Line #8 Literature/WarForTheOaks


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2	A fantasy novel by Creator/EmmaBull and one of the pioneering works of UrbanFantasy, ''War for the Oaks'' is the story of Eddi [=McCandry=], a Minneapolis rock singer who's just quit her band and broken up with her boyfriend. There's also the matter of TheFairFolk moving in -- quite literally -- with her, and an impending war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts into which she's just been drafted.
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5	!!Contains examples of:
6	* TheBaroness: The Queen of the Unseelie Court.
7	* BetaCouple: Carla and Dan.
8	* BodyguardCrush: [[spoiler:Eddi and the phouka.]]
9	* CharmPerson: [[spoiler:Willy]] does this to Eddi; she is unsurprisingly furious when she finds out.
10	* DancingIsSeriousBusiness.
11	* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: When Eddi is under a spell that removes all glamours, a side-effect is that she can hear her voice as she sounds to other people, which is a bit disorienting.
12	* DuetBonding: Eddi and Willy.
13	* ElementalBarrier: Around the battle area.
14	* ElvishPresley: One of the earliest examples.
15	* TheFairFolk: Two courts: the Seelie and Unseelie courts, roughly corresponding to good and evil.
16	* FairyCompanion: The phouka and Meg to Eddi.
17	* FairySexy: Many examples.
18	* GenderBlenderName: An offbeat one, too.
19	* AGoodNameForARockBand: The main cast come up with the name of their new band halfway through their first gig, after the phouka explains that having Eddi (who is linked to the fey in several ways) and two fey in the band makes their music faerie enough to serve as MagicMusic. Carla immediately seizes on the phrase "Eddi and the Fey" and suggests it as their band name.
20	* IceQueen: Two of them.
21	* InterspeciesRomance.
22	* InTheStyleOf: Eddi and her band like to try it as a kind of exercise.
23	* InvisibleToNormals
24	* IOweYouMyLife: Meg feels indebted to Eddi after Eddi saves her life--which is not a feeling that the fey are comfortable with--but Eddi absolutely refuses to take advantage of it, even when she needs Meg's help to [[spoiler:rescue Willy from the Unseelie Court]].
25	-->'''Eddi''': I hope you'll help me--but not because you think you owe it to me. Do it because you want to do me a favor, or [[spoiler: Willy]] a favor, or because you think it's right. Or don't do it. I can't blame you if you don't.
26	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Willy Silver]].
27	* LikeRealityUnlessNoted
28	* LoveableRogue: Most of the (non-evil) faeries, but the Phouka in particular.
29	* MagicalCounterfeiting: The phouka uses disappearing fairy gold (or rather hundred-dollar bills) to buy Eddi a motorcycle. When she realizes what he's done she makes it clear that is not okay, even if the guy he did it to is a jerk, and makes her point by urging the phouka to consider the possible impact on uninvolved bystanders if, for example, the guy were to spend or hand on some of the cash before the magic wears off.
30	* MagicMusic: True to folklore, the music of the faeries is impossible to resist, as audiences soon find.
31	* TheMole: [[spoiler: Hedge]].
32	* MundaneUtility: the magic of the phouka and Meg.
33	* MyspeldRokband: [=InKline Plain=], Stuart Kline's band, which Eddi is still a member of at the beginning of the novel, described as "the most misspelled band in Minneapolis."
34	* NatureSpirit: The glaistig and many other fairies.
35	* NeverTrustATitle: There are no strategically relevant oaks in the novel.
36	* NoNameGiven: The phouka is only ever addressed [[RaceNameBasis by the name of his species]] (although he uses the alias of [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Robin Goode]] among humans not in the know). Whether he doesn't have a name or just isn't revealing it is never discussed.
37	* NotQuiteSavedEnough: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Willy]].
38	* ThePowerOfFriendship: The special bond between Eddi and the phouka, created by Eddi's answer to the Queen, gives her a special power over fairies' fate.
39	* ThePowerOfRock: Present throughout the novel [[spoiler: including the final battle]].
40	* UsefulNotes/TwinCities: The setting of the book; all the places mentioned in the novel are real.
41	* UrbanFantasy: One of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]].
42	* YourMindMakesItReal: That is why the phouka warns Eddi against doubt.

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