The Night Angel Trilogy/YMMV


 * Author Appeal: An awful lot of the female characters in this series are prostitutes - and large chunks of the text are devoted to discussing their role, their lifestyles and what exactly they do for a living. Reaches cringe-worthy levels in the second book with hundreds of women queuing up at brothels to earn a living.
 * For what it's worth, when an interviewer asked Weeks which character he most identifies with, it was Momma K.
 * Justified in that because of how the city was set up, just about any non-Sakage endorsed female will end up raped at one point or another, you may as well get paid for it. Not to mention they needed the safety... It makes more sense in universe.
 * Considering his wife works/ed with them as a social worker of sorts, it could be that he's simply very familiar with the lifestyle. Write what you know, indeed
 * Prostitution is also not really portrayed as a 'good' thing either. It all makes sense in the context of the book. That said, all of the main female characters are described as attractive, even Elene once one can look past the scars.
 * Complete Monster: Hu Gibbet. If the murder of the  scene wasn't bad enough, he regularly takes to   his apprentice, as well as other women. Women Hu Gibbet gets bored of do not last long.
 * Roth . He gets off on torturing people and seeing the fear in their eyes. And just to confirm that he has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever, there is a section in the book where he shows off his wealth, and then proceeds to use an arbalest to shoot down starving peasants for game. He then proceeds to hint that he has them cooked and then eats them.
 * Roth's father Garoth Ursuul is several magnitudes worse, starting with the fact that he is easily the most prolific rapist on the planet and going downhill from there into a lifetime of lies, manipulation, warmongering, torture, and serial and mass murder. And then there is Khali, who is so evil even being in the same region as her can drive you insane. She engineers wars and catastrophes because she gains power from suffering- though in reality, she gains it from any strong emotion; suffering is just the easiest to generate, and she probably likes it.
 * Nightmare Fuel.
 * The book is about a killer and his master, what do you expect? In-book examples include the sight of  horrifying Azoth, a child hardened by violence and similar abuse towards other people in the Warrens, to vomit and panic and   Even
 * The descriptions of the  also:
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 * But then they just right on
 * They're made worse by the fact that
 * When Kylar and Vi find out what the Godking kept in his bedroom...
 * Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Brent says in an interview one of his goals with Vi was to subvert this.
 * They're made worse by the fact that
 * When Kylar and Vi find out what the Godking kept in his bedroom...
 * Real Women Never Wear Dresses: Brent says in an interview one of his goals with Vi was to subvert this.