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* DesignatedHero: Ashley is a hero only in the sense he's less horrible than the people he's fighting, and mostly only because of Zora's influence.
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* SouthernGothic: A modernized example with Southern gentility overlooking crime, murder, sleaze, and scandal.
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* StepfordSnarker: Ashley's life really does suck. He's cursed with lycanthropy (that makes you a psychotic killer/cannibal rapist), murdered someone close to him ([[spoiler: his wife and daughter), is in love with a woman who considers them BetterAsFriends, and he has a huge number of enemies.
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* StepfordSnarker: Ashley's life really does suck. He's cursed with lycanthropy (that makes you a psychotic killer/cannibal rapist), murdered someone close to him ([[spoiler: his wife and daughter), daughter]]), is in love with a woman who considers them BetterAsFriends, and he has a huge number of enemies.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: How a lot of people feel about Spooks. They're right in the case of werewolves ([[DefectorFromDecadence with the exception of Ashley]]).
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* BerserkButton: Making racist slurs about Zora.
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* BetterAsFriends: Zora thinks this way about her and Ashley. Ashley is less than happy about it.
* BerserkButton: Making racist slurs aboutZora.Zora will make Ashley go CRAZY.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Ashley has these qualities.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Ashley has these qualities. For example, setting up an unbelievable but entirely sincere sounding plea to his (former) best friend to renew their friendship. Which is insincere but needed to prevent Ashley from being beaten half-to-death. Later, he uses said friend as muscle based on their ''friendship.''
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* NayTheist: Ashley has ''issues'' with God, despite the fact he knows for a fact he exists.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Fair Folk are mostly an oversexed extremely pretty bunch of rednecks.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Fair Folk are mostly an oversexed extremely pretty bunch of rednecks.
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* NayTheist: Ashley has ''issues'' with God, despite the fact he knows for a fact he exists.
exists. These mostly relate to the fact he's a damned monster who harmed those he loved most.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Fair Folk are mostly an oversexedextremely pretty bunch of abnormally pretty rednecks.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: The Fair Folk are mostly an oversexed
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves are psychotic killer-rapists who are AlwaysChaoticEvil. Ashley keeps this side suppressed with Zora's magic.
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* StepfordSnarker: Ashley's life really does suck.
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* StepfordSnarker: Ashley's life really does suck. He's cursed with lycanthropy (that makes you a psychotic killer/cannibal rapist), murdered someone close to him ([[spoiler: his wife and daughter), is in love with a woman who considers them BetterAsFriends, and he has a huge number of enemies.
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* TheVirus: Lycanthropy turns you into a ravening monster with irresitable urges. Unless, of course, you have mojo to keep it at bay like Zora does for Ashley.
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* HeelFaithTurn: Elijah went through one of these. Now he's a Jerkass.
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* HeelFaithTurn: Elijah went through one of these. Now he's a Jerkass.{{Jerkass}}.
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* TooDumnToLive: Ashley, at some points, implied to be a result of his DeathSeeker status.
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* TooDumnToLive: TooDumbToLive: Ashley, at some points, implied to be a result of his DeathSeeker status.
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They star the titular Zora Banks--a beautiful, Southern conjure woman of mixed race--as told through the eyes of her partner, Ash Owens, a pretty boy-redneck cursed with a monstrous alter ego. The pair of them attempt to navigate the complex web of supernatural crime, politics, and petty white-trash politics which their clients bring to their doorstep on a regular basis. The books are described by their author as a mixture of ''Series/TrueBlood'' and ''Series/Justified''.
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They star the titular Zora Banks--a beautiful, Southern conjure woman of mixed race--as told through the eyes of her partner, Ash Owens, a pretty boy-redneck cursed with a monstrous alter ego. The pair of them attempt to navigate the complex web of supernatural crime, politics, and petty white-trash politics which their clients bring to their doorstep on a regular basis. The books are described by their author as a mixture of ''Series/TrueBlood'' and ''Series/Justified''.
''Series/{{Justified}}''.
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The first book, ''Bad Mojo'' was released in 2014.
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The first book, ''Bad Mojo'' was released in 2014.
