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=== These books provide examples of: ===
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Laurel is unfortunately prone to this. She ignores her mentor Jamison's warning not to get complacent - ''twice'' - and Shar's warning (see [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below) has no effect on her actions whatsoever.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: Laurel is constantly finding faerie history behind various legends: ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', King Arthur, even Genesis.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Laurel and Tamani are prone to these.
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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Klea.
* [[Dance of Romance]]: Laurel and Tamani in ''Spells''.
* [[
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: Klea, twice.
* [[Does Not Like Guns]]: Laurel.
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* [[Granola Girl]]: Laurel is a vegan raised by hippie parents who believe in natural medicine. Justified, as she's a sentient plant and can't even digest animal foods.
* [[Gratuitious Foreign Language]]: Faeries speaking Gaelic; their closest connection to the human world is a manor in Scotland.
* [[Green
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Laurel.
* [[He Knows Too Much]]: The reason why Barnes, the [[Big Bad]] of the first two books, has {{spoiler|David and Laurel}} thrown in the river.
* [[Hell
* [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]: Plant-related faerie idioms such as "same fruit, different bough".
* [[I Have a Family]]: Shar, admonishing Laurel to take her mission seriously: "I have a daughter, did you know that? (...) And I'd like her to have a father for at least the next hundred years, thank you very much."
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* [[Neutral Female]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|When David and Tamani get into a brawl over Laurel, she breaks up the fight, tells them she's through with both of them, storms off - and spends the rest of the day kissing Tamani.}}
* [[No Periods Period]]: Laurel never does get a human period, but the faerie equivalent - growing a blossom out of her back - is discussed in detail.
* [[Not
* [[The Obi
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Faeries can reach up to two hundred years in age.
* [[Our Fairies Are Different]]
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: In ''Spells'', David starts bodybuilding and reveals his skill with a gun in order to be more helpful to Laurel.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Red and Scarface.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Shar delivers a stinging speech to Laurel about the way she's been flirting with Tamani while still dating David.
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]: Laurel's foster-mother struggles with the idea of Laurel being a faerie, although she does come to accept it later on.
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