History Literature / DoraWilkSeries

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

* {{Badass}}: In. Spares. The entire Trio fits this trope, as well as the Council, vampires and werewolves.
** BadassGrandpa: Lucifer. During the hellish uprising in ''Winner Takes It All'', he almost single-handedly stops rebels' assault.
*** Invoked with all archangels, although we haven't seen Gabriel or Michael in action yet.
** BadassLongcoat: A long, black one is Miron's outfit of choice. For any occasion.
** BadassNormal: Dora's boss in the police. She's capable of keeping in check the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag bunch of cops]] dubbed "Animal Kingdom" by their coworkers and kicking their asses when necessary. ''Dora herself'' call Anita one of "top five women [she] would rather not piss off".
** TookALevelInBadass: Over the course of three books Dora transforms from a regular half-blood northern witch to [[spoiler:quasi-vampire nobility, leader of a werewolf pack, uber-powerful multi-skilled witch with a mental bond to both an angel and a demon]]; Miron, a [[TheDrifter freelancer]] devil who happens to be the boss' grandson becomes a [[spoiler: fire-breathing pyr sharing in the aforementioned mental bond]]; Joshua goes from ShrinkingViolet wingless angel to [[spoiler: a badass GuardianAngel with wings ]]and CoolSword (although the last one was [[ItMakesSenseInContext borrowed]] from ArchangelMichael and returned later). Frankly, the Trio gets new powers and perks OncePerEpisode.
** BadassUnintentional: The Trio didn't really plan on getting so many levels in Badass.
** WorldOfBadass: Yeah, it pretty much comes down to this.

With Dora's six books published, this particular cycle is finished, but the author is planning to create a verse of novel series, with some Dora's sidekicks as main characters. The first of those would be ''Szamański Blues'' (''Literature/ShamanBlues''), focused on Witkacy.

* ArmyOfTheDead: How [[spoiler:Witkacy defeats Viola]]: the ghosts of hunders of people she's killed are pumped up with power and sent to attack her. Their vengeance done, they cross over to the afterlife.

* RedHeadedHero: Dora has dark-red hair.

[[CoitusEnsues Coitus tends to ensue here]], so be warned. Compare and contrast Literature/AnitaBlake in its early stage.

* ImmuneToBullets: Viola laughs at Dora's attempts to shoot her, and for a second, Witkacy even think that Wilk had loaded blanks.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: 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. That's despite the fact that he's one of the most effective policemen in his precinct and Dora trusts him to watch her back implicitly.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Bjorn has troubles believing that Alina would be interested in him as a person, and not just an injured animal.

* ShoutOut: At one point Witkacy asks whether they've beaten the right [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]].

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Dora spends a large chunk of ''No Innocents At War'' dismantling Grizzly's fighting ring under assumption that he's holding Varg. Upon raiding his compound, she finds Varg absent from it, and the entire search has to start anew.

* AdultFear: Bogna is terrified that either her son would inherit her magic gifts or magic would hurt him.
* AllTheOtherReindeer: Bogna was shunned out by her fellow medicine students ever since she turned out to feel comfortable around the dead. It ended, obviously, when she moved on to studying pathology.

* AttemptedRape: Invoked by Dora to catch a serial rapist - she glamours herself to look like his usual type of a victim and goes to his "hunting grounds", then catches him whem he tries to have his way with her.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The perps in ''Toadies''. They [[spoiler:jokingly wished on their ex-lovers to turn into animals that represent them best. To their horror, it turns out that the cauldron they used in their mock sabbath made it work, and just to make matters worse, transformation of muggles is a serious crime.]]

* BiggerOnTheInside: Viola's wagon hides some sort of pocket dimension. Witkacy wonder whether the door is a gate somewhere else or the witch has put up an illusion and the wagon is actually normal-sized.

* CleanupCrew: Played for BlackComedy in ''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.

* DoesNotLikeMagic: Witkacy is still freaked out by magic portal between Toruń and Thorn and is scared of combat magic, in contrast to muggle weaponry.

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* FiveRoundsRapid: Dora empties entire magazine of her pistole into Viola, who turns out to be ImmuneToBullets. Justified, as she doesn't have anything else with her.

* HairTriggerTemper: Szelma was actually sent to therapist to deal with it - she's been challenging much bigger wolves over small matters.
* HappilyAdopted: Szelma is a were-cat adopted into a werewolf clan, but she considers them her family, her father cares for her and her "brothers" are ready to defend her if someone as much as glances at her in unfavourable way.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: 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. That's despite the fact that he's one of the most effective policemen in his station and Dora trusts him to watch her back implicitly.

* NaiveNewcomer: Dora in the first story. Leon nearly has a stroke when he realizes she has no idea she shouldn't enter hell pubs, doesn't know difference between ''czart'' and ''czort''[[note]]The latter are pure-blood hellians, the former are half-bloods and derided for it[[/note]] and acts completely relaxed around him.

* NoodleIncident: Ever since Viola's last visit to Thorn the vampires check their blood bags twice before drinking anything. No more is said on the matter.
* NotMeThisTime: The shady fertility witch Dora suspects of turning people into toads nearly says it word for word, and proves to be correct, even pointing them to the right suspect.
* OneHeadTaller: Eryk notes this with him and Szelma, laughing that she's one of few people who make him feel tall.

