Sammy Keyes/YMMV


 * Alas, Poor Villain:, as well as Heather
 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Again Heather. Is she really just a spiteful, manipulative brat or is she an emotionally damaged girl desperate for the attention and approval of her family and peers. Sammy can't seem to figure her out.
 * Sammy can be viewed as either a plucky amateur sleuth, or a nosy girl who causes trouble for all her friends.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: At least one per book, such as the bit in Psycho Kitty Queen where
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: At least one per book, such as the bit in Runaway Elf where
 * Draco in Leather Pants: Heather seems to have shades of this for most fans, especially in later books.
 * Growing the Beard: The series was good to begin with, but as time has gone on, the books have combined episodic mystery with arc-based character drama, thoroughly averting Status Quo Is God.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy. And in Dead Giveaway, it turns out that
 * Stoic Woobie: Good Lord, Holly. Her parents are dead, she's lived in eight abusive foster homes, and when Sammy finds her, she's living in a cardboard refrigerator box down by the river.
 * Toy Ship: Sammy/Casey. Marissa/Danny is not a Beta Couple, since they have roughly the same amount of trouble getting together.
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: Mocked thoroughly in Art of Deception.