History YMMV / TheCinderSpires

** The Mistmaw, and everything it does - a {{Kaiju}} and borderline AnimalisticAbomination, under Cavendish's control, it's capable of wiping out entire Spires. Which it does, being a mile-wide monster capable of eating thousands of people alive, by grabbing them with acid soaked tentacles and reeling them into its belly where they're slowly absorbed through the skin. We don't see too much of the details, with Bridget at one point refusing to look, and Saza, who'd compared the fleeing humans to field mice running from an overturned nest, murmurs, subdued, "the poor mice."

** Everything Cavendish does, since she simply radiates UncannyValley.

* KarmaHoudini: While [[spoiler: Mistshark is certainly battered in her exchange with Predator,]] that's pretty much the extent of the consequences Ransom suffers by the end of the first book for killing numerous civilians purely for the pay.
** Commodore Rook is an even more egregious example, considering his cowardice resulted [[spoiler: in the loss of hundreds of lives and even more damage to Albion's fleet than already suffered.]]

** Commodore Rook is an even more egregious example, considering his cowardice resulted in the loss of hundreds of lives and even more damage to Albion's fleet than already suffered.

** Sark, Cavendish's warriorborn servant, who acts unnervingly feral, and is referred to as a "monster" by Espira. [[spoiler: It's implied that his personality and/or is linked to a silkweaver, given the way he moves and acts is very unlike a warriorborn.]]

** Sark, Cavendish's warriorborn servant, who acts unnervingly feral, and is referred to as a "monster" by Espira.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Jim describes it as "Hornblower meets ''League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''".

* TheWoobie: Folly, a young etherealist whose particular form of madness can't let her talk directly to anyone, and with the certain knowledge that it's going to get worse.

%%* CompleteMonster: Madame Cavendish.
* HateSink: Reginald. Doesn't even have a character sheet...and disappears from the story promptly. He's just there to give Gwen's party something to DO...Rook is another, but a more important one.

* NightmareFuel: Whatever Ferus actually did to the men that invaded his home. All we know is Folly ''refused'' to look, knowing that it would give her "more bad dreams"...

%%* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: As if two thirds of the main characters were actually going to die at the end.]] Given this is Jim Butcher... wait until the last book or two.

%%* TheWoobie: Folly.

* StopHelpingMe: At one point when Bridget's trying to negotiate with the Aurorans who are holding her hostage, Gwen tries to interject. Bridget asks her to ''please'' stop interfering.

%%* TheWoobie: Folly.
* Expy / MeaningfulEcho (meta version): someone's already discussed the resemblance that Rowl's sire Maul bears to Mister. Anyone else think Gwen comes across a lot like a teenage Murphy?

%%* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: As if two thirds of the main characters were actually going to die at the end.]]

%%* TheWoobie: Folly.

* CompleteMonster: Madame Cavendish.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler: As if two thirds of the main characters were actually going to die at the end.]]

* TheWoobie: Folly.