* PornStash: The two victims in ''Toadies'' have porn [=DVDs=] and magazines in plain sight. Dora points that it's quite an anachronism in this era, but Witkacy justifies it by noting that their Internet supplier may've blocked porn sites.

* ShoutOut: At one point Witkacy asks whether they've beated the right [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]].

* TakeThat: The introduction has one to ''Literature/TheDoll'', known in Polad as either their best novel or their students' bane, depending on who you ask.

* 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.

* UnstoppableRage: When Braga's worse side takes better of her, she demolishes her husband's bar within minutes.

* YouAreNotAlone: Dora tells it to Bogna when she's freaking out about magic, promising to introduce her to more "part-time" magicals.

'''Roman (vampire master):''' One more comparison to ''Twilight'' and there'll be nothing left when I finish with you.

* PetTheDog: Gabriel gets his moment in ''Gods Must Be Crazy''. Up until then he's been shown as self-centered old man who's all politics, willing to sacrifice his own grandson and closest relative for the sake of his own political gain. Then, when Joshua [[spoiler:is overcome with fever]] Gabriel arrives at Trio's home, clearly worried and scared about angel's state. Up from then, we see more of him, and he isn't that bad after all.

** Due to events of ''Gods Must Be Crazy'', [[spoiler:Miron]] turns into pyr, although his control is limited, at least for some time.
* {{Pornomancer}}: Dora, as part fertility witch, needs sex in order to survive ([[spoiler: until the end of ''Soul Thief'']]). Her talents make satisfying that need easy.

* PowerGivesYouWings: Both Joshua and Miron can manifest wings out of thin air [[spoiler:after their Triumvirate bond is formed.]]

* PutOnABus: Witkacy. He's the side character in ''Soul Thief'', appears briefly in ''Gods Must Be Crazy'', but hasn't been seen since then, despite being referred to.
** They same for Dora's coworkers in the police. After ''Soul Thief'' they are theoretically still living and working, but they weren't even mentioned since then.
** For Witkacy and Bogna, TheBusCameBack in ''Exorcisms of Dora Wilk'', where the former becomes an important B-character and the latter is {{Herald}}.
** [[spoiler: Miron]] leaves in 1/3 of ''All Stays In The Family''.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The group of cops nicknamed "Animal Kingdom" consists of witch with psychopathic tendencies (Dora), a perpetually-depressed junkie (Witkacy), an alpha male (Hare, currently in psychiatric hospital), a boorish drunk (Nowakowski) and two newbies nobody else wanted. They stay in service because they're really good at the job, but stay on the same team because nobody else would take them.
* ReallyGetsAround: Mocked hilariously in ''Winner Takes It All''. While the only people in the entire Hexalogy we see Dora making out with are [[spoiler:Miron]] and one sea demigod, everybody in Thorn believes she has slept with nearly everybody important, including Lucifer, Baal, two Archangels, local vampire lord and Angel Of Death. That's mostly because of her [[MagneticHero magneticness]] and how easily she makes friends, even with the most feared members of magical establishment. It goes even further in ''All Stays In The Family'', when magicals believe she sleeps with all Tri-City leaders.

** Baal is known as the "Crimson Prince", 'crimson' as in the color of blood.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Defied. While most demons have red eyes, or red ring around irises, it's simply natural color of their species.

* RelationshipUpgrade: In book 3, Dora and Miron go from JustFriends to OfficialCouple.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Underplayed. In the beginning of ''Gods Must Be Crazy'' Dora notices that her one-night lover looks suspiciously similar to Miron and that Miron's one-night lover looks like she could be her sister.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Aleksander, AxCrazy and creepy demon, is an Asper, creature with ability to control reptiles. He also has, like all Aspers, long fangs with absolutely painful poison.
* {{Satan}}: Split between two characters. Lucifer is a ManOfWealthAndTaste and physical and magical powerhouse who rules {{Hell}}, but essentially CoolOldGuy for Dora and Miron, his grandson. Sammael, on the other hand, is darker, more hostile and in charge of Hell's department of punishments.
* ScarsAreForever: Bjorn had his face scarred and disfigured in an attack that wiped out Olaf's previous pack and it's implied that the scars will never disappear, giving him a massive chip on the shoulder when it comes to his looks.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Joshua insists there's nothing between him and Laoise, and Miron keeps on mocking him about this. The angel certainly cares for her, though, which might not mean much, seeing how he's the resident NiceGuy.

** The books have loads of references to modern pop culture depiction of werewolves and vampires, such as ''Twilight'' (look below), ''Interview With a Vampire'' along with the movie adaptation and various metal bands (The Trio loves those).
** Hell is divided into nine circles (on the other hand, ever since Dante's ''Inferno'' Hells just plain have circles), various biblical characters show up and Gabriel's Annunciation is referred to more than once.

** Pathologist Bogna states once that the case she works on is straight from ''Series/TheXFiles'' and that the only candidates for Mulder and Scully are Witkacy and Dora.

