![]() Its setting is remarkable, wonderful and strange, but so too are those of many other books. ![]() Its characters are typical of the monster hunter genre too: not always likeable, but always loveable. The basic plot arc could belong to almost any book within the genre. What separates it from other monster hunter books isn’t its plot. Trail of Lightning, the first in the Sixth World series by debut novelist Rebecca Roanhorse, is one of those books that grabs you by the hand and makes you listen. The further they dig to find the truth behind the monster, the more Maggie is forced to recognize that confronting her past may be the key to solving the mystery. Who created the monster that abducted the girl, and why? Maggie’s investigation leads her to reluctantly team up with Kai Arviso, an overly charismatic young medicine man with powers of his own. ![]() When her search for a missing girl and her monstrous captor goes south, Maggie is left with questions. Preternaturally deadly monster hunter Maggie Hoskie is one of the byproducts of the supernatural rebirth of Dinétah. ![]() After a sudden climate apocalypse, one of the only places left intact was Dinétah, a former Navajo reservation that has become a land where gods and supernatural heroes walk among humans. ![]()
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