2014. It is published by Creator/RagnarokPublications.
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* AwfulTruth: [[spoiler: The Congressman killed his daughter in a human sacrifice ritual and covered it up.]]
** Ashley [[spoiler: killed his wife and child while under the influence of lycanthropy.]]
** Ashley [[spoiler: killed his wife and child while under the influence of lycanthropy.]]
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* DeathSeeker: Due to the HorribleTruth, Ashley wants to kill himself but can't bring himself to do it.
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* DeathSeeker: Due to the HorribleTruth, AwfulTruth, Ashley wants to kill himself but can't bring himself to do it.
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* HorribleTruth: [[spoiler: The Congressman killed his daughter in a human sacrifice ritual and covered it up.]]
** Ashley [[spoiler: killed his wife and child while under the influence of lycanthropy.]]
** Ashley [[spoiler: killed his wife and child while under the influence of lycanthropy.]]
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* DeathSeeker: Due to the HorribleSecret, Ashley wants to kill himself but can't bring himself to do it.
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* DeathSeeker: Due to the HorribleSecret, HorribleTruth, Ashley wants to kill himself but can't bring himself to do it.
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* HorribleSecret: [[spoiler: The Congressman killed his daughter in a human sacrifice ritual and covered it up.]]
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* HorribleSecret: HorribleTruth: [[spoiler: The Congressman killed his daughter in a human sacrifice ritual and covered it up.]]
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They star the titular Zora Banks--a beautiful, Southern conjure woman of mixed race--as told through the eyes of her partner, Ash Owens, a pretty boy-redneck cursed with a monstrous alter ego. The pair of them attempt to navigate the complex web of supernatural crime, politics, and petty white-trash politics which their clients bring to their doorstep on a regular basis. The books are described by their author as a mixture of ''Television/TrueBlood'' ''Series/TrueBlood'' and ''Television/Justified''.
''Series/Justified''.
* BerserkButton: Making racist slurs about Zora.
* CampGay: Mark is an extremely prissy hairdresser. Subverted when he reveals, while he is a prissy hairdresser and gay, he's also learned to be a mean bastard to rednecks who bully him.
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* DesignatedHero: Ashley is a hero only in the sense he's les horrible than the people he's fighting, and mostly only because of Zora's influence.
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* DeathSeeker: Due to the HorribleSecret, Ashley wants to kill himself but can't bring himself to do it.
* DesignatedHero: Ashley is a hero only in the sense he'sles less horrible than the people he's fighting, and mostly only because of Zora's influence.
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The ''Literature/ZoraBanks'' series by Shane Berryhill is a set of dark adult UrbanFantasy books set in Chattanooga, TN.
They star the titular Zora Banks--a beautiful, Southern conjure woman of mixed race--as told through the eyes of her partner, Ash Owens, a pretty boy-redneck cursed with a monstrous alter ego. The pair of them attempt to navigate the complex web of supernatural crime, politics, and petty white-trash politics which their clients bring to their doorstep on a regular basis. The books are described by their author as a mixture of ''Television/TrueBlood'' and ''Television/Justified''.
The first book, ''Bad Mojo'' was released in 2014.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Implied to be part of the appeal of Ashley.
* {{Antihero}}: Ashley is a cold-blooded mercenary who sleeps with his best friend's wife and constantly chases women while insisting (to himself) he's desperately in love with Zora.
* BlatantLies: Ashley only slept with Baby S****'s wife once and sincerely regrets it.
* TheBrute: Baby S*** is this to Ashley.
* CityOfAdventure: ''Chattanooga, TN'' of all places is a center for supernatural crime in the United States.
* DesignatedHero: Ashley is a hero only in the sense he's les horrible than the people he's fighting, and mostly only because of Zora's influence.
* EasilyForgiven: Baby S*** forgives Ashley sleeping with his wife and becomes his best friend again after one lie-filled conversation.
* FairCop: Matt is as handsome as Ashley.
* FantasticDrug: Bad Mojo is just one of the many ones on the market.
* FantasticRacism: Ashley really-really hates vampires, to a murderous degree.
