- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Roc (Sep 7 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451463498
- ISBN-13: 978-0451463494
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #307,026 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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National bestselling author of Roadkill
Bar owner Triva Iktomi knows that inhuman creatures of light and darkness roam Las Vegas-especially since she's a bit more than human herself. She's just been approached with an unusual proposition. Something has slaughtered almost one thousand demons in six months. And the killing isn't going to stop unless Trixa and her friends step into the fight...
Bar owner Triva Iktomi knows that inhuman creatures of light and darkness roam Las Vegas-especially since she's a bit more than human herself. She's just been approached with an unusual proposition. Something has slaughtered almost one thousand demons in six months. And the killing isn't going to stop unless Trixa and her friends step into the fight...
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Rob, short for Robyn (yes, he is really a she) Thurman lives in Indiana, land of rolling hills and cows, deer, and wild turkeys. Many, many turkeys. She is also the author of the Cal Leandros Series: Nightlife, Moonshine, Madhouse, and Deathwish; has a story in the anthology Wolfsbane and Mistletoe; and is the author of Trick of the Light, the first book in the Trickster series.
Besides wild, ravenous turkeys, she has a dog (if you don’t have a dog, how do you live?)—one hundred pounds of Siberian husky. He looks like a wolf, has paws the size of a person’s hand, ice blue eyes, teeth out of a Godzilla movies, and the ferocious habit of hiding under the kitchen table and peeing on himself when strangers come by. Fortunately, she has another dog that is a little more invested in keeping the food source alive. By the way, the dogs were adopted from shelters. They were fully grown, already housetrained, and grateful as hell. Think about it next time you’re looking for a Rover or Fluffy.
For updates, teasers, deleted scenes, and various other extras, visit Rob Thurman's website and her LiveJournal.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (34 customer reviews)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Get your wisecracking-and-asskicking fix here!, Sep 7 2010
By Kelly (Fantasy Literature) - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Grimrose Path: A Trickster Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
Trixa Iktomi comes from a long-lived, semi-divine trickster race. (Think "relative of Coyote" here.) She currently makes her home in Las Vegas, running a bar with her friend Leo, who is really the god Loki. As a result of events that occurred in the first Trickster book, Trick of the Light, Trixa and Leo are de-powered at the moment and now have to solve their problems with very little in the way of magical ability.Trixa is approached by a demon, Eligos, who needs her help to stop a powerful being that is killing demons by the hundreds. Trixa and Leo brainstorm, trying to figure out who or what is behind the deaths, but the truth is much worse than they expected:
"We hadn't even put him on our list, because it would've been ludicrous. Overkill. Like making a list of what could possibly ruin your camping trip. Rain. Cold. Bugs. Or an asteroid the size of the moon hitting your tent dead on."
So... how do you battle the bad-guy equivalent of a giant asteroid, when your powers are kaput? If you're a trickster, you lie and steal and bluff, and have a heck of a time doing it. It's lots of fun for the reader, too, as Trixa thumbs her nose at both Heaven and Hell and makes sarcastic comments all the way.
As befits her trickster nature, Trixa isn't the most reliable of narrators. She doesn't exactly lie to the reader in this book, but she leaves out a few things, lies to the other characters, and lets the reader jump to the wrong conclusion. I love unreliable narrators, so I enjoyed this twist (and the heartstring-tugging reason behind Trixa's lie), but your mileage may vary.
There are a few spots in The Grimrose Path that flow oddly or that are a little confusing (though some of these make sense once Trixa comes clean about her deception). Overall, though, I found the book entertaining; by turns it had me laughing hysterically, shuddering at the creepy villain, and sniffling a little at a touching moment or two. If you're looking for a wisecracking-and-asskicking fix, The Grimrose Path will hit the spot as long as you're OK with an unreliable narrator. You don't need to have read Trick of the Light to follow The Grimrose Path, though I plan on going back and checking it out.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Story but..., Feb 1 2011
By Book Fan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Grimrose Path: A Trickster Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
"The Grimnrose Path" was a good story. I was glad to see the secondary characters of Griffin, Zeke, and Leo in this book. For me, these three made the entire book more enjoyable that it would have been without them.But, while I enjoyed the story I found that the author in this outing had the lead character, Trixa, use too much internal dialogue and was way too self-aggrandizing. It was to the point that as soon and the dialogue between the characters ended I started skimming paragraphs because the author had Trixa waxing philisophical on some point that completely slowed the pacing the book down to a crawl. Most of the time the instrospective commentary was irrelavant to the immediate situation the characters were facing, and plopped in the middle of an action scene or an important conversation between characters. Those portions of the book were so frequent that they quickly turned into 'blah, blah, blah, whatever' please get back to telling the story.
This review may sound like I didn't enjoy the story, but I did. I just disliked that I had to visually edit out the padding and filler I was reading to get to the story.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Trixa trick, Sep 24 2010
By H. Sowle "ms2thdr" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Grimrose Path: A Trickster Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
It's not so bad being human, except for the fact that every bite of chocolate that Trixa eats seems to go to her hips, oh, and the fact that should the demon Eligos find out she's human he'd probably kill her in an instant. But he thinks she's still a trickster or a Paien - not human, not angel, not demon. Trixa's human for 5 years as a result of the final action of the first book in the series - where she exacted her revenge for the death of her brother on the very high level demon who killed him. But doing so exhausted her and Leo's (Loki) powers leaving them human for the time being. But Eligos needs Trixa's trickster help - something is killing lots demons and ripping off their wings - and it isn't the "heaven" backed demon hunters of Eden house or Trixa's friends Zeke and Gabe. The book is fun as Trixa still runs her tricks on demons and angels and bluffs her way around her humanity and unlike so many heroines who have to be all brawn or all brain she's a bit of both. A fun read and I'm hoping for more books in the series.
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