* SlaveToPR: Baal is respected as Hell Prince mostly because he has a reputation of "murderous son-of-a-bitch", meaning that if he openly admitted his JerkWithAHeartOfGold personality, he'd be knifed within days.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Most of Dora's perceived attractiveness comes from her fertility-witch magic. When [[spoiler:Jezebel]] charms her, multiplying the effect, she's attacked twice on the way home by would-be rapists.
** Not to mention that when she converses with her male friends who are in relationships, their girlfriends start suspecting that she's flirting.
* SmellsSexy: Dora for werewolves and vampires. And (considering their manners), she's quite unhappy about the fact and tries her hardest to hide it.

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: After being Dora's staunch ally for first five books, [[spoiler:Katarzyna herself]] suddenly starts taking issue with her mixed blood in book six, to Dora's surprise. To be honest, it's not as much Dora's mixed blood as the fact that she doesn't try to hide it anymore, which the sudden heel considers disgusting.

** MotherNature visit her in a dream at one point to give her a mission.

* TheEmpath: Seems to be standard feature for angels. [[spoiler: Trio gains it after they form a mental bond, although it only works between the three of them]].
* TheNicknamer: Dora likes doling out nicknames for people, both friends and foe. Gabriel is Gabe, Miron is Imp, Karnowski is Mr No Personal Hygiene (NPH for short), Gajusz is Your Bitingness and Aleksander is Asper, to give just a few examples.

* TheyDo: [[ForegoneConclusion As it was expected]], Dora and Miron do.

* TokenTrio: Supernatural variety; Dora's a female witch, Miron's devil and Joshua's angel.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Dora and Miron has it in spades for the first three books. Finally they do, to [[TheEmpath Joshua]]'s relief.

* 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.

* 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".

* WomanScorned: Jezebel. After [[spoiler:Joshua's father]] hadn't fell for her, she used her magic to take revenge on his entire family. The fact that he wasn't interested in her fuels her entire plot arc.

->''"So let's sum up today's attractions: corpse, more corpses and meeting with a family in mourning.''([[{{Beat}} beat]]) ''Well, well, you know how to have fun, Your Bitingness." ''

* HypercompetentSidekick: Teresa is this to Gajusz. She's been NumberTwo to another vampire for years before Gajusz picked her up. She's capable of translating his "do this, now!" into coherent orders, she's able to organize everything in the nest while he's only playing inter-nest politics, she's able to smooth his fits of rage into relative calmness, she's able to aid him even when he clearly doesn't want help... It's insinuated that Gajusz would fall long ago if not for Teresa.

* IKnowYourTrueName: The main difference between demons and other hellians is that demons are bound to serve a person who uses their full name, which is why they use nicknames in day-to-day lives. Usually, only demon's sire knows his/her true name, but in some cases he can give it to another person, such as Baal telling As' full name to Dora.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Inverted with angels - they're so insanely fertile that a single sexual encounter, even with contraceptives, is nigh-sure to end up with the woman getting pregnant. Dora, as fertility witch, is able to tune it down, though.
* IndifferentBeauty: Dora doesn't care very much about her beauty, never really dressing up to show it. Justified in that if she'd dress up to show how HotWitch she is, men would be probably too charmed by her magic to be of any use.

* InsistentTerminology: Dora is a ''witch'' [[note]]Actually untranslatable play of words, as Polish ''wiedźma'' and ''czarownica'' are more or less synonymous in English (Dora is the former)[[/note]]. The difference is that witch is born with magic, while ''czarownica'' must learn witchcraft from the scratch and will never be as good at it as witch.
* InstantSeduction: Dora can do this, being fertility witch. One of the short stories show that that's how she got her "batteries" when she still had to power herself up with sex to live. Once she's free to abandon this habit, she stops.
* InsultToRocks: Dora, upon meeting goddess [[JerkassGod Badb]] again:
--> ''Maybe she was raised by wolves, although suspecting this would be unfair for those animals.''

-->'''Roman:''' ''Miss Wilk, I advise you to be careful. For vampires, speaking of blood is like a foreplay. Asking about what kind of blood they like is like asking whether they prefer vanilla or BDSM.''
* InterspeciesRomance: Dora's a witch and Miron's devil. In the background, ''czart'' (half-demon) Leon romances wiccan (in-story it's something of a nature witch). More cases like this are implied [[spoiler: when The Trio discovers a prison-like facility where Raphael keeps half-angel-half-magical kids]] in ''Winner Takes It All''.
* IntroOnlyPointOfView: The prologue of ''No Innocents At War'' is the only passage in the entire series not narrated by Dora - in fact, it's Varg's POV, describing in present tense the events leading to [[spoiler:his capture by Bruno's wolves]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Nowakowski. His exploits on crime scenes must be seen to be believed - he drinks victims' alcohol and casually takes underwear from women's drawers - he's absolutely sexist and he has the tendency to ass-grab any woman in vicinity.
* 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.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Baal, although so far only Dora and Joshua can see this.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: A meta example - on the cover of ''No Innocents At War'', Dora is wielding a katana, while in-story, her sword is described as having European-style blade.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Implied to be true for angels: they are so absurdly fertile, they often have child after first sex, and nothing helps them. Defied, though, with Dora, who can magically reduce her chances of having a child to zero.