* HandsomeLech: Ashley could be a trope-namer for this given he seems to be up to his eyeballs in willing fae women.
* HeelFaithTurn: Elijah went through one of these. Now he's a Jerkass.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Slightly more attention to the details of the religion than most, using correct terminology.
* {{HumanSacrifice}}: It turns out [[spoiler: The Congressman]] was up to this.
* HorribleSecret: [[spoiler: The Congressman killed his daughter in a human sacrifice ritual and covered it up.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ashley goes up and down about how much he loves Zora but sleeps with half the female cast.
** The anti-supernatural evangelicals practicing human sacrifice are a more egregious example.
* ManipulativeBastard: Ashley has these qualities.
* MoralityChain: If Zora didn't exist, Ashley's descent into evil would be measured in minutes.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're descendants of the Serpent of Eden and possessed of snake-like qualities.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They are intelligent and attractive if they've fed recently but become mindless if they go without human flesh.
* TheSnarkKnight: Ashley is an excellent example of these, considering everyone but Zora worthy of contempt.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Zora Banks seems to be the only decent supernatural in all of TN.
* StepfordSnarker: Ashley's life really does suck.
* UrbanFantasy: Set squarely in this genre.
* WretchedHive: Chattanooga, TN, a real-life city, has more murderous supernatural criminals than Prohibition Chicago.
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They star the titular Zora Banks--a beautiful, Southern conjure woman of mixed race--as told through the eyes of her partner, Ash Owens, a pretty boy-redneck cursed with a monstrous alter ego. The pair of them attempt to navigate the complex web of supernatural crime, politics, and petty white-trash politics which their clients bring to their doorstep on a regular basis. The books are described by their author as a mixture of ''Television/TrueBlood'' and ''Television/Justified''.
The first book, ''Bad Mojo'' was released in 2014.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Implied to be part of the appeal of Ashley.
* {{Antihero}}: Ashley is a cold-blooded mercenary who sleeps with his best friend's wife and constantly chases women while insisting (to himself) he's desperately in love with Zora.
* BlatantLies: Ashley only slept with Baby S****'s wife once and sincerely regrets it.
* TheBrute: Baby S*** is this to Ashley.
* CityOfAdventure: ''Chattanooga, TN'' of all places is a center for supernatural crime in the United States.
* DesignatedHero: Ashley is a hero only in the sense he's les horrible than the people he's fighting, and mostly only because of Zora's influence.
* EasilyForgiven: Baby S*** forgives Ashley sleeping with his wife and becomes his best friend again after one lie-filled conversation.
* FairCop: Matt is as handsome as Ashley.
* FantasticDrug: Bad Mojo is just one of the many ones on the market.
* FantasticRacism: Ashley really-really hates vampires, to a murderous degree.
* HandsomeLech: Ashley could be a trope-namer for this given he seems to be up to his eyeballs in willing fae women.
* HeelFaithTurn: Elijah went through one of these. Now he's a Jerkass.
* HollywoodVoodoo: Slightly more attention to the details of the religion than most, using correct terminology.
* {{HumanSacrifice}}: It turns out [[spoiler: The Congressman]] was up to this.
* HorribleSecret: [[spoiler: The Congressman killed his daughter in a human sacrifice ritual and covered it up.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Ashley goes up and down about how much he loves Zora but sleeps with half the female cast.
** The anti-supernatural evangelicals practicing human sacrifice are a more egregious example.
* ManipulativeBastard: Ashley has these qualities.
* MoralityChain: If Zora didn't exist, Ashley's descent into evil would be measured in minutes.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They're descendants of the Serpent of Eden and possessed of snake-like qualities.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They are intelligent and attractive if they've fed recently but become mindless if they go without human flesh.
* TheSnarkKnight: Ashley is an excellent example of these, considering everyone but Zora worthy of contempt.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Zora Banks seems to be the only decent supernatural in all of TN.
* StepfordSnarker: Ashley's life really does suck.
* UrbanFantasy: Set squarely in this genre.
* WretchedHive: Chattanooga, TN, a real-life city, has more murderous supernatural criminals than Prohibition Chicago.
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