A War for the Oaks: Urban Fantasy Romance

Categories: Rediscoveries , Science Fiction & Fantasy , Staff Picks , Fiction

Now that Prince is calling himself Prince again, maybe it’s time to revisit this fantasy set in the 1980s music scene of Minneapolis. 

Eddi McCandry is a rocker chick in a struggling band when she is unwillingly recruited as a pawn in a faerie war.  A handsome phouka (who is sometimes dog, sometimes “human”) explains that she has been magically bound to appear on the battlefield on May Eve, as human blood is necessary to make the ritual combat real.  In the meantime, the phouka will be her bodyguard, because the dark side of the faerie court will be after her. 

Since Eddi hates being told what to do, how will she cope with her unwanted guard dog, either in his alarming animal form or in his alarmingly sexy human one?  And how will she keep body and soul together till May Eve, since her band has broken up? 

By starting a new band, of course, with some very unusual musicians.  And getting ready for the ultimate battle of the bands.

All you fans of fantasy romances should give War for the Oaks a try.  And if you haven’t discovered urban fantasy as a genre, that’s another good reason to pick this up.  Not to mention all the great descriptions of those kooky eighties clothes and the kickin’ eighties soundtrack.