Halloween Bingo 2023
Maggie Hoskie admits that she is difficult to love. When people start calling you a Godslayer, they also start to back away. Despite this, she thinks she has found a real connection with Kai, a Diné man who also has fearsome clan powers. She is torn between being hurt that he left her behind when he went outside Dinétah and vowing to rescue him from the cult leader, the White Locust.
Maggie is still learning how to use her powers and how to employ the powerful sword of Neizghani she claimed when she killed him. Can she learn fast enough to avert another apocalypse? She inherits a young “niece," Ben, another woman with clan powers, and they set off into the world outside the Dinétah to find Kai. It's a jungle out there.
It's a great adventure, giving our women suitable challenges to overcome and a creepy cult leader to deal with. His ability to split into a swarm of huge locusts (just like a vampire becoming a cloud of bats) makes him next to impossible to kill. The novel's last pages strongly suggest that Roanhorse meant to write at least one more book in the sequence, a book which has never been published. That's a shame, as there are plenty of obstacles for Maggie and Kai to confront.
I read this book for the Monsters square on my bingo card, as Maggie the monster hunter takes on the White Locust.
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