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**Daemonar
**Saetan
**[[Sa Diablo]] - A surname, shortened to [[Marquis Dede Sade|Sadi]] sometimes. Not sure if it's doubly bad or actually holds a spark of creativity.
*** Don't forget that "Diablo" means devil. So it's also just another example of the author's fixation on demon-related names for the male characters. Also, Jaenelle '''Angel'''line. Just to drive the point home.
 
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* The Dialogue: Either it's [[Mood Whiplash]], pretentious, or just not funny.
 
* World System: The culture, the government, or otherwise how everything is run; it's difficult to imagine how everything doesn't just fall apart on its own. A [[Inherent in Thethe System|world like this]] barely requires Jaenelle. Although it's true somebody has to start the ball rolling, oh well.
 
* The Prose: While it doesn't reach [[Purple Prose]] levels it does seem quite pretentious at times. Similar to the dialogue.
** Count how many times Jaenelle will speak in "a midnight voice" or a "midnight whisper". Or when her tone will become "sepulchral". Alternately, the "soft thunder" in Saetan's voice, or when either he or Daemon speak "too softly". For added fun, try the "bored, sleepy look" either male gets that the author tries to pass off as being intimidating. Finally, all the hissing and snarling that goes on when anyone's angry.
 
* The Relationship: Daemon is [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|creepily obsessed]] with Witch. His desire to "mate" with her is brought up at every opportunity, as are his assertions that he was born to be her lover. It's played as love, devotion, or maybe even destiny, but when you consider the fact that he's hunting down a woman who may not know of his existence (and isn't even a woman yet in the first book!) explicitly to seduce her, it's disturbing.
 
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]:
** Jaenelle has many, many friends. They're all supposed to be high-ranking Blood such as Queens and Warlord Princes. Two of them are even triple-gifted like her and there's hinting of a power triangle between them. Sadly, none of these friends, not even those two, are given much development. Many are no more than names. The only purpose they serve in the end is to show how [[Purity Sue|loved by all]] Jaenelle is.
 
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** Possibly a rare case where her being a total [[God Mode Sue]] is justified. Jaenelle is made of everyone's dreams about what the ideal Queen is. She was made out of centuries worth of people's [[Mary Sue]] fantasies.
 
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