A review by philipeos
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

I adore the story's Aiden Thomas tells and how he seems to absolutely effortlessly create a divers cast for his books!!! He has this insane talent of being his characters come to live in a way that I rarely see in books!! And yes the description 'a mixture of Percy Jackson and The Hunger Games' is most fitting in my opinion, well only with a lot mote great queer representation! What I loved about this book was that Thomas used the fictional story to create a world in which being queer is nothing bad or a huge deal to people. It's just a part of who they are and no one ever appears to be transphobic or homophobic at all and that was a really nice thing to see as a queer reader. We have enough negativity in our own lives to deserve something like this!
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