* MadProphet: The priest Dora goes to meet, father Anzelm, is certainly some sanity short of normalcy, but he knows about who will die and how, although that's little help, given the "mad" part.[[spoiler: He was made this way by Ibrahim to retrieve demon seals from the church they were buried in.]]

* MagneticHero: Dora seems to be able to make friends with almost everybody - the more feared in magical community, the more likely they'll be on first name basis by the end of the book. It's most notable with Baal - he's introduced as deadly fallen god, merciless and scary, but at the end of ''Winner Takes It All'' he even proposes to sleep with Dora. Lampshaded in the same book (check {{Pornomancer}} below) when everyone thinks she sleeps with all those non-people.
* 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 sleeps 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.

* MeaningfulName: Wilk, Polish for Wolf. [[spoiler:Dora's great...grandma was werewolf and Dora has some genes, as proven in ''Gods Must Be Crazy'']]. Szelma as well - ''szelma'' is Polish word for someone akin to trickster.
* MotherNature: The Goddess, who (despite there being many, many gods) is the supreme deity of magicals and as such is worshiped - especially by witches.
* MrFanservice: Miron. Big, sexy, well-built, beautiful, HotAsHell. Quite often shows up [[ShirtlessScene wearing no shirt]] and at home (which he shares with Dora and Joshua) he's often trouserless, too.
** Joshua also qualifies as MrFanservice, since he looks like "that guy from the garage band that every fangirl wants".

* MugglesDoItBetter: Part of the reason supernaturals stay hidden in another world is that nowadays, with criminology and forensic medicine, discovering them would be a piece of cake for anyone with DNA-sequencing equipment. Also, Dora often prefers her Beretta to her spells (it's faster) and muggle cops have no problem with capturing supernatural criminals (although this is partially because said criminal was wise enough not to turn into wolf in front of the muggles).
* MushroomSamba: After [[spoiler: Aleksander's mooks drug her before the rite]], Dora has absurdly trippy sequence which would be darkly comical if it wasn't for the context of situation.

* NeverSleepAgain: Soul Thief attacks Dora when she sleeps. Also, [[spoiler:Albin's]] death charms start working when vampire is asleep, making him/her go out into deadly daylight.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Series is often criticized for it, and rightfully. Stuck in the basement with AxCrazy psycho and no way to call help? Make currently not-imprisoned [[spoiler:angel]] form a mental bond with [[spoiler:heroine]] and gain badass powers to come and save [[spoiler:her]]. Pack of dangerous werewolves who has to be reasoned with? Surprise! [[spoiler:Dora's great-grandma was friend with feared werewolf goddess and werewolves honor that.]] Being stuck in the burning building? Funny, Miron just got this [[spoiler:fire powers]]... Preparing for a duel with centuries-old archangel? This [[spoiler:mental bond from book 2]] gave [[spoiler:Dora]] angelic super-strenght. Dying? Give the same [[spoiler:angel]] extremely rare healing powers!
* NiceGuy: Joshua is niceness personified and the kindest person in any given group, the kind that works for free in problem children schools, lets you cry in his arms and is always there for you, whatever happens. Of course, BewareTheNiceOnes, for he's absolutely terrifying when Manifesting.

* NoodleIncident: Miron's past is riddled with those. He once spent a few decades with vampires. Apparently, he also published his poetry and became English classic under a fake surname.

* NotHimself: Once played with, once played straight. Archangels were a bit surprised when [[spoiler:Raphael]] started to hate half-bloods and magicals, but as it begun during Inquisition times, [[GenreBlind they never thought there was anything wrong]] since he's always been antisocial and had no love for non-angels. Turns out [[spoiler:he was possessed all along]].

* OddCouple: Joshua and Miron before Dora moves in. One is angel and grandson of ArchangelGabriel, who's "destined" to become important political figure in Heaven one day, broke because his grandpa don't want to give him money (because Joshua don't want to be "destined") and is ''terrible'' with woman. Another is happy-go-lucky devil, grandson of Lucifer and something of a womanizer, who drowns his grandpa's checks in a ball aquarium to show Luc he's independent. They met when Miron sneaked into Eden and Luc convinced Gabriel to let them be friends, as only Miron matches Joshua's noble status.

** As, like most demons, goes by a nickname, as knowing demon's true name gives one control over them.
* 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 Manifest or have wings, [[spoiler: like Joshua]].

* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Most of the paranormal creatures - magicals - comes from Slavic mythology, so we're treated to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strzyga strigas]], szyszymoras[[note]]read it: shi-shi-mor-ah[[/note]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusalka rusalkas]] and other creatures that didn't look at all humanlike in the original legends. Here, however, they can all pass for humans easily, though some need to hide tiny details like pointy ears or extra gills. They can interbreed and chidren inherit some of the genes from both sides.

