History Literature / MagicUniversity

* AllLovingHero: Kyle is pretty much this, with focus on the [[AnythingThatMoves all loving part]].

* GenderBender: People can change sex with magic here. Brandish was female, male, then female again. Alex is not sure whether she'd even (physically) female originally or not.

* ExtremeOmnisexual: The Esoterics have this as their job qualification, as it requires them to be able to have sex with everyone for ritualistic proposes. It eventually gets {{Deconstructed}} by the relationship between [[spoiler: Dean Bell and Master Brandish]]: while he is capable of having sex with women for professional reasons, he isn't actually attracted to them, and after [[spoiler:Brandish transitions to female]], they can't keep their relationship going, and he becomes so traumatized that he quits Esoterics and becomes a Blood Mage, who are essentially celibate.

* AnythingThatMoves: The Esoterics have this as their job qualification, as it requires them to be able to have sex with everyone for ritualistic proposes.
** This eventually gets {{Deconstructed}} by the relationship between [[spoiler: Dean Bell and Master Brandish]]: while he is capable of having sex with women for professional reasons, he isn't actually attracted to them, and after [[spoiler:Brandish transitions to female]], they can't keep their relationship going, and he becomes so traumatized that he quits Esoterics and becomes a Blood Mage, who are essentially celibate.

* ClosetKey: Frost to Kyle.

* VampiricDraining: Sirens feed on human sexual energy, and if done too much this can put them into comas. This happens to Alex and Frost in the first book at the hands of [[spoiler:Michael]], though he didn't mean to.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Well, not exactly a comic book casting, but the depiction of [[AttractiveBentGender Frost]] in the last book's cover has a staggering resemblance to a [[Creator/KeiraKnightley certain someone]]

* TechnicalVirgin: Female magical students often don't engage in intercourse, as being a virgin has [[VirginPower magical potency]]. However, other sex acts don't "count" apparently and so they can do those.

* VirginPower: A lot of female magical students stay virgins since this can give certain spells potency (however, it only applies to intercourse-[[TechnicalVirgin everything else is still fine]]).

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Well, not exactly a comic book casting, but the depiction of [[AttractiveBentGender Frost]] in the last book's cover has a staggering resemblance to a [[Creator/KieraKnightley certain someone]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University.

* RRatedOpening: The very first book, ''The Siren and the Sword'', opens with a male student having what [[OrWasItADream he thinks]] is a very graphic {{erotic dream}} having sex with his girlfriend.

* VirginPower: A lot of female magical students virgins since this can give certain spells potency (however, it only applies to intercourse-[[TechnicalVirgin everything else is still fine]]).

* TransEqualsGay: Subverted by Frost, who is openly bisexual. While he does enjoy being a boy, he does not stop being attracted to them just because he's got the body of one.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Surprisingly enough, [[ThePowerOfLove considering the main point of the series]], the main character is criticized for this, since he basically rewrites TheProphecy of The Prophecized Pair in the belief and hope that it was about him being destined to find true love. [[spoiler: It wasn't]]. In the end of the book, while he and Frost are deeply in love, he himself admits that he knows very little about him and that he honestly just loves the idea of being in love.

It also includes the book ''Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University'', a collection of short stories featuring characters from the books, published first as an e-book in June 2011 and hard copy in July 2015.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex

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* BiTheWay: Kyle starts heteronormative enough, but [[spoiler:he sleeps with Frost in the second book climax]] and by the third book he is functionally bisexual, even if he does not care too much for labels.

* ''The Siren and the Sword'', first published in July, 2009 as an e-book and October 2014 as a physical edition.
* ''The Tower and the Tears'', published in February 2010 as e-book and January, 2015 as hard copy.
* ''The Incubus and the Angel'', published both as hard copy in April, 2015.
* ''The Poet and The Prophecy'', published as e-book in September,2011 and as hard copy in September, 2015.

It also includes the book ''Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University'', a collection of short stories featuring characters from the books, published first as an e-book in June, 2011 and hard copy in July, 2015.

** This eventually gets Desconstructed by the relationship between [[spoiler: Dean Bell and Master Brandish]]: while he is capable of having sex with women for professional reasons, he isn't actually attracted to them, and after [[spoiler: Brandish transitions to female]], they can't keep their relationship going, and he becomes so traumatized that he quits Esoterics and becomes a Blood Mage, who are essentially celibately.
* Belligerent Sexual Tension: Played with. While this is certainly true from Frost's end, Kyle actually misses both parts of it at first. In the beginning, he is completely oblivious to Frost's attraction to him, and never really reciprocates the belligerent part of the trope.
* BiTheWay: Kyle starts heteronormative enough, but [[spoiler: he sleeps with Frost in the second book climax]] and by the third book he is functionally bisexual, even if he does not care too much for labels.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Kyle and Frost end up together and are very happy, and most of the magical world is safe, but many magic users lost their magic, and some their minds, and Kyle realizes that he is not actually a part of the Prophesied Pair, and that while he and Frost are deeply in love, they are not necessarily destined to be HappilyEverAfter and that just the fact the fact that they're infatuated right then does not mean that they're good for each other in the long run, especially with Kyle himself admitting that he loves the idea of being in love almost as much as he loves his actual partners.]]

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: Well, not exactly a comic book casting, but the depiction of [[AttractiveBentGender Frost]] in the last book's cover has a staggering resemblance to a [[Main/KieraKnightley certain someone]]

* EnergyAbsorption: The siren[[spoiler:, AKA Michael Candlin]], feeds on its partners' energy while having sex with them, as poor Frost realized.
* Geas: This form of magic is used to maintain the secrecy of the magic world and punish rogue magic users.
* Good People Have Good Sex
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Alex and Kyle. Well, not that heterosexual, if the events of Spellbinding are to be taken in account, especially considering the [[EveryoneIsBi setting where they live]]. Alex even admits that Kyle is pretty much the most important person in his life, even if the feeling is not mutual.
* TheMagicGoesAway: The main conflict of the books comes from the main characters efforts to avoid this. [[spoiler: In the end, it's revealed that this has happened many times during the history of magic, being responsible for the extinction of many magical species, like the Sphinx, and that it's occurrence is tied with the Geas, the spells utilized by magic users to maintain the secrecy of their world.]]

* The Siren and the Sword, first published in July, 2009 as an e-book and October 2014 as a physical edition.
* The Tower and the Tears, published in February 2010 as e-book and January, 2015 as hard copy.
* The Incubus and the Angel, published both as hard copy in April, 2015.
* The Poet and The Prophecy, published as e-book in September,2011 and as hard copy in September, 2015.

It also includes the book Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University, a collection of short stories featuring characters from the books, published first as an e-book in June, 2011 and hard copy in July, 2015.

* TheMagicGoesAway: The main conflict of the boo comes from the main characters efforts to avoid this. [[spoiler: In the end, it's revealed that this has happened many times during the history of magic, being responsible for the extinction of many magical species, like the Sphinx, and that it's occurrence is tied with the Geas, the spells utilized by magic users to maintain the secrecy of their world.]]

* EnergyAbsorption: The siren[[spoiler:, AKA Michael Candlin]], feeds on his partners' energy while having sex with them, as poor Frost realized.