Line #28 Literature/TheFaeriePath


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2	A cute series of young adult novels written by Frewin Jones, '''The Faerie Path''' follows the adventures of ordinary teenager Anita Palmer, after she discovers that she is the fairy princess Tania. The story then follows her various adventures in the immortal realm of Faerie.
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4	[[AC:The books are:]]
5	# ''The Faerie Path''
6	# ''The Lost Queen''
7	# ''The Sorcerer King'' (also published as ''The Seventh Daughter'')
8	# ''The Immortal Realm''
9	# ''The Enchanted Quest''
10	# ''The Charmed Return''
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12	The series also contains a manga adaptation, and the same author also writes other series, including the ''Warrior Princess'' series.
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14	!!The entire series contains examples of:
15	%%* ActionGirl: Most of the princesses at different times.
16	* AndIMustScream:
17	** The Amber Prisons. A case of FridgeBrilliance in that what Tania loves the most is to travel and explore; it's even a magical gift for her. No wonder the idea of eternal stasis is so horrible.
18	** [[spoiler: Gabriel - one look into his silver eyes, and he can skewer you with a sword and make you think he's doing you a favor.]]
19	%%* BadassBookworm: Sancha.
20	* BadassFamily: The entire royal family of Faerie. They also qualify as RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething.
21	* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: Cordelia is a mild case, being somewhat brusque with other faeries, but much more at ease with animals.
22	* BlindIdiotTranslation: The German version not only shortens the whole books by large amounts, especially the parts mainly serving character development to the point to render Anita/Tania a passive, smiling girl and many a minor character a mere [[FlatCharacter cardboard cutout]], but also offers quality translations like "die rothaarige Schwester" (literally "the red-headed nurse") for "the Irish nurse" or "ein bisschen Spaß" (literally "some fun") for "a good night out".
23	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Zara, Sancha and Tania. Also, Rathina/Hopie (brunettes) and Cordelia.
24	%%* CharacterDevelopment
25	%% * CoolBigSis: Six of them. The ImmortalProcreationClause doesn't seem to count for the royal family.
26	%% * ColdIron: Faeries call it Isenmort. It's poisonous.
27	%%* DarkIsEvil
28	%%* TheEvilPrince: [[spoiler:Gabriel Drake]]
29	%%* FieryRedhead: Tania, at times.
30	%%* FriendToAllLivingThings: Cordelia and Bryn.
31	* GenerationXerox: Tania is "the very image and reflection" of Titania, which is odd considering how many human incarnations she's lived through.
32	* GratuitousPrincess: Tania, Rathina, Zara, Hopie, Eve, Cordelia and Sancha are all princesses.
33	* HalfHumanHybrid: Tania is half human and half Faerie, which is both her greatest asset and a source of endless internal conflict as she struggles to decide where she belongs.
34	* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Subverted. Although many people in Faerie are excellent fencers, not one instance is recalled where their skills are actually implausible.
35	%%* LoveMartyr: Rathina, so very much.
36	%%* LuckySeven
37	%%* MagicalGirl: Again, all the princesses. And Titania.
38	* MagicalLand: The immortal realm of Faerie.
39	%%* MagicMusic: Zara's gift.
40	%%* TheMedic: Hopie.
41	* MindlinkMates: Part of a Faerie marriage ceremony is to hold hands and pour a magic potion over them, which gives the couple a temporary ability to read each other's minds. It makes sense - since faeries are immortal, they'd better make darn sure that getting married is the right decision.
42	* {{Mordor}}: Ynis Maw and Ynis Borealis.
43	* MuggleFosterParents: The Palmers. They have trouble adjusting to Anita/Tania's identity, especially Mr. Palmer, but are very kind and supportive throughout.
44	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Tania always acts with the best of intentions, but sometimes ends up just making the situation worse. [[spoiler: Before the start of the series, experimenting with her powers was what got her lost in the first place. The sword she uses to free Edric, and then forgets about, is later used by Rathina to free the Sorcerer King. Bringing Connor through to cure ThePlague accomplishes nothing, beyond making him miserable. Luckily she always manages to fix her mistakes somehow.]]
45	%%* OlderThanTheyLook: Well, most of the cast are faeries...
46	%%* TheProphecy: Lots of them.
47	%%* [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare Shout-Out: To Shakespeare]]
48	* VillainPedigree: The {{Big Bad}}s just keep getting bigger: [[spoiler: Gabriel, the Sorcerer King, Prince Lear.]]
49	* WillNotTellALie: Seems to be an Aurealis family trait, except for Tania (and presumably [[spoiler:Titania]]) who need to keep up TheMasquerade. Tania does have a hard time lying, though. [[spoiler: Rathina, who spends the first book pretending to be Tania's best friend while secretly plotting to force her marriage to Gabriel, becomes the most brutally honest of all after her return to the good side.]]