->''"So let's sum up today's attractions: corpse, more corpses and meeting with family in mourning.''
-> ([[{{Beat}} beat]])
-> ''Well, well, you know how to have fun, Your Bitingness." ''

The story centers on Theodora "Dora" Wilk, living a double life as a police officer in Toruń and succubus-like [[WitchSpecies witch]] in its magical counterpart, Thorn. While using her powers to aid her during investigations, she tries to keep herself away from magical FantasyKitchenSink world. The magical world, however, comes to her, as the Council governing Thorn asks her to investigate missing and dead magical creatures. Aided by a [[HotAsHell devil Miron]] and his [[HeterosexualLifePartners friend]], [[OddCouple angel]] Joshua, she sets off to find so-called "Soul Thief", at the same time solving a murder case in Muggle world. But with world like Thorn, that's just the tip of the iceberg...

* ''Złodziej Dusz'' (''Soul Thief'') - Dora, still a police officer at the time, must solve a political HotPotato case - an elderly activist of a very religious RealLife organization dies, apparently murdered, and her so-called friends decide to milk it for all the political worth. At the same time, the Council, Thorn's ruling body, requests Dora to solve mystery of SerialKiller who's killed or kidnapped about a dozen paranormal beings - the titular Soul Thief.
* ''Bogowie Muszą Być Szaleni'' (''Gods Must Be Crazy'') - Dora, Miron and Joshua move in to their new house in Thorn to start a new career as private investigators when the repercussions of ''Soul Thief'' strike. Also, Norse god Loki begins to mess up and his ArchEnemy [[CreepyGood Badb]] chooses Dora as her [[TheChampion champion]] to stop him, ArchangelRaphael ''really'' dislikes Joshua and sends an AxeCrazy she-killer and ex-witch to get rid of him and the ghost of Dora's greatgrand...grandma shows up and is ''not happy''.
* ''Zwycięzca Bierze Wszystko'' (''Winner Takes It All'') - as the conflict between Trio and Raphael reaches its peak, so do Hell's internal disagreements. TheGrimReaper shows up, as well as [[CainAndAbelAndSeth a missing character]], ex-lover and lots of kids. FantasticRacism ensues.
* ''Wszystko Zostaje w Rodzinie'' (''All Stays In The Family'') - vampires start committing mass suicides in Gdańsk's coven and Dora's friends ask her to come and help. Under the nose of local vampire king, who's not very happy about it. On top of that, she-wolves of local pack try to have her murdered, Baal starts acting funny and Miron proclaims that he "needs more space".
* ''Egzorcyzmy Dory Wilk'' (''Exorcisms of Dora Wilk'') - Dora's {{Muggle}} friend calls for her help when dead girls are being found, with odd cuts and glowing symbols of DarkMagic on their bodies. The case quickly turns out to be something much worse and Dora had to face psychopathic magically-empowered serial killer, a demon that decided to make her body as a home and byzantine politics of Hell, while at the same time trying to untangle the mess that is Baal's sudden declaration from the last book.
* ''Na Wojnie Nie Ma Niewinnych'' (''No Innocents At War'') - The local werewolf alpha suddenly starts to aggressively push for war between him and Dora and her pack. Something more seems to be abound as the werewolf goddess fails to answer the calls of her favorite granddaughter and FantasticRacism boils just under the surface when everybody wants to start war at Dora's behalf.
* ''Ropuszki'' (''Toadies'') - A short story anthology, collecting both stories from [[http://anetajadowska.fan-dom.pl/czytelnia/ author's website]] as well as previously-unpublished ones, presented from perspective of both Dora and other characters.

** [[spoiler:Albin]], presiding over Conclave (vampire government) finds out that nobody likes him the hard way.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Double subverted in ''All Stays In The Family''. Dora considers getting to [[spoiler:Albin's]] house by the way of air vents, but she quickly finds out that nobody in her team would fit in them. Szelma, however, does, although only in her cat form.
* AccidentalPun: Meta example with pyr. In-universe, pyr is powerful fire demon, but as Polish grammatic rules go, a she-pyr is "pyra"... which is also regional Polish name for a potato.
* ActionGirl: Dora, of course, as a half-blood Northern Witch (battle magic skills) and ex-policewoman with kickboxing training.
** Generally most of female characters with more than two lines in-story qualify as Action Girls, either by virtue of having magical powers or as police officers.
* ActionHero: Miron, since he's two-metres tall devil [[spoiler: with fire powers]].
* AerithAndBob: The series' naming conventions are mixed so thoroughly 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, Laoise), all existing alongside each other.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Dora has this problem with she-vampires.

* ArchangelGabriel: One of secondary characters in the book and grandfather to Joshua. His main focus seems to be on angelic politics and personal gain. Kind of a {{Jerkass}} in the first book, but later he gets a PetTheDog moment.
* ArchangelMichael: Leader of the Archangel Council (Heaven's ruling body), doesn't show up until the end of ''Gods Must Be Crazy''. Himself, Gabriel and Lucipher are [[spoiler: connected by the same Triumvirate mental bond Trio forms later]]. Dora describes his appearance as [[UncannyValley "too perfect to seem human"]].

