History Literature / OverTheHillsOfGreen

* HumanMomNonhumanDad: Played straight with both Yaret’s progenitors (tragic version), and Yaret and Anna themselves (happy version).

* YourCheatingHeart: Anna goes out of her way to justify her conscious decision to cheat on her fiancé with her patient.

* BiTheWay: Played straight (pun intended) with both Anna and Yaret, having had romantic and sexual experiences with their own sex and treating it matter-of-factly.

* SignsOfTheEndTimes: The natural disaster New York City experiences makes Anna suspect if it may be a sign of the culling Yaret alluded to.

* BiTheWay: Played straight (pun intended) with both Anna and Yaret, both having had romantic and sexual experiences with their own sex and both treating it matter-of-factly.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yaret is described as strikingly handsome, possessing almost feminine beauty. Played straight when [[spoiler:Yaret is mocked by thugs for wearing pink socks]], but subverted when his beauty is implied to be, literally, in the eye of the beholder [[spoiler:a nurse at the ward sees him as a "sad scrawny kid."]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Anna has to follow a traditional folk tale quest to find her love. Also, Yaret’s quest for his love involves major sacrifices, not the least of them including getting a humiliating job.

* TheFairFolk: The Elves of legend — the Alva — are referred to as a technologically advanced extraterrestrial humanoid race with a penchant for genetic experimentation.

* AlienAbduction: Implied that the cases of fairy ravishing are in reality abductions by an advanced humanoid race of Alva.

** Anna [[spoiler:struggles with abandonment issues due to her father’s death and mother’s remarriage; with debilitating anxiety attacks as a result of her brush with the Otherworld; her own feelings of professional and personal inadequacy and shame.]]
** Anna’s mother [[spoiler:survived post-partum depression after the birth of Anna’s half-brother.]]

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Played straight with Yaret, but subverted with Anna, when one of the main sources for her neurosis is the loss of her father as a young teen.

* TheBechdelTest: Anna and Genie nearly breaking the FourthWall while explicitly discussing the Bechdel Test, lampshading the fact that they may be failing it.

* CityOfAdventure: New York City: the city's landmarks serve as key locations for the more fantastical aspects of the story.

* BiTheWay: Played straight (pun intended) with both Anna and Yaret, both having had romantic and sexual experiences with their own sex and both seeing it as no big deal.

* AllJustADream: Subverted, when Anna’s belief that the Otherworld was a dream is proven otherwise; also, the monsters Anna thinks believes to be imaginary turn out to be real. Further zigzagged in the end [[spoiler:when Scout Semille implies that, as one of the several possible scenarios, Anna might be hallucinating the events of the novel while in reality she is being institutionalized.]]

* BiTheWay: Played straight (pun intended) with both Anna and Yaret.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yaret is described as strikingly handsome, possessing almost feminine beauty.

* LeavingYouToFindMyself: Anna breaking it off with Ted.

* UnreliableNarrator: John Doe, when he relays the life of Yaret Fairfax to Anna.

* CityOfAdventure: New York City.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Yaret.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Anna and Yaret.

* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: Yaret.

* SpaceElves: The Alva.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Anna and Yaret throughout the story.

* AkashicRecords: Yaret claims to have access to his spaceship through his dreaming, which allows him to process and retain new information at extreme efficiency.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Subverted, when Yaret suggests that human mythology is not to be trusted. Further zigzagged, when Yaret arbitrarily confirms and/or denies the existence of certain mythological characters in real life.

* TheBechdelTest: Anna and Genie explicitly discuss the Bechdel Test, lampshading the fact that they may be failing it, nearly breaking the FourthWall.

* CivilizationDestroyer: Yaret, when he — unsuccessfully — tries to blackmail Anna into a relationship with the threat of culling humanity.
* CultureClash: Yaret has a fish-out-of-water experience in the modern day New York City, to a somewhat comedic effect.

* ThePowerOfLove: Subverted, when Yaret fails to make Anna truly love him.

** Anna struggles with abandonment issues due to her father’s death and mother’s remarriage; with debilitating anxiety attacks as a result of her brush with the Otherworld; her own feelings of professional and personal inadequacy and shame.
** Anna’s mother survived post-partum depression after the birth of Anna’s half-brother.
** Anna’s stepfather, James, is a recovering alcoholic, struggling with the death of his police partner.
** John Doe has amnesia presumably due to physical and sexual abuse.
** Yaret Fairfax has a predictably troubled and violent past, consistent with growing up in the Dark Ages society.
** Emily is an orphan, presumably an abuse survivor.

* HereThereBeDragons: Emily, whose otherkin self is a dragon.

* [[ShowWithinAShow Book Within a Book]]: On advice of her therapist, Anna writes the account of her Otherworld adventure in the form of a children’s book''[[Literature/PrintInTheSnowAnnasAdventureInTheWyssunWord Print In The Snow: Anna’s Adventure In The Wyssun World]]''.

The novel exists at the intersection of several genres, including literary fiction, fantasy, romance and mystery, alternatively utilizing and deconstructing recognizable tropes specific to each of the genres.

''Over The Hills Of Green'' is a speculative fiction novel by Creator/EVSvetova. It is the second book in The Green Hills trilogy.

* YourCheatingHeart: Anna goes out of her way to justify her conscious decision to cheat on her fiancé; with her patient.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Subverted, when Yaret suggests that humanity mythology is not to be trusted. Further zigzagged, when Yaret arbitrarily confirms and/or denies the existence of certain mythological characters in real life.

* DreamLand: Otherworld. Yaret insists the dream is a memory.

''Over The Hills Of Green'' is a speculative fiction novel by Creator/E.V.Svetova. It is the second book in The Green Hills trilogy.

''Over The Hills Of Green'' is a speculative fiction novel by Creator/EVSvetova. It is the second book in The Green Hills trilogy.

* CantLiveWithoutYou: Yaret’s nuptial gift to Anna is a self-imposed geis in effect causing him to die if spending an extended time away from her.

* CivilizationDestroyer: Yaret, when he—unsuccessfully—tries to blackmail Anna into a relationship with the threat of culling humanity.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Most characters cope with past trauma.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yaret is described as strikingly handsome, with almost feminine beauty.

* TheFairFolk: Elves are referred to as a technologically advanced extraterrestrial humanoid race with a penchant for genetic experimentation.

* HumansAreSpecial: According to Yaret, humans are the only race capable of “making love,” as in, literally, produce the energy of love out of nothing. Deconstructed, when Anna mercilessly mocks the idea, only to wish for the ability later.

* ParentalAbandonment: Between Anna’s uninvolved father, who died when she was a young teen, and her self-involved mother, who placed her in the position of caretaker, Anna doesn’t have much of a positive family model. Subverted with Anna’s stepfather James, who steps up quite well.

* YourCheatingHeart: Anna goes out of her way to justify her conscious decision to cheat on her fiancé with her patient.