Sunday, September 11, 2022

Off the Bookshelf: TRAIL OF LIGHTNING, by Rebecca Roanhorse

 

Audiobook, Audible exclusive, The Sixth World series

Narrated by Tanis Parenteau

If you're looking for a suspenseful adventure that immerses you in Navajo mythology, while giving you monster hunters and epic battles ... this is the place.

Maggie is our heroine, living in a post-apocalyptic world where much of the United States has been wiped out by flood, and the former Navajo reservation has survived. And changed. Supernatural creatures and monsters walk among them. Maggie is both blessed and cursed with clan powers, magical abilities that she uses in her quest to fight monsters.

She's been badly hurt, emotionally, her clan powers awakening through tragedy, harassed and teased and given cryptic, questionable help by the trickster, Coyote. Betrayed and abandoned by the one she dared to love, she doesn't trust, doesn't open herself to offers of friendship. But she must learn to trust and take chances to come out of this dangerous adventure alive. 

Fascinating, fun, grim -- and forcing me to find every chance to get away and keep listening to the book. I hope there are more adventures, because yeah, too many threads and threats left hanging!


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