Sunbearer Trials

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Aiden Thomas: Sunbearer Trials (2022, Feiwel & Friends)

English language

Published Sept. 25, 2022 by Feiwel & Friends.

ISBN:
978-1-250-82213-0
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Ok, I love Aiden Thomas.

Disclaimer: This is a YA book, so I did not judge it harshly in an attempt to compare it to adult book expectations.

This book was like taking The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, and Mexican culture and throwing it all into the blender. I really enjoyed a mythology book that was not centered around Greek mythology. Thomas is also amazing at incorporating diversity into his books, and this one had it in spades. A semidiós is deaf and even the bad guys have enough knowledge of sign language to be able to tell what's being said. LGBTQ+ representation is shown through the entirety of the book. Teo, the MC, is trans and still struggles with accepting himself because his feathers are still the feminine brown colors. The overall acceptance of the characters choosing to be themselves and receiving full support of everyone -even the mortals- was amazing.

I really loved …

reviewed Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

A combination of the Hunger Games and Mexican mythology

A world where, every decade, it is up to ten of the gods' children (Golds and Jades) to save the world from the Obsidians by competing against each other in The Sunbearer Trials: the winner will be selected as the Sunbearer, the loser will be sacrificed in order to save the world.

An epic competion that reminded me strongly of the Hunger Games, but had its own twists and rules. A coming of age story about underdog teenage Teo and his struggles to prove himself to others and himself, too. I really liked the story, the setting, and the characters, although most of them have some potential to evolve even more.

It is a young adults book, so I was sometimes bored or frustrated with elaborate teenage struggles and stubbornness, but overall I enjoyed the book.