Title: Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World #1)
Author: Rebecca Roanhorse
Published by: Saga Press
Released: 2018
Source: Library
Summary: While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.
Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much larger and more terrifying than anything she could imagine.
Maggie reluctantly enlists the aid of Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they travel to the rez to unravel clues from ancient legends, trade favors with tricksters, and battle dark witchcraft in a patchwork world of deteriorating technology.
As Maggie discovers the truth behind the disappearances, she will have to confront her past—if she wants to survive.
Welcome to the Sixth World. ( Synopsis From Goodreads )
My Thoughts: This was a pretty fun book. I liked it. It was very fast-paced, a lot of action, and a very interesting world. I really liked how it focused on Native American culture, myths, and people. It's a segment of the population that I don't really get to read about that much.
In a way, it reminded me of American Gods by Neil Gaiman. If you've read American Gods, I think you'll get what connection I'm talking about.
Trail of Lightning was a mix of urban fantasy with a post-apocalyptic spin. I don't know if I really needed the post-apocalyptic spin to it though. Maybe I needed to see the disaster and devastation for myself to really feel it. There's supposed to have been this monster flood that wiped out a good portion of the world, but the Native Americans ended up building a wall, cutting themselves off from the disaster. I don't know if I needed that spin to it. Not a lot was done with it, it was just there.
There were a lot of Native American terms sprinkled through the text, which was cool, but I had no idea what most of them meant. It needed some explanation, maybe a glossary. I don't like struggling to figure out what things mean.
I liked the characters. Maggie was very serious, kind of aloof. Hopefully in the next book, she loosens up a little. I enjoyed Kai. I liked the dynamic of Maggie and Kai. I thought their backstories were pretty cool. The stuff we found out about them was interesting to read.
I do feel like the plot could have been a little tighter. Most of the book was them traveling from place to place. Sometimes I didn't get why they would have to go to this place or that place, it was only at the end that everything really came together for that WHAM finale.
I liked Trail of Lightning a lot and can't wait to read the next book in the series. I really like having a Native American book written by a Native American author. It's got a cool world, monster slayers, action, danger, magic, and I'm here for it.
BOOKCITEMENT LEVEL 3.8/5
Pretty Cool
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