It will change the way you hear and see your own daily life.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. It's about real love and loyalty, about real music and musicians, about false glamour and true art. While not as strong as Bulls contemporary fantasy classic War for the Oaks, this is a winning book. As a Minneapolis native who loved dancing at First Avenue and live music at 7th Street. War for the Oaks Being the only person who sees the other-worldly creatures, Eddi McCandry plunges into excitement and terror when she becomes a pawn in a. Originally published by Ace in 1987, this reprint of a minor fantasy cult. Now, more than her own survival is at risk-and her own preferences, musical and personal, are very much beside the point.īy turns tough and lyrical, fabulous and down-to-earth, War for the Oaks is a fantasy novel that's as much about this world as about the other one. Orb, 13.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-7653-0034-8. Then, walking home through downtown Minneapolis on a dark night, she finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie folk. But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse.

What screams big hair and power ballads more than a story where the good guys beat the bad guys using the power of Rock That is the basis of this fun foray into Faerie. Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.Įddi McCandry sings rock and roll. Emma Bulls War for the Oaks is one of the most 80s things Ive ever read.

War for the oaks by emma bull