Elatsoe

I think I would have really liked this book had I read it around the age of twelve. In fact, I think if you changed the MC's age from 17 to 12, this would be a pretty fabulous middle grade novel. Even as is, I'd be pretty happy to hand this off to one of my fifth graders. I can't even see much benefit to making the main characters 17 other than that they can drive, which in a world that already involves fairy ring transport, seems like kind of a small detail. So yeah, it's a fun story and pretty great to see indigenous mythology prominently featured in modern fantasy, but the plot is pretty Scooby-Doo, the characters act extremely young, and the prose is middle-grade level. Not a bad book by any means, but really not for me.