YMMV / Death Masks

• Ass Pull: That the war with the Red Court was always going to happen, starting it early was in fact a good thing, and it coming from Shiro pretty out of the blue can come off as a cheap hand wave to relieve Harry and Susan of the responsibility of their actions in Grave Peril.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Harry at one point, remarking on Thomas's strained relations with his father Lord Raith, sarcastically compares Raith to Bill Cosby for his fathering skills (in this book published in 2003). Over a decade later, it seems Lord Raith (a wealthy, successful, long-lived Serial Rapist) has much more in common with Bill Cosby than we knew back then...
  • Harry states that he can't really blame Marcone for building his own power base and becoming a criminal in order to protect one child, and might have even done the same thing himself. Come books like Changes and Battle Ground...
  • Either this or Hilarious in Hindsight, depending on your view: Pretty much absolutely everything from the first page of Changes onwards only happens, directly or indirectly, because Molly gave Harry the idea to have bondage sex with Susan.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: When Thomas shows up to the duel, he's wearing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer shirt. This is funny enough on its own, as he is a vampire. But fast forward to the production of the audiobook, which is narrated by James Marsters, who played Spike in Buffy. Making it an unintentional Actor Allusion.
• Too Cool to Live: Shiro. From what we've seen, he would have trivialized every fight his teammates had across the series.