Maybe it was but I think that is pretty standard for all of the books in the trilogy and honestly I think it's just Eden Robinson's style to end her stories somewhat abruptly without much denouement. Other reviewers have said the ending was rushed. Eden Robinson is a very experimental and artistic writer and it totally works for me. Book 1 was mainly world building, Book 2 was really Jared's trickster origin story, and Book 3 was his reckoning with what that meant. I don't read many trilogies so I'm not sure if this trilogy really follows the typical trajectory but I suspect it doesn't. On the one hand it's a story about Jared but on the other hand it's a story about all the badass magical grannies in Jared's life and I'm here for it. It is funny and scary and suspenseful and violent and disturbing and emotional and fun and sad and weird and happy and magical and every other adjective one could use to describe a story all at the same time. But it is so incredibly original and engaging. A horrible place to be for the sweetest Trickster there's ever been, one whose first instinct is not mischief and mind games but to make the world around him a kinder, safer, place. For Maggie it's simple-Kill or be killed, bucko-and soon Jared is at the centre of an all-out war. His mother Maggie, a hard-partying, gun-toting, tough-as-nails witch, resents like hell that Jared has taken after his father, but she is also determined that no one is going to hurt her boy. Everyone else he loves is either pissed with him or in danger from the dark forces he's accidentally unleashed in their world. There's more bad news: the only person in his life who is happy that he's a Trickster is his ex, Sarah. Now Georgina doesn't only want to turn him into her slave, she wants revenge on his whole family. In the struggle, he transported her and her posse of shape-shifting coy wolves to another dimension where the coy wolves all died. He is actually in such bad shape because he was forced into mortal combat with his father's sister, Aunt Georgina, a maniacal ogress hungry for his power. He finally knows for sure that he has no hope of ever being normal because he really is the son of Wee'git, a Trickster, and he's won the magic lottery-he is the only one of Wee'git's 535 children who is a Trickster too. They think that's why movers found him naked, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom's old house in Kitimat. Some of the people he loves-the ones who are deaf to the magic that swirls around him-assume he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. Jared, teenaged trouble magnet, wakes up in a hospital bed feeling like hell. The powerful resolution of a story that has already sparked the new CBC-TV series Trickster and inspired the debaters on Canada Reads The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling author of the Scotiabank Giller-prize finalist Son of a Trickster and Trickster Drift.
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