Hopes dashed

Happy: looking at the 10-day weather forecast and seeing that it's going from 0 back up to 60 in a few days.
Sad: Realizing that you're not looking at the temperature column, you're looking at precipitation chance.

Esthshar Addenda

Further thoughts, on having read the whole corpus:

1. "[name] was certain that they would never be able to sleep after all that excitement, but they were awake [small number] of minutes after hitting the pillow." Is a phrase that shows up several times (though no more than once per book). Reading these while awake in the middle of the night icing my shoulder makes that extra-annoying.

2. Gosh, he sure likes a marriage as part of his happy ending. The books spend almost no time on "romance", per se, but if the protagonist is an adult male, odds are overwhelming that some awesome babe will show up in time to marry him at the end. This is especially notable early (publication-wise) in the series. In the first three books, the protagonist ends up marrying: A) A powerful immortal magician, B) A princess, C) one of *each*!

Of course, an awesome babe showed up in time to marry *me*, at a time when i didn't think my life contained any active romance plots, so in some ways, this is another aspect I can relate to :-)

3. On the other hand, the structure of the series allows him to revisit several of these marriages when the characters have supporting roles in later stories. None of them have remained unreasonably in "honeymoon" status. Most of the marriages are still intact and clearly good for the participants, but they do show signs of the stresses that come up in life, even after you've had Happily Ever After.