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* EvilAlbino: Your mileage may vary on whether or not Linay is this.
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* {{Gypsy}}: The Roamers take in Plain Kate after she leaves Samilae. Her learning about their culture and slowly becoming accepted is a major plot point.
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Filled with soul and poetry, this highly-character driven novel will alternately break your heart and make you laugh. It is filled as much with love and hope as it is courage and honour. It most certainly NeedsMoreLove.
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* FairyTale: Heavily inspired by Russian folktales, Plain Kate is something of a fairy tale in itself.
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* MarkOfTheSupernatural: Plain Kate is described as having "one eye the colour of river mud and one eye the colour of the river." This contributes to the townspeoples' misplaced belief that she is a witch.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Wherever Kate goes, she is spurned and cast away, for being an orphan and because they believe that she's a witch.
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* AnimalMotifs: Plain Kate is associated with cats. Linay, the witch-white, is a starving wolf. [[spoiler: his sister, Lenore]], is represented by the fox.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: At the very end.
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[[caption-width-right:304:''"A long time ago, in a market town by a looping river, there lived an orphan girl called Plain Kate."'']]
"Plain Kate" is a highly-acclaimed 2010 Fantasy novel by Erin Bow, inspired by Russian folklore.
The story begins in the town of Samilae, where Plain Kate lives with her father, Piotr, a master woodcarver. Plain Kate learns to carve from an early age, and her skill with a knife leads the townspeople to accuse her of witchcraft. After her father dies in a bout of witch's fever, Plain Kate struggles to survive on the streets of Samilae, accompanied by Taggle, her cat whom she has raised since he was a kitten. While life is far from easy, Plain Kate gets by—until a meeting with an albino witch and granter of wishes leads to the loss of her home and shadow. Alone save for Taggle, who, due to the witch Linay's machinations, can now talk, Plain Kate strikes out with a tribe of Roamers (Gypsy analogues) to find a way to retrieve her shadow. But paranoia and distrust quickly amass against her, and Linay is much, much more than he seems.
Filled with soul and poetry, this highly-character driven novel will alternately break your heart and make you laugh. It is filled as much with love and hope as it is courage and honour. It most certainly NeedsMoreLove.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AnimalMotifs: Plain Kate is associated with cats. Linay, the witch-white, is a starving wolf. [[spoiler: his sister, Lenore]], is represented by the fox.
* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler: Lenore]]. This serves as a majour impetus for Linay.
* AntiVillain: Whether [[spoiler: Linay]] is this or an AntiHero is up to debate.
* BlackMagic: Powered by shadows, blood, and death. Linay's signature style.
* BurnTheWitch!: The townspeople of Samilae and Lov are both very fond of this.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In spades.
* EvilAlbino: Your mileage may vary on whether or not Linay is this.
* FairyTale: Heavily inspired by Russian folktales, Plain Kate is something of a fairy tale in itself.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Rusalkas suffer this.
* HappilyEverAfter: A variation: [[spoiler: "And so they did, not always without trouble, but happily, and well, and for a long time thereafter."]]
* LivingShadow: A key plot element. Shadows not only live, but are a witch's foremost source of magical power.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Taggle may be arrogant and vain to an extreme (he ''is'' a cat, after all), his loyalty to Plain Kate, who raised him, is vital in more than one instance.
* MamaBear: Mother Daj seems to be this for all the Roamers.
* MismatchedEyes: Plain Kate is described as having "one eye the colour of river mud and one eye the colour of the river." This contributes to the townspeoples' misplaced belief that she is a witch.
* MissingMom: Plain Kate and Drina both. This is important.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Periods are associated with blood magic, which spooks the Roamers to no end.
* OnceUponATime: See the image caption.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: In the form of [[spoiler: Lenore]], the rusalka.
* Gypsy: The Roamers take in Plain Kate after she leaves Samilae. Her learning about their culture and slowly becoming accepted is a majour plot point.
* TalkingAnimal: Taggle. See also LoyalAnimalCompanion.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: After [[spoiler: the murder of his sister Lenore by the people of Lov]], Linay learns many dark secrets. Overlaps with PowerBornOfMadness.
* WitchSpecies: While not thoroughly explored, witchcraft is a genetic trait.
[[caption-width-right:304:''"A long time ago, in a market town by a looping river, there lived an orphan girl called Plain Kate."'']]
"Plain Kate" is a highly-acclaimed 2010 Fantasy novel by Erin Bow, inspired by Russian folklore.
The story begins in the town of Samilae, where Plain Kate lives with her father, Piotr, a master woodcarver. Plain Kate learns to carve from an early age, and her skill with a knife leads the townspeople to accuse her of witchcraft. After her father dies in a bout of witch's fever, Plain Kate struggles to survive on the streets of Samilae, accompanied by Taggle, her cat whom she has raised since he was a kitten. While life is far from easy, Plain Kate gets by—until a meeting with an albino witch and granter of wishes leads to the loss of her home and shadow. Alone save for Taggle, who, due to the witch Linay's machinations, can now talk, Plain Kate strikes out with a tribe of Roamers (Gypsy analogues) to find a way to retrieve her shadow. But paranoia and distrust quickly amass against her, and Linay is much, much more than he seems.
Filled with soul and poetry, this highly-character driven novel will alternately break your heart and make you laugh. It is filled as much with love and hope as it is courage and honour. It most certainly NeedsMoreLove.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AnimalMotifs: Plain Kate is associated with cats. Linay, the witch-white, is a starving wolf. [[spoiler: his sister, Lenore]], is represented by the fox.
* AndIMustScream: The fate of [[spoiler: Lenore]]. This serves as a majour impetus for Linay.
* AntiVillain: Whether [[spoiler: Linay]] is this or an AntiHero is up to debate.
* BlackMagic: Powered by shadows, blood, and death. Linay's signature style.
* BurnTheWitch!: The townspeople of Samilae and Lov are both very fond of this.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In spades.
* EvilAlbino: Your mileage may vary on whether or not Linay is this.
* FairyTale: Heavily inspired by Russian folktales, Plain Kate is something of a fairy tale in itself.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Rusalkas suffer this.
* HappilyEverAfter: A variation: [[spoiler: "And so they did, not always without trouble, but happily, and well, and for a long time thereafter."]]
* LivingShadow: A key plot element. Shadows not only live, but are a witch's foremost source of magical power.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Taggle may be arrogant and vain to an extreme (he ''is'' a cat, after all), his loyalty to Plain Kate, who raised him, is vital in more than one instance.
* MamaBear: Mother Daj seems to be this for all the Roamers.
* MismatchedEyes: Plain Kate is described as having "one eye the colour of river mud and one eye the colour of the river." This contributes to the townspeoples' misplaced belief that she is a witch.
* MissingMom: Plain Kate and Drina both. This is important.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Periods are associated with blood magic, which spooks the Roamers to no end.
* OnceUponATime: See the image caption.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: In the form of [[spoiler: Lenore]], the rusalka.
* Gypsy: The Roamers take in Plain Kate after she leaves Samilae. Her learning about their culture and slowly becoming accepted is a majour plot point.
* TalkingAnimal: Taggle. See also LoyalAnimalCompanion.
* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: After [[spoiler: the murder of his sister Lenore by the people of Lov]], Linay learns many dark secrets. Overlaps with PowerBornOfMadness.
* WitchSpecies: While not thoroughly explored, witchcraft is a genetic trait.