** Aleksander is one hell of a murderous psycho who mostly breaks people for the fun of it - or at least, that's the image he cultivates.
* BackToBackBadasses: A quarduple version at the end of ''Exorcisms of Dora Wilk'', when Dora, Miron, Joshua and As fight back to back against hordes of [[spoiler:Ibrahim's supporters]].
* {{Badass}}: In. Spares. The entire Trio fits this trope, as well as Council, vampires and werewolves.
** BadassGrandpa: Lucifer. During a hellish uprising in ''Winner Takes It All'' he almost single-handedly stops rebels' assault.
*** Invoked with archangels, although we haven't seen Gabriel or Michael in action yet.

** BadassNormal: Dora's boss in the police. She's capable of keeping in check the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag bunch of cops]] dubbed "Animal Kingdom" by they coworkers and kicking their asses when necessary. ''Dora herself'' call Anita one of "top five women she would rather not piss off".
** TookALevelInBadass: In the course of three books Dora transformed from regular half-blood northern witch to [[spoiler:quasi-vampire landlady, leader of a werewolf pack, uber-powerful multi-skilled witch who's got a mental bond with both an angel and a demon]], Miron, a [[TheDrifter freelancer]] devil who happens to be boss' grandson became a [[spoiler: fire-breathing pyr sharing in the aforementioned mental bond]] and Joshua went from ShrinkingViolet wingless angel to [[spoiler: badass GuardianAngel with wings ]]and CoolSword (although the last one was [[ItMakesSenseInContext borrowed]] from ArchangelMichael and returned later). Frankly, the Trio gets new powers and perks OncePerEpisode.

* BerserkButton: Don't try to harm any member of Dora's "extended family". Just don't.
** Similarly, try harming Dora and Miron and Baal will stop at nothing to get you.

* BetaCouple: The romance of Leon and a young wiccan Sonia goes on for some books, culminating with Leon divorcing [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Braga]].

* BigGood: Judeo-Christianic God Almighty and magical world's Goddess (aka Mother Nature). They both care about the world and every single inhabitant of it and are willing to help out as much as they can. "Closer to Earth" (sarcasm intended) we get Archangels Michael and Uriel - even if they can't stop some things because of ancient laws, they care about more than just themselves and promise to get to the truth and deliver justice if Trio wouldn't be able to.

* [[BeastMan Beast Men]]: Werewolves, although more psychically than physically.

** [[spoiler:Katarzyna]] is half-witch, half-fury known for their mastery over two elements who believes that half-bloods who don't hide their mixed heritage are disgusting.
** Raphael considers InterspeciesRomance to be akin to bestiality, while he himself has half-blood son. [[spoiler:Justified, as the bigoted behavior comes from a demon which possessed him after he had already had this child.]]
* BrainlessBeauty: Dora's cover when she goes to illegal werebeast fights is Roman's DumbBlonde "sex toy", complete with AbsoluteCleavage and way too much make-up. She calls the whole thing humiliating, even though no one recognizes her.
* BreakInThreat: Rare instance when it's the good guys who do it. In ''All Stays In The Family'', Dora and her werewolf commando break in [[spoiler:Albin's]] house, find the nesting place (Doraverse vampires sleep during day) and leave... [[TastesLikeDiabetes super-cute illusions]]. The message behind this is clear: they could stake [[spoiler:Albin]] and [[spoiler: he]] couldn't do anything about it.
** Made even clearer later, when [[{{Shapeshifter}} Szelma]] sneaks in on Dora's behalf and leave invitation to Gajusz. They were in the same room and she left the message when [[spoiler: he]] didn't look. As she put it, that scared the vampire good, as it didn't occur to [[spoiler:him]] that Dora might employ a werecat.

* CantHaveSexEver: Being her Guardian Angel, Joshua can't sleep with Dora, even though they'd both like it. Subverted in ''Winner Takes It All'' when Gabriel proposes to free him from his Guardian position. Joshua declines, as Dora's already with Miron by then.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Honestly, every man in this books is either hot, cute, handsome or distinguished. No wonder poor [[ScarsAreForever Bjorn]] is so concerned about his look.
* CategoryTraitor: FantasticRacism in action. Dora's considered this by some, as she keeps company of devil and angel (there was a war between judeo-christianism and magicals in the past). Joshua gets it worse from his peers - he's the angel part of the trio and angels are the most racist non-people in the 'verse.
** Subverted with Miron. Hellians don't really mind that he keeps Dora and Joshua's company, even though they find it unusual.

* CommonMarySueTraits: Dora, oh, Dora. Extremely beautiful, with two perfect men at her side, everybody wants her, she gets NewPowersAsThePlotDemands...
** Jadowska might finally start subverting this with introduction of Varg, who's competent, on heroes' side and can't stand Dora, not to mention that she finally starts ''losing''.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Happens to Joshua few times.
* CoolOldGuy: Lucifer. He's pretty chill about his grandson sneaking out to visit Eden, or keeping company of angel and witch. He also always supports the Trio, tries flirting with Dora (as a joke, but still...), and is capable of kicking much ass when necessary.
* CoolSword: Archangels' swords, the only weapon capable of killing an angel.
* CouncilOfAngels: As god rarely intervenes, Heaven is ruled by seven archangels, or, if matter is serious, them and their families. However, some are more equal than others and pretty clear that Michael, Gabriel and Raizel hold the most influence.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Averted in second edition of the series - covers shows Dora in different badass positions, although the model seems to change every book. However, the first edition of ''Soul Thief'' is guilty: the blurb suggested ''Soul Thief'' was yet another paranormal romance (with a healthy serving of [[IncrediblyLamePun lame puns]]). It probably scared off a lot of readers.

