Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Review - Trickster's Girl

Trickster's Girl (The Raven Duet)Trickster’s Girl 
BY: Hilari Bell
PUBLISHED BY: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
PUBLISHED IN: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-547-19620-6
Pages: 288
Reviewed by Billy Burgess

Set in the year 2098, where there are border guards at every state border. A teenager, Kelsa, is mourning the lost of her father, an environmentalist. She had a close relationship with him. Every Sunday, they would take a hike. To honor him, Kelsa wants to continue the tradition, and that is where she meets Raven, a shape-shifting trickster. Kelsa soon learns that magic is real and that Earth will be destroyed if she doesn’t assist Raven on his quest.

Trickster’s Girl is a combination of supernatural and environmental genre, and it doesn’t mix well. I respect the authors concept of the Native American mythology, but the global-warming theme has been to death in novels, television and movies; and at times I felt the author was pushing the subject too much. I liked the idea that a person can’t cross a state line without a passport in the future, and overall the book was well written, but I had to push myself through it because I couldn’t get pass the boring plot.

*I would like to thank Houghton Mifflin and NetGalley for sending me a copy to review.

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