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* AbnormalAmmo: Maggie's shotgun is loaded with corn pollen and obsidian shot, both of which are sacred to the Diné and have exaggerated effects on supernatural creatures. Maggie points out they work pretty good on people too.



* AffectionateNickname: A few.
** Neizghání calls Maggie Chíníbaá, which means "girl who comes out fighting", after her traumatic sixteenth birthday.
** Rissa dubs Kai as Rabbit after he takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.



* AlcoholIsGasoline: Given the breakdown in global trade, gasoline is unavailable for everyone in Dinétah. Maggie's truck is modified to use straight alcohol instead.



* ApocalypseHow: Class 1 -- that is, worldwide and global -- but the United States of America and North America are left worse off than most other areas.

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* ApocalypseHow: Class 1 -- that is, worldwide Planetary / Societal Collapse. The Big Water literally flooded chunks of the planet destroying most industry and global -- infrastructure. The survivors in Dinétah hunt for food and scavenge for materials, but the are at least stable. The United States of America and North America in general are left worse off than most other areas.



%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Maggie Hoskie's past
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States of America collapsed and balkanized: the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Mormon theocracy and the Republic of New Denver controls Colorado.

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%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: * BigGood: Neizghání is known throughout Dinétah as the monsterhunter who people pray to when they are in need.
* BrokenPedestal: Neizghání may be the legendary monsterhunter to the Diné, but to
Maggie Hoskie's past
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States of America collapsed and balkanized:
he's the Navajo Reserves mentor that abandoned her without explanation. [[spoiler:The pedastal cracks further when she suspects he is behind the arrival of Arizona the tsé naayéé'.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Coyote offers Maggie a set of directional hoops that she uses in the finale for an entirely different purpose than was originally stated.
* TheChessmaster: In the finale [[spoiler:Ma'ii/Coyote]] claims to
have become an independent Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by manipulated events for the last decade to force Maggie into her current position.
* CoolCar: Maggie drives
a Mormon theocracy 1972 Chevrolet 4x4 pickup truck with a cherry-red paint job and the Republic lots of New Denver controls Colorado.chrome. She admits that replacement parts are very difficult to get.
* CoolOldGuy: Tah is no family to Maggie and old enough to be her father, but he's a valuable contact and sets her up with her partner Kai.



* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Maggie came into her clan powers on her sixteenth birthday. Her home was under attack by cannibals at the time.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Maggie Hoskie was orphaned in the Big Water and raised by her grandmother until her sixteenth birthday, when they were attacked by cannibals. Maggie's powers awakened and she brutally murdered the attackers, but not in time to save her grandmother.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: All Dine have clan associations from their mother's and father's sides. Some people can manifest powers based on their clans, including Maggie and Kai.
** Honágháanii Walks-Around clan can [[BulletTime move at super speed for a short time]], but get exhausted afterward.
** K'aahanáanii Living Arrow clan [[HearingVoices have a running situational intuition on how to kill everyone around them]].
** Tazhii Turkey clan [[BoringButPractical can call a wild turkey to themselves, for food or trade]].
** Bit'aa'nii Talks-In-Blanket clan [[MoreThanMindControl can be very persuasive]].



* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States of America collapsed and balkanized: the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Mormon theocracy and the Republic of New Denver controls Colorado.



* ForcedPrizeFight: Maggie enters Mosi's tournament to win a magic fire drill that is at the root of the tsé naayéé'.
* GoodGuyBar: Grace's All-American due to the heavily-armed proprietors blocking influence from corrupt law enforcement.



* TheMagicComesBack: After [[TheGreatFlood the Great Water]], the Energy Wars and the collapse of civilization came a return of magic to North America, especially the return of the ancient myths and legends of the Native Americans.

