Line #30 Literature/AcrossTheGreatBarrier


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2	Second book of the ''Literature/FrontierMagic'' series by Creator/PatriciaCWrede.
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4	Eff could be a powerful magician if she wanted to. Except she's not sure she wants that kind of responsibility. Everyone keeps waiting for her to do something amazing -- or to fail in a spectacular way. Worse, her twin brother, Lan, a powerful double [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh son]], is jealous of all the attention she's been getting. Even as Eff protests that she's just an ordinary girl, she's asked to travel past the Barrier Spell with one of the new professors at her father's school. The land west of the Barrier is full of dangers, both magical and wild. Eff will need to use all her strength--magical and otherwise--to come safely back home.
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6	!! This book provides examples of:
7	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Eff's teachers and classmates bully her after she ends the mirror bug plague.
8	%%* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Firefoxes
9	* AmbiguousSituation: Eff doesn't know if Brant is an ExtremeDoormat and letting the neighbors bully their children, or if he's trying his best but the other Rationalist kids are too cruel. The same goes for him stopping Rennie from doing magic on the side. He's genuinely dedicated to his belief that a life without magic is healthier, but Rennie accuses him that there's some spite behind him busting her.
10	* BerserkButton: Wash has a thing about settlers doing their protection spells properly.
11	%%* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't piss off Wash
12	* BlessedWithSuck: Lan finds out that there's a downside to having so much power. [[spoiler:He accidentally causes an explosion in class when experimenting]].
13	%%* BreakTheHaughty
14	%%* BrokenAce
15	%%* CareerBuildingBlunder
16	%%* DeterminedHomesteader: Mr Carpenter.
17	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rennie's decision to elope with Brant and move with him to the Rationalist outpost shows more consequences of her thoughtlessness. In addition to raising a family when they're too young and he has the pressure as a prominent Rationalist spokesman, he gets wise to her doing little magic on the side. On principle, he makes her stop, which means the mosquitoes and annoying bugs invade their home. Rennie also didn't consider that her kids would face FantasticRacism merely for the fact that she practices magic.
18	%%* DreamingOfThingsToCome
19	%%* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy
20	%%* DreamingTheTruth
21	%%* EnergyAbsorption: [[spoiler:The medusa lizards]]
22	%%* EnragedByIdiocy: Prof. Torgeson
23	* EveryoneIsArmed: Beyond the border enchantment that keeps magical and pleistocene animals out of the settled areas, being armed is a basic necessity of survival. This is apparent as soon as one enters the very first frontier settlement just outside the barrier.
24	%%* EyeBeam: With a [[spoiler:third eye]] no less!
25	* FantasticFlora: Magical plants are a staple of the setting. Sometimes as staple foodstuffs, even.
26	%%* FantasticScience
27	%%* FearlessFool
28	%%* ForScience
29	%%* TheFundamentalist: The Rationalists at Oak River are slipping into this
30	* GermanicEfficiency: The leader of the saber-cat hunting group is vaguely Aryan-looking and comes from a settlement with a German name. He's very efficient about the whole business.
31	* HappyEndingOverride: When Eff visited Rennie and Brant the first time in the previous book, the two seem to be HappilyMarried and Rennie is still doing some magic on the side. Here, he apparently got wise to it and so there's no more bug repellant charms or such. In addition, their children are bullied by others for the crime of Rennie having done magic and are blamed for a potential plague. This leads to Rennie accusing Brant of being an ExtremeDoormat, and the two have more tension when Eff visits them again.
32	%%* HandBlast
33	%%* HeroicBSOD
34	* HopeSproutsEternal: The grub-eaten land is slowly recovering from the mirror-bug plague.
35	* HowUnscientific: Torgeson has a problem with publishing untested hypotheses.
36	%%* LadyOfAdventure:
37	%%** Professor Torgeson.
38	%%** Eff is also coming to her own in this respect.
39	%%* LeeroyJenkins: Giles Carpenter, with the expected result for his family.
40	%%* LifeEnergy
41	%%* MasterApprenticeChain: The wooden pendant makes this explicit with Wash and Eff
42	%%* {{Medusa}}
43	%%* MonstersThatEatOtherMonsters
44	* MrExposition: Wash about Promised Land settlement
45	%%* NatureIsNotNice
46	%% * NorseByNorsewest: Professor Torgeson
47	* OldMaid: Allie starts worrying about not getting any younger when Mr. Boden starts walking Eff home.
48	%%* PowerCrutch
49	%%* PrinciplesZealot: Oak River's settlers
50	%%* TheProfessor
51	%%* RecurringDreams
52	%%* SawedOffShotgun
53	%%* ScienceHero
54	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Against animals because they are immune to magic.
55	* SingleSpecimenSpecies: A few things in the menagerie. They hope to change this.
56	%%* TakenForGranite
57	%%* {{Whatevermancy}}: Geomancy
58	%%* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Torgeson about the mammoth
59	%%* TheWildWest
60	%%* WildWilderness

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