War for the Oaks is enjoyable urban fantasy with a rock 'n roll backbone. When I opened the book, the first thing I noticed was that the chapters are all named after pop song titles. The protagonist, Eddi McCandry, is a singer and guitarist, and many passages in the book focus on the process of rehearsing and playing with a rock 'n roll band. Bull gets the details down accurately (and colorfully), but it's still true that "writing about music is like dancing about achitecture" — it's just not possible to convey in words what it's like to create music.

I enjoyed the book, but in the same genre, I liked Goldstein's Dark Cities Underground a bit better, and I'd recommend most of Jonathan Carroll's novels over this one.

Thanks, Jeff, for recommending this one. It was fun.