I discovered Trail of Lightning when I saw the cover to its sequel, Storm of Locusts. Being a fiend for good cover art, I immediately wanted to buy that book. Then I found out it was the second book in the series and went back to find the first, which also had fantastic cover art by Tommy Arnold. Finding out Rebecca Roanhorse was a Pueblo/African American writer definitely impelled me to buy as I’ve meant to read more fantasy told from a non-Western POV.

Trail of Lightning is the story of Mag...