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* HeroesPreferSwords: Two major examples.
** Neizghání is identified by his signature lightning sword, though he has access to combat magic as well.
** Maggie prefers to use her seven-inch Böker hunting knife which distinguishes her from other humans who only use guns. [[spoiler:In the finale she claims Neizghání's lightning sword for herself.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Maggie is coming out of one at the start of the book, having been abandoned by Neizghání and spending the last nine months just sitting in her trailer.
* HistoryRepeats: Ma'ii says he has seen five worlds come and go, each time ending in a flood. The Big Water is only the latest.
* ImAHumanitarian: Maggie and her grandmother were attacked by a group of cannibals. Such is not uncommon among the desperate in the years since the Big Water.
* ImpossibleTask: Ma'ii requests that Maggie capture the sacred wind Nílchi'i for him and in return offers help with her work, claiming it should be an easy task for a monsterhunter like her. [[spoiler:It's really an excuse to give her the directional hoops that she can use to cage Neizghání according to Ma'ii's manipulations.]]
* KickTheDog: Longarm is a corrupt cop with a chip on his shoulder, but it's only when he [[spoiler:attempts to execute Kai]] that he becomes a valid target.
* KillItWithFire: The easiest way to destroy bullet-resistant tsé naayéé', used when Maggie and co are facing armies instead of individuals.
* KilledMidSentence: The final villain gets this treatment in the middle of his explanatory speech. [[spoiler:Given that he is a Diyin Dine'é it's not likely to stick.]]
* LockAndLoadMontage: Maggie engages one in the first chapter before she goes hunting: shotgun with special shot, handgun, hunting knife, and two flavors of throwing knife.
* TheMagicComesBack: After [[TheGreatFlood the Great Big Water]], the Energy Wars and the collapse of civilization came a return of magic to North America, especially the return of the ancient myths and legends of the Native Americans.Americans.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Neizghání is an immortal, but Maggie is a human. When he takes her as a romantic partner she is still a teenager, but he leaves her in her mid-twenties.
-->'''Ma'ii:''' Forget Neizghání. He is a deeply selfish creature. He does not love you. Cannot. You are but a moment's fancy, a distraction, a curiousity of which he has now tired.
* MercyKill: After Maggie defeats her first tsé naayéé' she has to confront its victim Addy. When Addy learns that she too will become tsé naayéé' she allows Maggie to execute her to spare her family.



* NinetiesAntiHero: Because Maggie's clan powers are all combat-related and her youth was spent in combat training, fighting is almost literally the only thing she knows. Every problem she encounters in the book is solved with lethal violence.
* ProBonoBarter: Maddie's pay for the Lukachukai job is a sackful of jewelry and a woven blanket. Then again, since there is no central authority for printing cash all trade is barter and favors.
* RedshirtArmy: Hastiin and the Thirsty Boys are a local militia called in as foot soldiers for the finale.
* ResignedToTheCall: At the beginning of the book Maddie is depressed. Her whole family is dead, her only prospects are in lethal combat, and her mentor Neizghání has abandoned her. When a kid on a motorbike tracks Maddie down to rescue his sister and refuses to leave, Maddie takes the job to pay the bills.
* TheSocialExpert: Kai easily makes friends and gets information everywhere he goes. [[spoiler:Turns out he's using a clan power to make his targets more pliable.]]
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: Badass Maddie quickly pairs up with medicine-man-in-training Kai and depends on both his healing powers and his knowledge base through the book.



* TheWallAroundTheWorld: There's a large wall around the nation of Dinetah and in the rest of Arizona that separates the Dinetah Nation from the rest of the world. The inhabitants of the Dinetah nation completely ignore the world beyond the wall.

