Line #47 Literature/Sweep


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The full series. [[note]]Volumes not placed in any order.[[/note]]]]
3	A 15-book series by Cate Tiernan (known as ''Wicca'' in the UK and elsewhere) about 16-year-old Morgan Rowlands who, after discovering that the dreamy and mysterious new guy at school is a witch, finds out that she herself is a very powerful "blood witch", descended from one of the Seven Clans of Wicca. All sorts of magical and romantic drama ensue.
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5	It consists of the following entries:
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7	# ''Book of Shadows''
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9	# ''The Coven''
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11	# ''Blood Witch''
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13	# ''Dark Magick''
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15	# ''Awakening''
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17	# ''Spellbound''
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19	# ''The Calling''
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21	# ''Changeling''
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23	# ''Strife''
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25	# ''Seeker''
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27	# ''Origins''
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29	# ''Eclipse''
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31	# ''Reckoning''
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33	# ''Full Circle''
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35	# ''Night's Child''
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37	!!This series shows examples of:
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39	* ACupAngst: Morgan complains about this at least three times per book. [[MaleGaze Hunter isn't displeased by it at all.]]
40	* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Cal insists that he truly fell in love with Morgan after being instructed by his mother to seduce her]].
41	%% * BetaCouple: Matt and Jenna (temporarily), Sharon and Ethan, Robbie and Bree.
42	%% * BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Selene Belltower.]]
43	* BrotherSisterTeam: Sort of: Sky and Hunter are cousins, though they were raised together like siblings.
44	%% * ButIWouldReallyEnjoyIt: A rare male example between Morgan and Hunter.
45	%% * ButtMonkey: Angus, Robbie and almost every male that appears in the series and isn't evil, a background character or Hunter.
46	* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:A sguir dan or destroyer, who is said to set the path for the Woodbanes once every several generations and are given strong magic to accomplish it to boot. The current one turns out to be Morgan.]]
47	* TheClan: Seven of them, actually, though centuries of fighting, persecution and intermarriage have (at least theoretically) made clan identity meaningless. Unless you're an evil Woodbane, of course.
48	* CallForward: Early on in the series, Morgan has a vision of her future daughter Moira, a character who doesn't appear until the final book.
49	%% * CantHoldHerLiquor: Morgan, the first time she drinks.
50	%% * {{Claustrophobia}}: Morgan experiences this in [[spoiler:Cal's secret witch room. This is tip off that he isn't as nice as he seems.]]
51	* DistantFinale: The final book is set years into the future, in which Morgan's daughter is herself a teenager, just beginning to understand her own powers.
52	%% * FirstLove: Cal, for Morgan, followed by Hunter, her SecondLove.
53	* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The International Council of Witches is more extra-governmental, answerable to no one. It's main job seems to be to track down witches using dark magick and stripping them of their powers--without a trial or any sort of chance to put forth a defense; Morgan derides them as the "hall monitors of Wicca."
54	* HalfHumanHybrid: It's [[spoiler:supposedly]] impossible for a female blood witch to reproduce with a male human, and male blood witches can reproduce with human females only if they will it. [[spoiler:Alisa Soto is one.]]
55	%% * ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: Morgan isn't used to being noticed by guys.
56	%% * IKnowYourTrueName: Key to Morgan's defeat of one of her major enemies.
57	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Ciaran is Morgan's real birth father.]] A distant version is seen later, with Origins with hints in that book and the reveal in the following book, Eclipse. Sort of. [[spoiler:It was Morgan learning her descent from the creator of the dark wave and later, the truth about Alisa's dead mother.]]
58	* LeftHanging: In one of the early books, Morgan is tailgated by someone in the car behind hers, causing her to spin off the road. We never discover who did this or why.
59	* LetterMotif: The initials '''M.R.''': Maeve Riordan, Morgan Rowlands, Moira Rowlands-- though oddly, that inital set seems to be recent, going by the initials carved on Morgan's athame.
60	* InstantExpert: There is a process called "tath meanma brach" which allows two witches to "mind-meld" together, thus transposing all of one's thoughts to the other. Morgan does this with Alyce, thus attaining years worth of knowledge and experience in a single evening. How convenient.
61	%% * {{Magick}}: Yeah, that's how they spell it.
62	%% * TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: An unfortunate side-effect of VoluntaryShapeshifting.
63	%% * MindOverMatter: Alisa Soto has an involuntary case of this.
64	%% * MuggleFosterParents: Morgan has a pair, not realizing she was adopted.
65	%% * OlderThanTheyLook: Selene
66	%% * PlatonicLifePartners: Hunter and Sky, who are also cousins, making them a play on BrotherSisterTeam.
67	* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Cal, who throws himself in front of his mother's magic in order to save Morgan]].
68	* {{Necromancer}}: Witches can speak with the dead by performing a very dangerous and forbidden spell. [[spoiler:Hunter's father is revealed to be doing this to speak to his late wife.]]
69	* PlayingWithFire: Morgan has a particular affinity with fire. She uses flames to scry, a process which is said to be very tricky (most use water or stones).
70	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: How the first dark wave was created. A combination of anti-Woodbane persecution, being spurned by the man she loves and being sentenced to death, Rose [=McEwan=] ends up levelling the next town over with it.]]
71	* RedStringOfFate: ''Muirn beatha dan''s are a blood witch's soulmate, who is also a blood witch. While love is usually implied, a good relationship is not—there are a number of characters who are the offspring of a one-night stand between muirn beatha dans.
72	%% * SupernaturalGoldEyes: Cal Blaire
73	* {{Telepathy}}: Blood witches can send "witch messages" telepathically. They can also [[Franchise/StarTrek mind-meld]].
74	* TearApartTugOfWar: The second book, ''The Coven'', begins with Morgan being confronted by her Catholic parents for continuing to practice Wicca. She retorts that she's a blood witch, and therefore they must be too. When they deny this, she jokes, "What am I, adopted?" only to be met with their OhCrap faces and realise ''[[ObliviousAdoption it's true]]''. She runs to find her birth certificate and confirm, only for her mother to try to snatch it from her. They struggle, and the document tears in half, but Morgan is holding the piece that proves it.
75	* UnwantedSpouse: Hunter's father felt this way towards his first wife, [[spoiler: Selene Belltower, Cal's mother.]]
76	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Seen later in the series as something only very powerful witches can achieve. [[spoiler:Guess who manages it first try.]]
77	%% * WrongGuyFirst
78	* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The 'older' forms of the names for the Clans could be considered this.

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