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8	A series of ''New York Times'' bestselling fantasy books by Aprilynne Pike, featuring a young home-schooled girl named Laurel Sewell who transfers to public school, finds out she's actually a faerie changeling, falls in love with two boys, and fights trolls.
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10	The first three books are titled ''Wings'', ''Spells'' and ''Illusions''; the fourth one, ''Destined'', was released in 2012.
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13	!!These books provide examples of:
14	* AesopAmnesia: Laurel is unfortunately prone to this. She ignores her mentor Jamison's warning not to get complacent - ''twice'' - and Shar's warning (see WhatTheHellHero below) has no effect on her actions whatsoever.
15	* AllMythsAreTrue: Laurel is constantly finding faerie history behind various legends: ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', King Arthur, even Genesis.
16	* AlmostKiss: Laurel and Tamani are prone to these.
17	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Trolls. Laurel points out conscientiously that there ''might'' be good trolls, but neither she nor the reader has met one yet.
18	%%* {{Arcadia}}: Avalon.
19	%%* AscendedFangirl: Laurel's friend Chelsea.
20	%%* BettyAndVeronica: David, Laurel's human classmate, and Tamani, her faerie childhood friend.
21	%%* BigBrotherMentor: Shar to Tamani.
22	* BodyguardCrush: Tamani appoints himself Laurel's ''fear-gleididh'', or protector for life.
23	* ChangelingFantasy: Laurel finds out she is a "scion", selected to inherit her foster-parents' land and bring it into faerie possession.
24	* CharmPerson: The Spring faeries' only power, which only works on humans.
25	* ChekhovsGun: "How long can you hold your breath?"
26	%%* ChekhovsGunman: Klea.
27	%%* DanceOfRomance: Laurel and Tamani in ''Spells''.
28	* DancesAndBalls: A lot of the action seems to happen coming home from them.
29	%%* DeusExMachina: Klea, twice.
30	%%* DoesNotLikeGuns: Laurel.
31	* EnemyMine: [[spoiler:Klea, a faerie working with trolls.]]
32	* ExtranormalInstitute: The Fall Faerie Academy, though of course it's quite normal in Avalon.
33	* FantasticCasteSystem: Faeries are divided according to the season of their birth: Winter (the ruling class, extremely powerful and rare); Fall (healers and scientists, including Laurel); Summer (entertainers, illusionists) and Spring (the working class, including Tamani). Unlike some examples, the Spring faeries are still very well off -- no unemployment, poverty, etc. -- but the protocol still grates on Laurel's democratic nerves.
34	%%* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Laurel and David's inside joke.
35	%%* ForcefulKiss: Tamani does this to Laurel several times.
36	* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Mara, a classmate of Laurel's at the Academy who holds a grudge against her for winning the position of the scion over her head.
37	* FreakinessShame: David calls Laurel's blossom "sexy".
38	* GranolaGirl: Laurel is a vegan raised by hippie parents who believe in natural medicine. Justified, as she's a sentient plant and can't even digest animal foods.
39	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Faeries speaking Gaelic; their closest connection to the human world is a manor in Scotland.
40	* GreenEyedMonster: David and Tamani are fiercely jealous of each other, as are Laurel and Yuki in the third book.
41	* HeKnowsTooMuch: The reason why Barnes, the BigBad of the first two books, has [[spoiler:David and Laurel]] thrown in the river.
42	%%* HellBentForLeather: Klea.
43	* HoldYourHippogriffs: Plant-related faerie idioms such as "same fruit, different bough".
44	* HookedUpAfterwards: [[spoiler:Chelsea and David, though it's subverted in the epilogue when it's revealed that Chelsea and David eventually broke up.]]
45	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each of the books has a plural OneWordTitle, except for the last, a VerbedTitle, which is a OneWordTitle subtrope.
46	** Wings
47	** Spells
48	** Illusions
49	** Destined
50	* IHaveAFamily: Shar, admonishing Laurel to take her mission seriously: "I have a daughter, did you know that? (...) And I'd like her to have a father for at least the next hundred years, thank you very much."
51	* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Chelsea to David when he falls in love with Laurel. [[spoiler: Though after ''Illusions'', she might have a chance with him after all ... ]]
52	* InternalizedCategorism: Tamani internalizes his Spring faerie status, much to Laurel's annoyance.
53	* ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler: Yuki is only at Laurel's school to spy on her for Klea, but she actually develops feelings for Tamani, who only seduces her to get more information on Klea's plans.]]
54	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: In the final book, David chooses to erase his memories of what happened at the final battle to defend Avalon.]]
55	%%* LoveDodecahedron: Ryan/Chelsea/David/Laurel/Tamani/Yuki.
56	* MeaningfulName: One meaning of the Japanese name Yuki is "snow", and [[spoiler: Yuki is a winter faerie.]]
57	* MementoMacGuffin: The baby ring Tamani gives Laurel.
58	%%* TheMole: [[spoiler: Yuki.]]
59	%%* MuggleFosterParents: The Sewells.
60	%%* NerdsAreSexy: David.
61	* NeutralFemale: Subverted. [[spoiler: When David and Tamani get into a brawl over Laurel, she breaks up the fight, tells them she's through with both of them, storms off - and spends the rest of the day kissing Tamani.]]
62	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Laurel never does get a human period, but the faerie equivalent - growing a blossom out of her back - is discussed in detail.
63	%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler: Yuki, the Winter faerie.]]
64	* OlderThanTheyLook: Faeries can reach up to two hundred years in age.
65	%%* OurFairiesAreDifferent
66	%%* PetMonstrosity: Bess.
67	%%* PlantPerson: Faeries.
68	%%* ShirtlessScene: Tamani and David each get at least one.
69	%%* SingleTargetSexuality: Tamani feels this way about Laurel.
70	* SnicketWarningLabel: In the end of the final book in the series, the author warns the readers that they shouldn't read the epilogue if they don't want to spoil the happy ending. [[spoiler: David and Chelsea get together, but break up. David decides he wants to erase all memories of meeting Laurel, getting involved in the faerie world, and killing all the trolls.]]
71	* SwordInTheStone: The original Sword in the Stone can be found in Avalon, and only humans can touch it.
72	* TestKiss: Laurel shares a literal, scientific test kiss with each of her boys: David, to find out if she exhales oxygen like a plant, and later Tamani, to see if she can "sense" him with her Fall faerie powers.
73	* TookALevelInBadass: In ''Spells'', David starts bodybuilding and reveals his skill with a gun in order to be more helpful to Laurel.
74	* VerbedTitle: The final book, "Destined".
75	* WhatTheHellHero: Shar delivers a stinging speech to Laurel about the way she's been flirting with Tamani while still dating David.
76	* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Laurel's foster-mother struggles with the idea of Laurel being a faerie, although she does come to accept it later on.

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