Trailer Park Trickster by David R Slayton
Adam Binder #2 Spoilers (for White Trash Warlock as well)
After defeating Mercy in Denver, Adam Binder has had little time to relax before he senses his Aunt Sue has died and he must return to Guthrie, Oklahoma. The druid that he was hunting appears right after Sue’s death, which seems more and more linked to Adam’s father as he gathers more evidence on who he is. And with their relationship in a sort of limbo, Vic decides to go to Oklahoma for Sue’s funeral, but is tricked into the Other Side by Argent. And they get stuck there and are in a little over their heads…
I didn’t give this book a rating right away on goodreads like I had with White Trash Warlock because I had quite a different experience with it, as my personal life really affected how I read it. The beginning was too heavy for me at first, but I went back to it after a few days’ break. The fantasy got me to finish this, as I wouldn’t have with the heavy correlations to my own life. (But I still love the author’s work. Keep it up, David!)
Without accounting for my personal life as well as the author’s (reading his note broke my heart and I send all my love and thoughts), TPT is heavier than WTW as the grief that the Binders hold keeps growing as their losses increase. I think it was appropriate that this wasn’t as “fun” as WTW and Slayton wrote the grief very well.
Aside from writing with more grief and sorrow, Slayton has gotten more poetic since White Trash Warlock and has some beautiful comparisons.
“He spoke with power too, the strength of a blizzard, but it wasn’t nearly enough to counter an immovable glacier. “
Trailer Park Trickster, David R Slayton
In preparing myself for future motherhood and looking at things with a different perspective, this quote really resonated with me. And it helped me understand that, while she had gotten involved sometimes, why my mother would put her two cents in but didn’t always do anything and allowed me to make my own choices. As well as my father being even more hands off, having faith that I would figure life out as I made choices and mistakes. Aside from people’s different parenting styles, this is something that more than parents experience. We experience it in all types of interpersonal relationships – such as knowing a friend is in a bad relationship or when you get a bad vibe from their boyfriend/girlfriend, you can only tell her a number of times about it. Then after a while, it depends on what the friend wants to do with knowing that their friend is being treated wrongly.
“Sometimes the hardest thing is watching someone you love make a mistake that you know is going to hurt them, but you can’t tell them.”
Trailer Park Trickster, David R Slayton
I can’t wait to read Deadbeat Druid – but just may have to with the library ban I’ve just put myself on. But that will surely be a good book for me to look forward to in May!!
Read on.
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