Angela Spencer

Emma Bull Delivers a Tightly Crafted Narrative with Deeply Layered Meaning in War for the Oaks

(Originally published at Associated Content. You can read it here or there.)

In War for the Oaks, Emma Bull takes a simple premise to draft a tale that unfolds the deeper you get into it. The protagonist, Eddi McCandry, is a singer and guitar player in a rock band that gets sucked into an ancient war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. By binding a mortal to the conflict, it makes both sides as mortal as a human. The stakes become much higher and the risks each side will take much steeper.
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