Line #34 Literature/Kire


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4	''Kire'' is a Norwegian young adult UrbanFantasy bookseries written by Tonje Tornes set to have 3 books but is ongoing with only the 1st book given out.
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6	Erik's mother has killed a young woman, and he was the only witness to the incident. He refuses to talk about it, because the whole thing is quite impossible. It wasn’t a human being she killed, but a hulder. They both saw her, a hulder who tried to lure him away with her. Now his mother has been sentenced and put away, and other hulders are on the prowl for Erik.
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8	Erik and a group of other teenagers are entangled in a web of subterranean forces in the small rural community, and soon Erik can hardly tell reality from imagination. His only guide in to this world of magic, is the seductive hulder Flora…
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10	The official English page about it is [[http://eng.gyldendal.no/Children-Young-Adult/Fiction-13-years/Hulder here]]. And a review is [[http://thisinvisiblegirl.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/kire-hulder/ here]]. Cover illustrator is Elise M. Syvertsen whose Website/DeviantArt is [[http://oomizuao.deviantart.com/ here]].
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12	!!''Kire'' provides examples of:
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14	* ACupAngst: Subverted, Trine isn't really ashamed of it.
15	* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: [[spoiler: When Trine reads her brother's mind while he's cursed by Flora she gets a headache and decides she'll stab Flora's [[EyeScream eye out]] if she doesn't end the curse on Erik and Tore…]]
16	* AllergicToLove: Trine feels truly sick when reading Tore's perverted thoughts.
17	%%* AllMenArePerverts: At least when a huldra curses him.
18	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: How Erik was treated in the past.
19	* AlphaBitch: Monica, if people doesn't call her the most beautiful in class will she raid one's backpack and reveal one's secrets from it.
20	* BarrierMaiden: Flora protects her forest and the farm-house Erik lives in from her mother.
21	* BigBad: [[spoiler: Rosalin, Flora's mother.]]
22	* BigBreastPride: Monica again, she is hinted to have silicon even though she's really young.
23	* ColorMotifs: The 1st book is green, the 2nd is blue.
24	* CoolTeacher: Jack Flink is considered this only by Erik. [[spoiler: turns out to be a BadassTeacher as well as he's a wizard.]]
25	%%* CuteMonsterGirl: Flora
26	* TheEmpath: The twins, Trine and Tore. They can read each other's minds but also feel other people's feelings.
27	%%* {{Ephebophile}}: [[spoiler: Fjeldheim]]
28	* EvilBrit: Mr. Flink is believed to be this by many of the students.
29	%%* FairytaleMotifs
30	* FreakinessShame: Erik doesn't like that he sees things others doesn't as he's afraid of getting locked up as his mother...
31	* FriendlessBackground: Erik and [[spoiler: Flora]].
32	* FunnyForeigner: Subverted, the teacher from England, Jack Flink, is seen as scary by the students, expect for Erik whom finds the way he speaks very funny.
33	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Flora is half-hulder, half-[[spoiler: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_%28water_spirit%29 nøkk]] , which makes her discriminated among the magic creature society.]]
34	* HeadTurningBeauty:
35	** Flora gets this reaction from men who can see her.
36	** [[spoiler: Rosa in the first book's epilogue.]]
37	* HotForStudent: Fjeldheim dopes Lena down and tries to get her to another hospital with only him to "care" for her, this is not played for laughs.
38	* ISeeDeadPeople: Hears, in Lena's case.
39	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Ørjan
40	%%** JerkWithAHeartOfGold, after CharacterDevelopment, well kinda anyway.
41	* JustFriends: Erik and Trine, although she seems to have some feelings for him.
42	%%* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Flora
43	* MayFlyDecemberRomance: Flora and all the human men she flirts with. [[spoiler: Rosalin also invokes this.]]
44	** Vindfjell in the prologue of the second book refers to this with that he was in love with a human girl, but their lives are so short so she's probably dead already.
45	%%* MoreThanMindControl: A hulder's curse.
46	* NoExportForYou: Like with ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'' and ''Literature/{{Halvgudene}}''.
47	%%* OurElvesAreDifferent: Only elves are allowed to [[InterspeciesRomance crossbreed with other races.]]
48	* OutWithABang: Vindfjell mentions that if he managed to make a young girl come with him to his mountain, would it be so damp in there that she'd die while they where making love.
49	* TwoTeacherSchool: The only teacher appearing in-story is Jack Flink, a teacher from England, he teaches them maths, English, geography, pretty much everything, even Norwegian! [[spoiler: And in the end of the 1st book, magic! But only too Erik, Tore, Trine, Lena and Flora.]]
50	* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: It at least gives Trine enough BrainBleach to make her exhausted for a week.
51	* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler: Erik's power, much to Flora's dismay as she can't teach him that and it's demons who has to teach him.]]
52	%%* RedEyesTakeWarning: Flora have those.
53	* SafetyInMuggles: It's safer to stay in cities as magical creatures stay away from them.
54	* SdrawkcabAlias: Huldras call Erik; Kire.
55	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Flora as she seems to notice how her skimpy clothes affect Erik a little too well.
56	* ShipperOnDeck: Ørjan ships [[{{Twincest}} Trine a]][[{{Squick}} nd Tore]]. He often prints out lists of countries where [[IncestYayShipping siblings can get married]].
57	* ShoutOut:
58	** Many to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' later in the first book.
59	** Erik has a [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] alarm clock.
60	** Two twins, a girl who's a tomboy and the boy being a bit more feminine. Oh yes, the boy is implied to think perverted. Sure you aren't talking about ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}''?
61	* SinglemindedTwins: Tore and Trine whom can hear each other's thoughts.
62	* {{Telepathy}}: [[spoiler: Trine gains the ability to do it on other people than her brother later in the first book.]]
63	* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: [[spoiler: How Rosalin treats Flora. She also refers to Vindfjell as her "offspring" and he to her as his "creator" rather than her "son" and his "mother".]]
64	%%* TwinTelepathy: Trine and Tore.
65	%%* UrbanFantasy
66	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Flora can change her haircolor and eyecolor to the person she's looking at has. Erik notes that she looks just as sexy as a blonde with blue eyes (as himself), as a brunette (as the twins).
67	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The second book ''Forbannet'' (cursed) was first planned to be called ''Demoni'' If the 3rd one still will be called ''Svarteboka'' (the Black Book, the nickname of the biggest Norwegian spell book) is yet to be seen.
68	%%* {{Yandere}}: Flora is somewhat this for Erik.

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