50	* WillTheyOrWontThey: Tania and Edric, with faint shades of TheMasochismTango. Really, the hurt those two inflict on each other makes you wonder why they bother coming back.
51	* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:For such a powerful king, Oberon does need a lot of rescuing: first from his depression in book 1, then from an Amber Prison ''twice'': once in book 3, once in book 6.]]
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53	[[WMG:Book One]]
54	%%* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler:Gabriel Drake]]
55	* AristocratsAreEvil: Only some of them. [[spoiler:Gabriel Drake for sure, and possibly his father.]]
56	* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: On Anita's 16th birthday, she almost dies in a boat crash, gains mystical faerie powers and discovers she's a lost princess.
57	* FaceHeelTurn:
58	** Used interestingly with Edric. [[spoiler:At first, it seems as if Edric had done this in his relationship with Tania, but then, it turns out Gabriel Drake made the real Face-Heel Turn.]]
59	** There's another example later when [[spoiler:Rathina is revealed to have betrayed them all]].
60	%%* FisherKing: Oberon.
61	* KickTheDog: It's seeing how harshly [[spoiler: Gabriel]] treats [[spoiler:Edric]] that makes Tania realize he's the villain.
62	%%* LadyOfWar: Again, all the princesses.
63	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Tania has forgotten all her memories of the Faerie Realm.
64	%%* LivingMacGuffin: Tania, at first.
65	%%* MacGuffin: the soulbooks
66	%%* MadwomanInTheAttic: Eden in her tower. [[spoiler: She gets better.]]
67	* PrinceCharming:
68	** This is the reader's initial impression of [[spoiler:Gabriel Drake]].
69	** Edric from Tania's perspective, even though he's technically not a prince.
70	* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: The quote from ''Romeo and Juliet'' that makes Tania finally realize which of her suitors truly loves her.
71	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Gabriel implies that Eden has turned into this. [[spoiler: He's lying.]]
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73	[[WMG:Book Two]]
74	%%* CoolShip: The Cloud Scudder.
75	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Tania's nightmares about [[spoiler: being trapped with Edric on Ynis Maw]].
76	* FishOutOfWater: The princesses in the Mortal World.
77	* HumansAreBastards: Sancha, Zara and Cordelia share this opinion, especially Cordelia, who is horrified by the pollution in modern-day London.
78	* InvisibleToNormals: The Gray Knights.
79	* LivingMacGuffin: The titular 'lost queen'.
80	%%%* MindRape: [[spoiler: Gabriel]] tries it twice.
81	* PunnyName: Lilith Mariner, anyone? It's made even more noticeable by the fact that Edric points it out.
82	%%* TheQuest
83	* SarcasticConfession: Tania to Jade.
84	-->'''Jade:''' What really happened to you while you were missing? Come on, I want the truth.
85	-->'''Tania:''' The truth? Okay. The truth is I went to another world and found out that I'm a Faerie princess.
86	-->'''Jade:''' Good one!
87	* SmittenTeenageGirl: Tania's parents see her as this in regards to Edric, and even forbid her from seeing him because he's a "bad influence". To be fair, from their point of view it does look like Tania's sudden mood swings and disobedience are caused by him.
88	* TermsOfEndangerment: [[spoiler: Gabriel's "My Lady" sounds much less romantic this time around.]]
89	* WhatTheHellHero: Edric gives Tania a thorough telling-off when he finds out she's been to see a fortune teller, in spite of knowing that [[spoiler: Gabriel]] can reach her through a medium. She doesn't take it well.
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91	[[WMG: Book Three]]
92	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:They defeat the Sorcerer King, but Zara dies.]]
93	* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Rathina, who has been Gabriel's devoted LoveMartyr throughout the series, finally snaps when she sees him killing Zara. She stabs him in revenge.]]
94	* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Oberon, stuck in an Amber Prison on Ynis Maw until Tania gets him out.]]
95	* EvilMatriarch: Lamia of the Lyonesse, although she's only mentioned once. She's in the manga, though.
96	%%* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Rathina, again.]]
97	* GrimUpNorth: Prydain, the geographical equivalent of Scotland on the FantasyMap where Faerie is shaped just like Britain.
98	* KickTheDog: The Sorcerer King, torturing his prisoners.
99	%%* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler: Cordelia and Bryn.]]
100	* ThePowerOfLove: Between Oberon and Titania, and between the sisters (the Power of Seven).
101	* ThisIsUnforgivable: Sancha, after [[spoiler: the Library is burned down, including the Soul Books.]]
102	* {{Unicorn}}s: They're pretty, all right, but very dangerous. Not to mention carnivorous.
