The guy was in his final week of training and he didn’t need it. I was supposed to be training a new employee as I read this, and he just would not stop talking. Love him.Įven aside from the characters, the story was a page-turner. I wasn’t too sure about him at first, but he grows throughout the book, and we get to know him better, and I was a fan for life by about the halfway point. Can you say book crush? He’s funny, sarcastic, dashing, romantic, a rebel, strong, tough, just enough of a bad boy, and he’s learning more about what it means to be human. Her friend Carla is much the same way, except possibly even more loyal and more likely to give her friends a figurative kick in the pants when they need it. She gives her all for her friends and refuses to give up even when everyone else is telling her that what she wants to do is impossible. She can take charge when that’s necessary too. She’s not perfect, but she’s big enough to apologize when it’s necessary. Eddi is a talented, creative musician with a true gift.
They’re people (or not) that I would love to know in real life. I don’t mean that it’s a knockoff, it’s just something that I enjoyed for a lot of the same reasons that I enjoy de Lint. This is something very much in the same vein as de Lint’s best work. If you know me, and maybe if you don’t, you know that Charles de Lint is my favorite author.
She attracts the attention of the Seelie Court and her life is turned upside down. Dick Award), Finder (a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award), and (with Stephen Brust) Freedom and Necessity the collection Double Feature (with Will Shetterly) and the picture book The Princess and the Lord of Night.Eddi McCandry is a rocker with a big heart. Other books by Emma Bull include the novels Falcon, Bone Dance (second honors, Philip K. War for the Oaks won the Locus Magazine award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society Award. Now she struggles to build a new life and new band when she might not even survive till the first rehearsal. Eddi isn't interested-but she doesn't have a choice. The two creatures are one and the same: a phouka, a faerie being who has chosen Eddi to be a mortal pawn in the age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
Intelligent and skillfully written, with sharply drawn, sympathetic characters, War for the Oaks is about love and loyalty, life and death, and creativity and sacrifice.Įddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself running through the Minneapolis night, pursued by a sinister man and a huge, terrifying dog. Bull's concept, War for the Oaks is well worth reading. Unlike most of the rock & rollin' fantasies that have ripped off Ms. Emma Bull's debut novel, War for the Oaks, placed her in the top tier of urban fantasists and established a new subgenre.
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