It’s a large cast, and I felt like I knew them all.
Everyone, down to the minor characters, is a shaded-in drawing rather than a sketch. I love the main character Teo he is complex and not a straight-up cinnamon roll, which would have been an easy trap to fall into. After reading author Aiden Thomas‘s debut, Cemetery Boys, and The Sunbearer Trials, I can confidently say that character work is where he shines. RELATED: 4 SFF Trans Writers to Check Out This Trans Day of Visibility What works Teo is determined to get himself and his friends through the trials unscathed - for fame, glory, and their own survival. Worst of all, Teo’s annoyingly handsome ex-best friend and famous semidiós Hero, Aurelio, is favored to win. Now they must compete in five trials against Gold opponents who are more powerful and better trained. Teo, and Xio, the thirteen-year-old child of the god of bad luck. Sol chooses not one, but two Jade competitors. His best friend, Niya, is a Gold semidiós and a shoo-in for the Trials, and while he trusts her abilities, the odds of becoming the sacrifice is one-in-ten.īut then, for the first time in over a century, the impossible happens. Teo, a seventeen-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of the goddess of birds, isn’t worried about the Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all - they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body melted down to refuel the Sun Stones, protecting the world for another ten years. Sol selects ten of the most worthy semidioses to compete in the Sunbearer Trials.
SummaryĪs each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the chaotic Obsidian gods at bay. Thank you to Feiwell & Friends/ Macmillan for a copy of The Sunbearer Trials in exchange for an honest review.
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