Line #15 Literature/ThirteenTreasures


1	''13 Treasures'' is a Young Adult fantasy trilogy written by Michelle Harrison about {{the fair folk}}, including ''13 Treasures'', ''13 Curses'', and ''13 Secrets''. A prequel, ''One Wish'', was released after the trilogy concluded.
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3	!!The books contain examples of:
4	* AlliterativeName: Edward and his wife Elizabeth Elvesden.
5	* BigFancyHouse: The Elvesden manor.
6	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Tanya is quite snarky and rude to her mother and Fabian, before her {{Character Development}} takes place.
7	* CassandraTruth: The reason why she is sent to her grandmother's mansion.
8	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Elizabeth’s charm bracelet holds the symbols of the Thirteen Treasures.]]
9	* CreepyChild: Changelings.
10	* DefrostingIceQueen: Tanya, who starts off as a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] and [[BrattyTeenageDaughter rude]] teen, but [[CharacterDevelopment gets]] [[TookALevelInKindness better]].
11	* DontGoIntoTheWoods: Tanya and Fabian are constantly lectured to avoid the Hangman's Woods. [[spoiler: Mainly because Morwenna lurks in them.]]
12	* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler: Morwenna Bloom to Florence.]]
13	* TheFairFolk
14	* FamilyEyeResemblance: [[spoiler: Red figures out that Rose is her birth mother after she recognizes that they both have green eyes.]]
15	* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: [[spoiler: Red is a victim of this. The parents who raised her were really her aunt and uncle and her birth mother and adoptive mother were sisters after the former became [[TeenPregnancy pregnant by a passerby fairy]] one summer.]]
16	* FantasyForbiddingFather: [[spoiler: Both of Red’s parents are these. She was even arguing with them because they didn’t believe she had the second sight just before they died.]]
17	* IHaveYourWife:
18	** The fairies kidnap Red's brother.
19	** [[spoiler: Morwenna kidnapped Tanya's mother when she was a baby, in order to blackmail Florence into completing the pact.]]
20	* HeroesLoveDogs: Tanya has a Doberman named Oberon.
21	* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler: Red was born to a unmarried [[HalfHumanHybrid human mother and a fairy father]].]]
22	* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname:
23	** Red’s given name is Rowan
24	** [[spoiler: Red’s birth mothers full name is Primrose, but after learning from Red’s father that primroses attract fairies and after he got her pregnant and took off, she shortened her name to Rose.]]
25	* LineageComesFromTheFather: Averted with Tanya as [[spoiler: she inherited her second sight from her mothers side of the family]].
26	* TheLostLenore: Morwenna was this to [[spoiler: Amos]]
27	* MeaningfulName:
28	** Tanya sounds similar to Titania, queen of the fairies in A Midsummer Nights Dream.
29	** Rowan is named for a tree that is said to provide protection against malevolent beings-including fairies.
30	* MissingMom: The series provides a few examples of this:
31	** Red's parents died in a car crush.
32	** Amos's wife left the family when Warwick was only a baby.
33	** Fabian's mother died when he was a child.
34	* PreachersKid: Morwenna was the daughter of a preacher.
35	* RedheadedHero: 13 Curses is told through Red’s point of view.
36	* RedIsHeroic: Tanya wears a red scarf after reading that red is supposed to ward off fairies.
37	* TheReveal:
38	** [[spoiler: Morwenna was never murdered or kidnapped. She ran away to the fairy realm and Florence almost joined her.]]
39	** [[spoiler: Morwenna Bloom was trying to trick Tanya into getting trapped in the Fairy Realm, so that Morwenna would be free to return to the human world.]]
40	** [[spoiler: Florence was acting aloof towards Tanya because she wanted to protect her from Morwenna’s clutches.]]
41	** [[spoiler: Elizabeth Elvensden was a changeling.]]
42	* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler: Red does this]] at the end of the first book.
43	* TookALevelInKindness: Tanya after the events of the first book.
44	* UnevenHybrid: Those who have the sight have some fairy ancestry, courtesy of the changeling switch.
45	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler: It’s this revelation that prompts Morwenna to try and return to the human realm.]]

Context Literature / ThirteenTreasures