Meanwhile, Jared is forced to explore his magical heritage even as his mother’s ex-boyfriend David re-enters Jared’s life as a stalker. He ends up living with his estranged aunt, Mave, and quickly finds himself in the midst of an extended family, all of whom have their own issues to deal with. Having graduated high school early thanks to correspondence courses, Jared is almost eighteen and ready to attend technical school. Jared has been sober for nearly a year when he moves to Vancouver. Trigger warnings in this book for discussions of alcoholism, suicide, and self-harm, as well as forced drinking of alcohol. Spoilers for the first book but not this one. This kind of urban fantasy (as opposed to the more hardboiled, investigative/mystery urban fantasy that seems to predominate) is exactly what I need right now. Whereas Son of a Trickster was a slow burn towards pulling the veil back on the magical elements of the story, Trickster Drift is fairly upfront about it all.

In particular, the book shifts more concretely into urban fantasy territory. Trickster Drift picks up about a year after Son of a Trickster, and it’s everything I wanted in a sequel and then some. And neither can anyone else he loves.Eden Robinson has done it again. When David finally catches up with him, Jared can't ignore his true nature any longer. He also still hears his father in his head, and other voices too. He sees ghosts, he sees the monster moving underneath his Aunt Georgina's skin, he sees the creature that comes out of his bedroom wall and creepily wants to suck his toes. Though she smothers him with hugs, Mave is blind to the real dangers that lurk around them-the spirits and supernatural activity that fill her apartment.Īs the son of a Trickster, Jared is a magnet for magic, whether he hates it or not.

He figures that in order to be safe from both magic, addiction and David, he's got to get his grades up, find a job that doesn't involve selling weed cookies, and learn how to live with his Aunt Mave, who has been estranged from the family ever since she tried to 'rescue' him as a baby from his mother. And Maggie, a witch as well as a badass, can't protect him like she used to because he's moved from Kitimat to Vancouver for school.

He's being stalked by David, his mom's ex-a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. But his troubles are not over: the temptation to slip is constant (thanks to his enabling, ever-partying mom, Maggie). Jared Martin, seventeen, has quit drugs and drinking.

Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, a national bestseller and the second book in Eden Robinson's captivating Trickster trilogy.

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