YMMV / Dora Wilk Series

• Designated Love Interest: Varg's munin decides that he'll be a love interest for Dora. Neither is happy, and in the end, they both go without... consummating the pairing.
• Genius Bonus:
  • Might be one with Witkacy's nickname for Dora, "Ti" - there was a Hungarian composer with surname Dorati.
  • Subverted with As' full name. You'd think it's a reference to some obscure, but "real" demon, but no - it's an original name.
• Growing the Beard: The series gets noticeably better at the end of book three/beginning of book four with the romantic plot finally taking a back seat, Dora toning down her Mary Sue-ish quality and the series starting to distance itself, if slowly, from Anita Blake.
• One-Scene Wonder: Jean Mark appears in one scene, but his over-the-top Dracula rendition (which he takes absolutely seriously) combined with Purple Prose he speaks in is enough to make him memorable.
• So Bad, It's Good: Outside of the fandom it's really the only way to entertain these books.
  • The Narm Charm is precisely why sizable part of the fandom exists in the first place.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: There's a lot of characters which could use more screen time.
  • Jean Mark, with his approach to vampirism, disappears after one scene.
  • Dark Action Girl assassin Nikita and her bookworm brother Konrad with Dark and Troubled Past have perhaps twenty pages in one book only, despite the potential. Thankfully, that's what The Girl from the Miracles District is for.
  • Henry, a vampire cursed with Creative Sterility, but a brilliant guitarist nevertheless, didn't even get speaking lines, despite huge paragraph on his past.
  • Witkacy, oh, Witkacy. A misplaces shaman who works for the police, experiments with drugs and sees the spirits of the dead, and the series keeps on leaving him on the sidelines. At least now he's getting A Day in the Limelight with Shaman Blues.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Despite coming out between 2012 and 2014, the hexalogy was written a few years earlier and, as such, is a time capsule of the late 00s - particularly the late 00s in Poland. Various references to contemporary tech (or things that got obsolete already by the time of premiere) date the books to almost specific months, rather than years. Ironically, the series ditched any references to real-life politics and events after the first tome precisely to avoid getting dated.

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