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Trailer Park Trickster by David R. Slayton

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rellimreads's review

5.0

This book builds off a LOT of events from book 1, White Trash Warlock - so you’ll want to read/listen to that first. Also this review may contain spoilers to the first book.

Rant first: This ends with a cliffhanger.

philibin's review

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

(3.75 Stars)

If you do not like cliff-hanger endings, you shouldn't read this book... unless you plan on immediately starting the third book in the series!

This is a good story, well written, decent character growth, and plausible world-building.

tekie's review against another edition

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4.0

Thank you to Blackstone Publishing and David Slayton for the ARC of this book!
What a wild ride the second book to Adam Binders story was! Slayton has always entangled magic within his words and this book is no different. Vic and Adam’s story, though told separately, was held together with a bond that just radiates off the page. I loved the mystery of it all, and though Adam was doing less magic in this book, we still were able to see the Other Side and all its wonder. I felt this was important because it allowed the reader to get that connection Adam so desperately needed with his own family instead of finding it elsewhere (like he had so many time’s when he was younger). It created that much needed family development and care that Adam deserves. Slayton leaves us on another cliffhanger that parallels so similarity to how the first book left off that, in a way, it feels like it was always meant to end there. An Ouroboros— constantly eating itself to be reborn.

Trailer Park Trickster is out THIS Tuesday, October 12th!

katieinca's review against another edition

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4.0

This had a lot of what I wanted from the first book - Adam's hometown, how he interacts with the people there, the history of magic in his family - plus plenty of action, and the relationships from the first book get developed further. I mean, Adam and Vic are kind of big dummies who are terrible about communicating with each other (especially Adam) but they're getting a little better. So yay!
I still have a hard time with his elves. "They're super scary powerful and ancient and you cannot comprehend their powers and you can never ever trust them because they'll eat you alive. Except the two elf characters we actually hang out with are fairly chill, friendly, and like pop culture, and one of them may be genuinely in love with our protagonist." It feels so much less internally consistent to me than the human side of what goes on these books that it pulls me out of the narrative.