I have been #reading the #trickstertrilogy over the last week. I can’t tell you what it was about these books that pulled me in and kept me reading long into the night, downloading the next one the minute I finished the last one until the last page was turned on the entire series, but it was one hell of an emotional roller coaster. Jared’s character is so f#@ked up and I just wanted him to make it out of the crazy so bad. This series really hits on how insane family can be especially when there is addiction rearing it’s ugly head right at the heart, but throw in creatures from #indigenousfolklore plus magic, ancient grudges and greed and you have a story I couldn’t put down. #readthisseries #bookstagram #sonofatrickster #edenrobinson #bookgeek #tricksterdrift #bookworm #returnofthetrickster #booknerd #booklove #bookish #indigenousauthor #indigenousbooks #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookaholic #bibliotherapy #booksicouldntputdown #books #read #readme https://www.instagram.com/p/CWomSxhgEl4/?utm_medium=tumblr

Book to read for causal downtime reading. Can't wait to get started! It seems so good! Son of a Trickster (The Trickster trilogy) By: Eden Robinson Description Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize: With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Fellowship, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs, crazy family dynamics, and cannibalistic river otters . . . The exciting first novel in her trickster trilogy. Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby)--and now she's dead.      Jared can't count on his mom to stay sober and stick around to take care of him. He can't rely on his dad to pay the bills and support his new wife and step-daughter. Jared is only sixteen but feels like he is the one who must stabilize his family's life, even look out for his elderly neighbours. But he struggles to keep everything afloat...and sometimes he blacks out. And he puzzles over why his maternal grandmother has never liked him, why she says he's the son of a trickster, that he isn't human. Mind you, ravens speak to him--even when he's not stoned.      You think you know Jared, but you don't. #trickstertrilogy #folklore #folktales #tricksterspirit #fictionbooks #fiction #indigenousbeliefs #yareads #yafiction #fiction #fictionbooks #mustreadbooks #bookseries #books #bookblog #ohmybookness #readsofinstagram #read #readers #booklovers (at Kerhonkson, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMYkCGGshEC/?igshid=1pekjazzickww