A review by skc73
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

3.0

I can't decide if I liked this book or not. I liked the First Nations take on urban fantasy, but this felt more Holly Black than Cherie Dimaline. I'd prefer no Holly Black traces at all, because who wants to suffer through that blech, and much more Dimaline (or maybe take a trip down Mieville way a la Un Lun Dun, or radicalize it via Maracle, to give this a stronger backbone- anything to pull it away from the YA mediocrity with which Robinson seemed to be trying to wrestle). This felt like the opening book to a series, so it was a bit top-heavy in build-up to a shift that was ultimately a bit flaccid. Still interesting and worth the time to read, but I think a third of the first and second act could've been trimmed. I really didn't know what this was all about until the last fifty pages.