* CreativeSterility: After Henry turned into vampire, he gained ability to play every song in his listeners' minds perfectly, but is no longer able to compose anything himself, to his grief.
* CuteAndPsycho: Laoise seems to be a nice and sweet person ([[NiceGuy Joshua]] vouches for her, and that's something), but her time in Raphael's facility left her mentally unstable, and she can control fire, creating a rather volatile mix.

* DarkActionGirl: Nikita. AntiHero or AntiVillain, depends on who you ask. She belongs to a secret international assassins society.
* DemonicPossession: In ''Exorcisms'', Dora is possessed by a "beast" demon, although neither is happy about it.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Varg is said to possess a huge collection of digital porn. Dora mocks it whenever he annoys her, but can't understand why he does that, as he probably could have any girl he'd start to.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Hell's rulers, with no EvilOverlord figure to take the helm, are a mix of forgotten deities, fallen archangels and demons (original denizens). Their standing in relation to each other is somewhat ambiguous - while Lucifer is often the one calling the shots and acting as a ruler, Samael seems independent and nobody crosses Baal.
* DirtyMindReading: Some time after Trio gets their mind link Dora and Miron have sex, but have to stop because Joshua, who's asleep at the time, is seeing the entire thing from Dora's perspective and wakes up, surprised. Matter takes some time to clear, but finally Trio has a healthy laugh at it, with Miron proposing that Joshua (who CantHaveSexEver) can spy next time... only maybe from Miron's perspective.
* DomesticAbuse: In ''All Stays In The Family'' Dora stumbles upon a werewolf family where husband abuses his wife and little (<10) daughter. Domestic abuse being her BerserkButton, Dora quickly beats the hell out of him, but later realizes with shock that wolf's wife loves him despite everything.

* DoubleStandard: In ''Exorcisms'', Dora has a short rant about the type of old ladies ("geriatric harpies") who do this: if a woman in her thirties is living alone, then she's ''obviously'' a slut who sleeps for money; if it's a man in his thirties who lives alone, then he's obviously misunderstood and hurt and has to have a wife found for him.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: One of Dora's powers which sometimes overlaps with TalkingInYourDreams (mostly in ''Gods Must Be Crazy'') and DreamSpying (mostly in ''Winner Takes It All''). Sometimes it gets downright annoying, but is generally helpful. Except when you're spying on the dreamsnatcher, because he can go full [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] on you.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Played with. In book 2 the Trio is invited to a carnival party by the vampires of Triple Alliance. Expecting interrogation, maybe imprisonment, they come in armed, but as vampire carnival party rule is "dress as non-vampire", the Trio - none of whom is a vampire - decide to dress as vampires from famous movies.

* EvilIsPetty: Raphael really knows how to hold a grudge, and Jezebel isn't much better, either.

** There's a scene in ''Winner Takes It All'' when Dora gets to [[ItMakesSenseInContext watch Baal make out with cute girl]]. The scene starts as pure {{Fanservice}}... [[spoiler:up until girl drugs Baal unconscious and kills him in rather gruesome manner]].
* {{Fanservice}}: ''Loads''. Every sex or kiss scene is quite detailed, most of the characters look young and sexy (and what would you do, dear Tropers, if you could work on your body for thousands of years?) and their descriptions are generally SceneryPorn. The female characters wear leather, translucent costumes, skin-tight costumes or AbsoluteCleavage.
* FantasticRacism: An important plot point and one of the themes of the series. It's said that many of angels dislike magicals and vice-versa. Half-blood, such as angel-devil hybrids (like Leon) or angel-magical creature hybrids (like Nathaniel) are not seen favourably - attitudes vary from "it's a bit unnatural" to "''this thing'' must die". Magicals and Judeo-Christianics have a long history of violence and, being long lived, some of them still remember Inquisition and witch burning. Members of Hell, Heaven and magical community have separate districts, restaurants and clubs - it's unlikely to see a magical in Hell's bar or an angel in magicals' club. Although leaders of all three groups try to calm them down, conflict remains festering under the surface. In those circumstances, friendship between Dora, Miron and Joshua is considered something unusual, to say the least.
* FantasyKitchenSink: Christianity is real, but so are part of Islam and Judaism. There are Slavic, Egyptian and Greek deities living door to door, with Norse pantheon sometimes jumping into the [[StealthPun fray]]. Werewolves are accompanied by dozens of other were-beasts, vampires, Eastern and Western European folk monsters, all types of magic users known to man, FairFolk and elves. And one guy's a Native American Shaman, who sees ghosts and spirits.
* FallenAngel: Rulers of Hell, like Samael or Lucifer are those. Most of hellians, however, were living there long before the Fall.

