Trail of Lightning

I've been excitedly waiting for this debut novel ever since I read Rebecca Roanhorse's story, Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience.The book did not disappoint.When most of the world flooded, the elders raised a magical wall around Diné land.  The gods and mythological beings are back.  Some people are manifesting clan powers.  Maggie's clan powers make her a powerful monster killer.  She was taken in and trained by a mythological warrior after a tragedy until he left her a year ago.  Now she is a deeply emotionally damaged monster hunter for hire.Now she is on the trail of monsters that she has never seen before.  They are wiping out whole towns.This book reminds me a lot of the early seasons of the TV show Supernatural, if the lead was a no-nonsense Diné woman driving a 1972 pickup.  There are different groups of monster hunters.  There is even a safe house/bar/weapons depot/first aid station run by a older black woman and her children.I loved a scene in a nightclub where Maggie is able to see the patrons as embodiments of their clan powers.  That is the type of imagination that I love to see in books.The ending is magnificent and just a little bit of a cliffhanger.  I'm looking forward to the next book in 2019.(There is a lot of graphic violence depicted including violence against children so if that bothers you a lot you might want to skip this one.)This review was originally posted on Based On A True Story