For an hour, an evening, or months at a time, so long as the chosen mortal is alive and breathing on the battlefield, all the present fae are momentarily as mortal as you or I.Įddi is their chosen mortal, and no matter what anyone says, this isn’t an honor. But when death is necessary, when a battle truly matters, they bring a mortal onto the battlefield. Violence is a hobby of the fae, as they heal fast and rarely die. War is brewing between the Seelie and Unseelie courts. She’s never read an urban fantasy novel before, and she doesn’t know how these stories go. It’s funny, because we’ve all read urban fantasies, we’d all know a pooka or a Sidhe when we see one (or at least like to think we would), but Eddi doesn’t.
She might be recently unemployed, but she’s not crazy. When a Phouka shows up in her life and announces he is her new bodyguard against the Unseelie, Eddi tells him to get lost and threatens to call the cops. Good thing on both fronts, or Eddi would never get the chance to start an even better band with her best friend Carla. Her boyfriend Stuart is a mess, the band isn’t playing what the bar patrons want to hear, a both a band break-up and a romantic one follow in quick succession. The novel opens with last show of Eddi McCandry’s band. I kept trying to read bits and pieces of it out-loud to my other half, who kept telling me to quit that, because he wanted to read it next. Lyrical and funny, shadowy and mysterious, War For The Oaks grabbed me on page one and never let go. People, t his is what Urban Fantasy can be. I wish this had been the book that had introduced me to Urban Fantasy. I wish I’d read War For The Oaks years ago.
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