* FisherKing: [[spoiler: Ibrahim's]] surroundings became rotted, dying and full of poisonous animals after he lived there for a few years. It's disputable whether it's directly because of his aura, or is it the magic circle he set up sucking out all the life from the area.
* ForegoneConclusion: By the third book, Jadowska published a short story featuring a werewolf alpha called Jędrzej, with a note that it takes place after the series. Come book six, and [[spoiler:a war breaks out between werewolf alpha Bruno and Dora. Bruno has a henchman named Jędrzej.]] Wanna guess who ends up as the new alpha?
* GentleGiant: Leon, who's over two meters tall and a ''czart'' (one of Hell's residents), but at the same time is the kindest and gentlest of Dora's friends. On the other hand, he's [[BewareTheNiceOnes Lucifer's ex-general]]...

** In ''Sword Thief'' Joshua borrows Michael's [[InfinityPlusOneSword Archangelic Sword]] when he senses that Dora and Miron are in danger.
** In the climax of ''Winner Takes It All'' Angel Of Death lends his sword to Dora when she's about to face TrialByCombat (she doesn't have her own).
* GladiatorGames: In ''No Innocents At War'', we find out that Bruno runs an underground fight club for werewolves, when they often fight to death against their captured and unwilling kin.
* GodMode: Some angels can Manifest, which turns their aura into HolyHandGrenade, grants them NighInvulnerability and makes them excellent fighters. As one might expect, this usually ends in a CurbStompBattle, although fortunately for angels' enemies, Manifesting happens ridiculously rarely.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Lucipher. Miron. Baal. Leon. Generally most of hellians aren't bad guys, but aren't doormats, either.

** Inga is extremely jealous of Dora's "obvious infatuation" with Olaf (her love) - so much, Dora actually thinks that Inga was one of she-werewolves that attacked her. It passes after Inga finds out that "obvious infatuation" was an act.

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

* HemoErotic: Seems to be a generic vampire fetish, since they enjoy sex and blood drinking in the same way. Partially werewolves' fetish too, since ability to turn into giant, fanged, tusked beast opens possibilities for BDSM-ers.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Joshua with Miron. They kept each other company since they were seven and Dora doesn't change anything in between them.

* HotAsHell: Miron, Baal (see Mr Fanservice below) and Lucifer, even if the last one is just showing off for fun.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Dora in ''All Stays In The Family'' when she finds out Baal's shipping her with [[spoiler:Miron]]. She considers shipping a terrible practice and doesn't want him to do this... while, two chapters earlier, she started "[[UnusualEuphemism playing little Cupid]]" to Olaf and Inga.
** Raphael qualifies as well, having a son with a magical while [[FantasticRacism hating magicals]] and publicly stating that he considers mixed couples (magical/angelic) disgusting. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, though, as it turns out that it was the thing that possessed him that feigned hatred of magicals. Child happened before his possession.]]

---> '''Lucifer:''' ''We're here [[note]]In Hell[[/note]] because we rebelled against the rules of Heaven. What would it look like if we started to make unreasonable rules and expect hellians to obey them?''

* {{Humanshifting}}: One of Roman's magic powers, and he can use it both on himself and other people. It's explained as less of actual biological change and more of extremely detailed, touch-proof illusion.
* HypercompetentSidekick: Teresa is this to Gajusz. She's been a seneshal (second-in-command) of another vampire for years before Gajusz picked her up. She's capable of translating his "do this, now!" into coherent orders, she's able to organize everything in the nest while he's only playing inter-nest politics, she's able to smooth his fits of rage into relative calmness, she's able to aid him even when he clearly doesn't want help... It's insinuated that Gajusz would fall long ago if not for Teresa.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Subverted and then played straight in ''All Stays In The Family''. Dora considers getting to [[spoiler:Albin's]] house by the way of air vents, but she quickly finds out that nobody in her team would fit in them. Szelma, however, does, although only in her cat form.
* AccidentalPun: Meta example with pyr. In-universe, pyr is powerful fire demon, but as Polish grammatic rules go, she-pyr is "pyra"... which is also regional Polish name for potato.
* ActionGirl: Dora, of course, as a half blood Northern Witch (battle skills) and ex-policewoman with kickboxing training.
** Generally most of the female characters with more than two lines in-story qualify as the Action Girls, either by virtue of having magical powers or as police officers.
* ActionHero: Miron, since he's two-meters tall devil [[spoiler: with fire powers]].
* 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, Laoise), all existing alongside each other.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[OurAngelsAreDifferent Joshua]], [[WitchSpecies Dora]] and [[HotAsHell Miron]]. Image by [[http://www.dedodesign.pl/ Magdalena Babinska]], used with permission.]]

With Dora's six books published, this particular cycle is finished, but the author is planning to create a verse of novel series, with some Dora's sidekicks as main characters. The first of those would be ''Szamański Blues'' (''Shaman Blues''), focused on Witkacy.

With Dora's six books published, this particular cycle is finished, but the author is planning to create a verse of novel series, 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.

With six books in Dora's series, this particular series is finished, but the author is planning to create a verse of novel serieses, 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.