Trail of Lightning
- 286
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Locus Award for Best First Novel
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About the book
Trail of Lightning is a 2018 fantasy novel, the debut novel by Rebecca Roanhorse. After a supernatural disaster destroys most of North America, Navajo monster-slayer Maggie Hoskie must navigate a post-apocalyptic world of monsters and Native American gods. The novel won the 2019 Locus Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula awards. The novel introduces a number of Navajo-inspired names for Maggie's antagonists. Neizghání is the most important of these, serving as mentor and adversary.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 244 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 62% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 244 | 100% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“This was a fun read. It took me back to the days of Leaphorn and Chee just a little bit. :) Great strong female protagonist. I'll be looking forward to the second one.”
“A quick pace made it easy to read but something about the order of events and how it felt things just kept “happening” to the characters felt off to me. Maybe I just don't like plot driven books. I don't read many of them.”
Frequently asked
How long is Trail of Lightning?
It has 286 pages — shorter than 95% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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