103	%%* WackyWaysideTribe: The Lios Foltaigg.
104	----
105	[[WMG: Book Four]]
106	%%* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Rathina.]]
107	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Connor.
108	* FantasticRacism: Lord Aldritch and Hollin call Tania a "half-thing" and accuse her of bringing evil to Faerie just for being who she is.
109	* FishOutOfWater: Poor Connor. Also Clive Palmer; they're both scientific, logical types, who don't deal well with the Faerie Realm at all.
110	* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler: Cordelia and Bryn.]] Tania, due to her 21st-century upbringing, strongly disapproves of this. Especially when [[spoiler: Edric]] suggests following their example. [[spoiler: She turns him down hard, triggering one of their "off again" periods that lasts far into the next book.]]
111	* LightIsNotGood: Hollin, who dresses in bright yellow and claims to be a famous healer, but is really just an AxCrazy charlatan out for Tania's blood.
112	* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: Cordelia and Bryn's wedding becomes the site of a gruesome epidemic. Worse yet, Cordelia herself becomes ill during what is implied to be {{Their First Time}}.]]
113	%%* ThePlague
114	%%* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Edric]]
115	* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:Tania had a crush on Connor when they were younger, which he ignored. Now that SheIsAllGrownUp, he falls for her, but since she is irrevocably in love with Edric, he doesn't stand a chance.]]
116	----
117	[[WMG: Book Five]]
118	%%* CrystalDragonJesus: The Divine Harper.
119	* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler: Edric]] has a hard time giving up the Dark Arts.
120	%%* TheFairFolk: Ashling dar Dair.
121	* ImmortalityImmorality: [[spoiler: Connor]] makes a deal with Lord Balor, who is searching for the secret to immortality: in return for handing over [[spoiler: Tania and Rathina]] to Balor to experiment on, Balor will let him take the secret back to [[spoiler: England]] and become rich and famous. [[spoiler: It ends badly for both of them: Balor dies, Connor is mind-wiped.]]
122	* KidWithTheLeash: Lord Balor and his chained Salamander. [[spoiler:Once the Salamander is freed, it takes gleeful revenge and is glad to help Tania in return.]]
123	* MindRape: [[spoiler: Edric to Tania, taking on eerie shades of Gabriel Drake. Somewhat understandable, since he was Gabriel's adopted brother and sidekick for more than five hundred years. Some of his influence is bound to stick. But really, hypnotizing your ex-girlfriend into dancing with you when she clearly doesn't want to? Not nice.]]
124	** When [[spoiler: Ashling]] does the same thing to him later on, you can't help feeling as though it's LaserGuidedKarma.
125	* MindScrew: The land of Erin. There's one region of endless night, another of endless day, one where the voices of dead loved ones call to travelers from the trees ... you would not want to live there. Connor perceives the entire Faerie Realm as this.
126	* TheMole: [[spoiler: Connor.]]
127	%%* {{Pirate}}: Lord Balor.
128	* ShapeshiftingSquick: What Ashling does to [[spoiler: Edric, as a test of Tania's love and loyalty.]]
129	* SourSupporter: Connor, whose grumbling gets on everybody's nerves.
130	---
131	[[WMG: Book Six]]
132	* ArcWords: "Do not listen to the hooves ... "
133	* TheChessmaster: Lear, to an extreme degree. Even Tania doesn't notice until it's almost too late.
134	* FriendshipMoment: Jade comforting Tania, who's had yet another case of LaserGuidedAmnesia.
135	* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: [[spoiler: Most of the Faerie population.]]
136	* IKnowKarate: Jade, who turns out to be quite the BadassNormal and surprisingly helpful.
137	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: After all her experiences with [[DreamingOfThingsToCome Prophetic Dreams]], Tania worries about whether her latest set of nightmares means anything or not. [[spoiler: It does.]]
138	* MyFutureSelfAndMe: [[spoiler: Tania travels back in time to recruit ''six'' of her previous human incarnations to help her save Faerie, which she finds somewhat horrifying - especially since she needs to fetch them just before their natural deaths.]]
139	* TheOphelia: [[spoiler:Cordelia, who is assumed to be dead but is actually locked in Eden's former tower. By the time Tania and Jade find her, though, she's just ObfuscatingInsanity to protect herself from Lear.]]
140	* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler: Rathina and Titus, who was one of Zara's suitors before she died. Also, Titus is their step-cousin.]]
141	%%* SaveBothWorlds
142	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler: Lear, disguised as trusted advisor Raphael Cariotis.]]
143	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Hollin, who was magically banished to an unknown location by Edric and never heard from again. Also Oberon, who leaves to renew his bargain with the Divine Harper; the price he needs to pay is left unknown, but it is implied in a few parts of the book that he gave up his life to save Faerie.]]

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