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* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Maggie's clan powers are dormant until her sixteenth birthday when she is attacked by cannibals in her home. She wins.
* TreacherousAdvisor: Ma'ii is an immortal and does have crucial information and tools. He will only dispense them when he believes it to be in his own best interest.
* TrueSight: Kai's medicine allows Maggie to see through the illusions of the Shalimar trading post including Mosí's natural form and the clan backgrounds of the humans present.
* TheVirus: People attacked by the tsé naayéé' rise again as tsé naayéé'.
* TheWallAroundTheWorld: There's a large wall around the nation of Dinetah Dinétah and in the rest of Arizona that separates the Dinetah Dinétah Nation from the rest of the world. The inhabitants of the Dinetah Dinétah nation completely ignore the world beyond the wall.wall.
* WasOnceAMan: All of the tsé naayéé' are converted humans. The armies seen in the finale arose from wiping out entire settlements.
* YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord: The book constantly translates words familiar to Navajo speakers to standard English.
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* {{Mythpunk}}: A fusion of Navajo mythology and Navajo folklore with a futuristic and high tech setting, but also post-apocalyptic, ''Franchise/MadMax'' style.

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* {{Mythpunk}}: A fusion of Navajo mythology and Navajo folklore with a futuristic and high tech setting, but also post-apocalyptic, ''Franchise/MadMax'' ''Film/MadMax'' style.
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''Trail of Lightning'' is the first novel in ''The Sixth World'' series, a post-apocalyptic UrbanFantasy by Rebecca Roanhorse.

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''Trail of Lightning'' is the first novel in ''The Sixth World'' series, a post-apocalyptic UrbanFantasy by Rebecca Roanhorse.
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During the 21st century, the world is devastated by the Flood, a world flood of supernatural origins, which destroys and devastates the world, causing the collapse and disintegration of civilization and society, an Indigenous reserve of the Dinetahs , becomes an independent state, proclaiming independence from the United States of America,
some Navajo populations have developed magical and supernatural powers, the Clan Powers, based on their ancestral tribes.

But in Arizona, after the return of magic, witches and monsters and demons spread, fought and opposed by special monster hunters and witch hunters.

Maggie Hoskie, a bounty hunter of monsters with a traumatizing past, is flanked by Kai Arviso, a nephew to a friend of hers, committed to fighting a new and mysterious race of monsters.

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During the 21st century, the world is devastated by the Flood, a world flood of supernatural origins, which destroys and devastates the world, causing world and causes the collapse and disintegration of civilization and society, an Indigenous society. Following the disaster, the indigenous reserve of the Dinetahs , becomes an independent state, proclaiming declaring independence from the United States of America,
America. Further, some Navajo populations have developed magical and supernatural powers, the Clan Powers, based on their ancestral tribes.

But in In Arizona, witches, monsters and demons have spread after the return of magic, witches and monsters and demons spread, are fought and opposed by special monster hunters and witch hunters.

Maggie Hoskie, a bounty hunter of monsters with a traumatizing past, is flanked by Kai Arviso, a nephew to a friend of hers, and is committed to fighting a new and mysterious race of monsters.



* AfterTheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as The Big Water or the Great Water or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the Energy Wars, for the control of global energy resources.
* AllMythsAreTrue: in this universe, the gods, myths and legends of Navajo mythology are a real thing and they really exist, not only that, they have always existed, in a mythological and ancestral epoch and have returned to the world, after the Great Flood...
* ApocalypseHow: Class 1, that is, worldwide and global, but the United States of America and North America are largely destroyed and devastated the most.
* BadassNative: The main character, Maggie Hoskie. She's a trained bounty hunter plus has her Clan Powers that helps give her an edge in combat.

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* AfterTheEnd: The Earth was devastated by a large-scale world war, the Energy Wars, for he control of global energy resources. This was followed by a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and warming-induced rising seas and melting ice, has that devastated large parts of the world, the world. The event is remembered as The the Big Water or the Great Water or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing and caused what was left of civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the Energy Wars, for the control of global energy resources.
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* AllMythsAreTrue: in In this universe, the gods, myths and legends of Navajo mythology are a real thing and they really exist, not only that, they have always existed, in a mythological and ancestral epoch and have returned to the world, after the Great Flood...
Flood.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 1, 1 -- that is, worldwide and global, global -- but the United States of America and North America are largely destroyed and devastated the most.
left worse off than most other areas.
* BadassNative: The main character, Maggie Hoskie. She's a trained bounty hunter plus has her Clan Powers that helps help give her an edge in combat.



* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States of America have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of New Denver that controls Colorado ...
* CrapsackWorld: Civilization has been shaken and broken up for a long time, the world has fallen into darkness and barbarism, the eastern United States of America, are threatened by a theocracy of religious Fanatics and monstrous creatures, legendary creatures of Navajo Folklore, they attack and devour human beings
* TheCult: A mysterious religious sect that venerates the White Locust, a creature of Navajo mythology, like a God or a supreme deity.

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* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States of America have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, balkanized: the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons Mormon theocracy and the Republic of New Denver that controls Colorado ...
Colorado.
* CrapsackWorld: Civilization has been shaken and broken up for a long time, the world has fallen into darkness and barbarism, the eastern United States of America, America are threatened by a theocracy of religious Fanatics fanatics and monstrous creatures, and legendary creatures of Navajo Folklore, they folklore attack and devour human beings
beings.
* TheCult: A mysterious religious sect that venerates the White Locust, a creature of Navajo mythology, like a God god or a supreme deity.



* FallenStatesOfAmerica: After the Energy Wars, global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crises, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them.
* TheGreatFlood: A native-American version of this trope, caused both by the transition from the "old world" (the Fifth World) to the new world (The Sixth World) in Navajo Cosmology and from global warming and sea level rise, which caused a global deluge on a global and global scale, which has submerged a large part of the emerged lands.
* TheGreatOffscreenWar: The Energy Wars are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation.
* TheMagicComesBack: After "the Great Water" and the Energy Wars and the collapse of civilization and a return of Magic to North America, especially the return of the ancient Myths and legends of the Native Americans.
* {{Mythpunk}}: A fusion of Navajo Mythology and Navajo Folklore with a Futuristic and High Tech setting, but also Post-Apocalyptic, "Mad Max" style.

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* FallenStatesOfAmerica: After the Energy Wars, global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crises, the United States of America collapsed collapsed, declined and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , balkanized, fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and in conflict between them.
with each other.
* TheGreatFlood: A native-American Native American version of this trope, caused both by the transition from the "old world" (the Fifth World) to the new world (The (the Sixth World) in Navajo Cosmology cosmology and from by global warming and sea level rise, which caused rise. Either way, the result was a global deluge on a global and global scale, which has that submerged a large part of the emerged lands.
* TheGreatOffscreenWar: The Energy Wars are mentioned, of the Wars were a struggle among the major world powers, power for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation.
* TheMagicComesBack: After "the [[TheGreatFlood the Great Water" and Water]], the Energy Wars and the collapse of civilization and came a return of Magic magic to North America, especially the return of the ancient Myths myths and legends of the Native Americans.
* {{Mythpunk}}: A fusion of Navajo Mythology mythology and Navajo Folklore folklore with a Futuristic futuristic and High Tech high tech setting, but also Post-Apocalyptic, "Mad Max" post-apocalyptic, ''Franchise/MadMax'' style.



* TheWallAroundTheWorld: Around the nation of Dinetah and in the rest of Arizona, there is a large Wall, a great wall that separates the Dinetah Nation from the rest of the world, the inhabitants of the Dinetah nation, completely ignore what is the world beyond the wall.

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* TheWallAroundTheWorld: Around There's a large wall around the nation of Dinetah and in the rest of Arizona, there is a large Wall, a great wall Arizona that separates the Dinetah Nation from the rest of the world, the world. The inhabitants of the Dinetah nation, nation completely ignore what is the world beyond the wall.
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some Navajo populations have developed magical and supernatural powers, the "Clan Powers", based on their ancestral tribes.

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some Navajo populations have developed magical and supernatural powers, the "Clan Powers", Clan Powers, based on their ancestral tribes.
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* AfterTheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the Energy Wars, for the control of global energy resources.

