWilkSeries

* BiggerOnTheInside: Viola's wagon hides some sort of pocket dimension.

* HeroicSelfDepreciation: In his POV, Witkacy mentions that he had turned in both his car keys and service weapon, because he doesn't trust himself not to kill someone when he's high on drugs.

* CleanupCrew: Played for BlackComedy in short story ''Clean Job After Dirty Job'', where werewolf alpha kills a wannabe-leader when the latter tries to assassinate him and he has to clean up the mess before his wife shows up. The cleanup crew turns out to be CoolOldLady called [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Grandma]], and she leaves the place in better state than it was before the attack.

* TheDreaded: Viola is this for Thorn community, to the point when the usually-decisive and impossibly powerful Council prefers to wait until she leaves and then clean up rather than deal with her.

WordOfGod says that with six books published, series is finished, and that she plans to write several spin-offs (probably also as series of books) with some Dora's sidekicks as main characters. The first, ''Szamański Blues'' (''Shaman Blues''), focused on Witkacy, is slated to be released in fall 2015.

Besides books, Jadowska wrote some short stories about both Dora (narrated by her) and other characters (written in third person). They can be found on [[http://anetajadowska.fan-dom.pl/czytelnia/ author's website]] and will be released, along with other stories, as an anthology called ''Ropuszki'' (''Toadies''), also in fall 2015.

* ActionFashionista: Katia. Either kicking some undead ass, or in despair over Dora's broken nails.

* JerkassGods: Most of Pagan gods, but Badb and Loki take the cake. Both are willing to destroy people's lives and start wars and genocides for the sake of winning a debt. Anubis as well - he kidnaps and mummifies young women because he wants to "have them forever".

* YourVampiresSuck: To ''{{Twilight}}'', in short story ''Wolf In Sheep's Clothing'':
-->'''Dora:''' Hey, you're not planning to shine like Svarovski's crystals?\\
''He turned to face me, very slowly.''\\
'''Roman (vampire master):''' One more comparison to ''Twilight'' and there'll be nothing left when I finish with you.

* {{Satan}}: Split between two characters. Lucifer is a ManOfWealthAndTaste and physical and magical powerhouse who rules {{Hell}}, but essentially CoolOldMan for Dora and Miron, his grandson. Sammael, on the other hand, is darker, more hostile and in charge of Hell's department of punishments.

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* TitleDrop: In ''No Innocents At War'' has Bjorn drop the title.

* ScarsAreForever: Bjorn had his face scarred in an attack that wiped out Olaf's previous pack and it's implied that the scar will never disappear, giving him a massive chip on the shoulder when it comes to his looks.

** Dora herself interrogates a witness to [[spoiler:coup d'etat in Hell]] in a dream vision of the future. It's unsure, however, how he ''czart'' she talked with can remember the conversation later.

** Titles of second and third book are shout outs, to ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'' and [[Music/{{ABBA}} Abba's song]]. ''Exorcisms of Theodora Wilk'', planned title for book five, is, of course, ShoutOut to Film/TheExorcismofEmilyRose, in Poland released as ''Exorcisms of Emily Rose''.

* SequelHook: At the end of both ''Gods Must Be Crazy'' and ''Winner Takes It All''.

* RedOniBlueOni: Miron and Joshua respectively. The former is hard-head and has mostly offensive magic, while the latter prefers negotiation to combat and has gifts mostly centered around healing.

* MagicMusic: The boy half of the elven twins Dora meets uses music to make normal people to stay away from them, but compel Dora to come.

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Played straight with Miron, but not with Joshua, despite the fact that both are 350 years old. Justified in Joshua's case - if angel sleep with woman who's fertile, the chance of her getting pregnant is roughly one hundred percent. Joshua would be bound to marry her, and he doesn't want to settle down yet.

* WingedHumanoid: Both Joshua and Miron can become this, manifesting wings out of thin air, [[spoiler:after their Triumvirate bond.]]

* WhoNeedsEnemies: Teresa and Dora cooperate, and Teresa seems to be doing it only because [[HypercompetentSidekick it would benefit Gajusz]]... Until it would not. It turns out she's a raging vampire feminist who wants women to be more actively involved in vampire politics, so her plan is to entangle Dora deep enough in the case that she'll have no choice. So far, mixed results.
* WickedCultured: Inverted. Raphael acts petty, rude and unfair, to the shock of other angels. They expect someone in his position (archangel, don't forget) to hold himself in more dignified manner.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: First three books play this with Dora and Miron.
* WindmillPolitical: The Muggle case in ''Soul Thief''. The murdered woman was member of RealLife right-wing organization and the fact that her case was not resolved after a day (!) is used by her so-called friends to claim that "ruling party doesn't care for citizens who are not this party's electorate".

* GuardianAngel: Joshua becomes one for Dora after he saves her live and gains [[GodMode Glory State]] in the process. It's mostly formal arrangement than anything else, as both end up saving each other just as often.

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Long-lived beings with [[TheEmpath empathic]] powers, who DetectEvil and form [[PsychicLink mental bonds]] between close family members (although it seems it's more about emotional closeness than how much DNA they share). Also: much stronger and more resistant than normal humans, and much better-looking. If a person considers an angel his/her guardian and believes this very strongly, the angel becomes said person's Guardian, able to sense the ward's psychical state and location no matter where they are (and which world). There are different kinds of angels (let's not go into that...) and only some of them have wings. More powerful ones are equipped with extra powers or skills, as well as ability to Manifest, which is when they are super-powerful, super-resistant, [[PowerGlows shine]] with [[HolyHandGrenade holy light]] and banish all that is unholy with their mere existence. As it's God who grants them powers, even a plain vanilla angel can have Glory State or wings, [[spoiler: like Joshua]].

* BiTheWay: Dora.

* ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: In the beginning, Dora don't want to change anything between her and Miron (they're friends at the time), but catches herself on thoughts like this sometimes.

* AerithAndBob: The series' naming conventions are mixed so throughly it's hard to say what comes from where. There are Polish names (Dora, Anita, Gajusz), foreign (Varg, Joshua, Katia), biblical (Lucifer, Baal, Jezebel) and some that seem to be completely made up (Faoiliarna, Laoisie), all existing alongside each other.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: at the end of ''Winner Takes It All'' Trio sets off to help with some unspecified vampire problem.

* AccidentalPun: Meta example with pyr. In-universe, pyr is powerful fire demon, but as Polish gramatic rules go, she-pyr is "pyra"... which is also regional Polish name for potato.