Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) in Our Shared Shelf

Jul 03, 2018 Xanthe rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-fiction, rereads, native-american, horror, post-apocalyptic, road-trip, read-in-2018, read-in-2019

I just reread this so I could remember what the heck happened before reading the sequel and discovered I hadn’t squee’d about it in a review the first time around. Well, I’ll take care of that now! Ugh, this is just so good, so satisfying as an entry in a pretty tired genre. Trail of Lightning hits a lot of the post-apocalyptic tropes, but then refreshes them by the specificity the Diné characters and setting, a world where after the Big Water (ecological collapse, sounds pretty farfetched, huh… ...more

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Nov 27, 2018 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, american-fiction, sw-nps-trip, native-indigenous-lit, feminism

I really liked this. I couldn't decide whether it's fantasy or sci-fi- it's a dystopia, but not so sciencey, and more about, like, powers. The dystopian premise is fascinating: it's set in Dinetah, the former Navajo Reservation, which has built a giant wall around itself to keep out climate change catastrophe brought on by fracking, pipelines, etc. It is a sweet, sweet, intentional reversal of contemporary wall-building thinking vis-a-vis whom the wall is supposed to keep out. The main character ...more

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Jul 10, 2018 Jennifer rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: earcs, debut, urban-fantasy, supernatural, library-book, ebook, to-be-reviewed, mythology, magic, reread

A gritty, well-written debut novel! Full of imagery, this is a post-apocalyptic novel I wasn't dreading to read (I'm not a dystopian fan), even if I was sad to hear that my hometown of (view spoiler). This came in my June PageHabit box, and it had been on my list for a while, so I was happy to open the box and find this! It's a pretty quick read, and now I face the long wait for the next book. For all that I've been told I have Nativ ...more

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Mar 01, 2021 Sandy Jones rated it it was amazing

This book is AMAZING! It’s hard to put down. I love Maggie and Kai. The differences between this dystopian future and others I have read are fascinating and compelling. You should definitely read this!

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Sep 09, 2018 Cindywho rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy-sf

Excellent post-apocalypic YA adventure with monsters and gods of the Diné. Maggie has a violent clan gift for fighting and killing monsters, but she needs help with the machinations of supernatural beings and with repairing her own heart.

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