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* AfterTheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The The Big Water" Water or "the the Great Water" Water or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the Energy Wars, for the control of global energy resources.
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* AfterTheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the "Energy Wars "Or" Energy War ", for the control of global energy resources.
* AllMythsAreTrue: in this universe, the gods, myths and legends of Navajo mythology are a real thing and they really exist, not only that, they have always existed, in a mythological and ancestral epoch and have returned to the world, after the "Great Flood "

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* AfterTheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the "Energy Wars "Or" Energy War ", Wars, for the control of global energy resources.
* AllMythsAreTrue: in this universe, the gods, myths and legends of Navajo mythology are a real thing and they really exist, not only that, they have always existed, in a mythological and ancestral epoch and have returned to the world, after the "Great Flood "Great Flood...



* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States of America have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of "New Denver" that controls Colorado ...

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* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States of America have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of "New Denver" New Denver that controls Colorado ...



* TheCult: A mysterious religious sect that venerates the "White Locust", a creature of Navajo mythology, like a God or a supreme deity.

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* TheCult: A mysterious religious sect that venerates the "White Locust", White Locust, a creature of Navajo mythology, like a God or a supreme deity.



* TheGreatOffscreenWar: The "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation.

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* TheGreatOffscreenWar: The "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" Energy Wars are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation.
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* ActionGirl: Maggie Hoskie, the protagonist, is a monster hunter.



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* FallenStatesofAmerica: After the Energy Wars, global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crises, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them.

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* TheWallAroundtheWorld: Around the nation of Dinetah and in the rest of Arizona, there is a large Wall, a great wall that separates the Dinetah Nation from the rest of the world, the inhabitants of the Dinetah nation, completely ignore what is the world beyond the wall.

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"Trail of Lightning" is the first novel in "The Sixth World" series, a post-apocalyptic UrbanFantasy by Rebecca Roanhorse.

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some Navajo populations have developed magical and supernatural powers, the "Clan Powers", based on their ancestral tribes ...

but in Arizona, after the return of magic, witches and monsters and demons spread, fought and opposed by special monster hunters and witch hunters ...

Maggie Hoskie, traumatized by the death of her grandmother, by a monster, becomes a bounty hunter of monsters, after being trained by Neizhgani, an old monster hunter, Maggie flanked by Kai Arviso, Tah's nephew, a Man of Medicina, committed to fighting a new and mysterious race of Monsters

has had a sequel, or Storm of Locusts published April 23, 2019

* ApocalypseHow: Class 1, that is, world-wide and global, but the United States of America and North America are largely destroyed and devastated the most ...

* AftertheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the "Energy Wars "Or" Energy War ", for the control of global energy resources ...

* BadassNative: the Main Character, Maggie Hoskie, an Female version of this trope

* TheCult: a mysterious religious sect that venerates the "White Locust", a creature of Navajo mythology, like a God or a supreme deity

* TheGreatFlood: a native-American version of this trope, caused both by the transition from the "old world" (the Fifth World) to the new world (The Sixth World) in Navajo Cosmology and from global warming and sea level rise, which caused a global deluge on a global and global scale, which has submerged a large part of the emerged lands ...

* TheGreatOffscreenWar: the "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation

* DividedStatesofAmerica\BalkanizeMe: the united states of america have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of "New Denver" that controls Colorado ...

* FallenStatesofAmerica: after the Energy Wars and after global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crisis, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them ...

* TheTheocracy: the Mormon Republic of Utah

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in Arizona, after the return of magic, witches and monsters and demons spread, fought and opposed by special monster hunters and witch hunters ...

hunters.

Maggie Hoskie, traumatized by the death of her grandmother, by a monster, becomes a bounty hunter of monsters, after being trained by Neizhgani, an old monster hunter, Maggie monsters with a traumatizing past, is flanked by Kai Arviso, Tah's nephew, a Man nephew to a friend of Medicina, hers, committed to fighting a new and mysterious race of Monsters

has had a sequel, or
monsters.

