Yet this fantastical world continues to be curiously confined to the backseat as Jared juggles with more pressing concerns: staying sober, housed, employed, and under the radar of his enemies, magical and otherwise.
As he seeks to understand his growing powers, Jared becomes a magnet for an ever-expanding crew of mystical entities including, but not limited to, ancient otter people, a ghostly octopus, and a sasquatch disguised as a human with the temperament of Willie Nelson (“for a supernatural being, he was wearing a lot of earthy coloured M.E.C. After the first books dawdled through the set-up, this book gleefully revs into supernatural and psychedelic action and keeps up that pace through to its giddy final battle.Īs is helpfully recapped in the novel’s opening chapters, teen protagonist Jared has become fully aware of his abilities, helped (or not) by the looming presence of his father Wee’jit, a 500-something-year-old Trickster of Indigenous legend.
Spiritual beings, extraordinary powers, and jokes about Frozen are unleashed with abandon in the third and final instalment of Eden Robinson’s groundbreaking Trickster saga.
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