The second book,
Storm of Locusts Locusts, was published April 23, 2019

2019.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 1, that is, world-wide and global, but ActionGirl: Maggie Hoskie, the United States of America and North America are largely destroyed and devastated the most ...

protagonist, a monster hunter.
* AftertheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the "Energy Wars "Or" Energy War ", for the control of global energy resources ...

resources.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 1, that is, worldwide and global, but the United States of America and North America are largely destroyed and devastated the most.
* BadassNative: the Main Character, The main character, Maggie Hoskie, an Female version of this trope

* TheCult:
Hoskie. She's a mysterious religious sect trained bounty hunter plus has her Clan Powers that venerates the "White Locust", a creature helps give her an edge in combat.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The United States
of Navajo mythology, like a God or a supreme deity

* TheGreatFlood: a native-American version of this trope, caused both by the transition from the "old world" (the Fifth World) to the new world (The Sixth World) in Navajo Cosmology and from global warming and sea level rise, which caused a global deluge on a global and global scale, which has submerged a large part of the emerged lands ...

* TheGreatOffscreenWar: the "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation

* DividedStatesofAmerica\BalkanizeMe: the united states of america
America have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of "New Denver" that controls Colorado ...

* FallenStatesofAmerica: after the Energy Wars and after global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crisis, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them ...

* TheTheocracy: the Mormon Republic of Utah
Colorado ...




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* TheCult: A mysterious religious sect that venerates the "White Locust", a creature of Navajo mythology, like a God or a supreme deity.




* Mythpunk: a fusion of Navajo Mythology and Navajo Folklore with a Futuristic and High Tech setting, but also Post-Apocalyptic, "Mad Max" style

* TheMagicComesBack: after "the Great Water" and the Energy Wars and the collapse of civilization and a return of Magic to North America, especially the return of the ancient Myths and legends of the Native Americans ...

* ActionGirl: Maggie Hoskie, the protagonist, a monster hunter

to:

\n* Mythpunk: a fusion FallenStatesofAmerica: After the Energy Wars, global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crises, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them.
* TheGreatFlood: A native-American version of this trope, caused both by the transition from the "old world" (the Fifth World) to the new world (The Sixth World) in
Navajo Mythology Cosmology and Navajo Folklore with a Futuristic from global warming and High Tech setting, but also Post-Apocalyptic, "Mad Max" style

sea level rise, which caused a global deluge on a global and global scale, which has submerged a large part of the emerged lands.
* TheGreatOffscreenWar: The "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation.
* TheMagicComesBack: after After "the Great Water" and the Energy Wars and the collapse of civilization and a return of Magic to North America, especially the return of the ancient Myths and legends of the Native Americans ...

Americans.
* ActionGirl: Maggie Hoskie, the protagonist, {{Mythpunk}}: A fusion of Navajo Mythology and Navajo Folklore with a monster hunterFuturistic and High Tech setting, but also Post-Apocalyptic, "Mad Max" style.
* TheTheocracy: The Mormon Republic of Utah.
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* DemonHunter: the Monster Hunters of the Navajo Republic

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* After the End: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the "Energy Wars "Or" Energy War ", for the control of global energy resources ...

* The Great Offscreen War: the "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation

* Divided States of America Balkanize Me: the united states of america have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of "New Denver" that controls Colorado ...

* Fallen States of America: after the Energy Wars and after global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crisis, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them ...

to:

* Apocalypse How: ApocalypseHow: level 1, that is, world-wide and global, but the United States of America and North America are largely destroyed and devastated the most ...

* After the End: AftertheEnd: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the "Energy Wars "Or" Energy War ", for the control of global energy resources ...

* The Great Offscreen War: TheGreatOffscreenWar: the "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation

* Divided States of America Balkanize Me: DividedStatesofAmerica\BalkanizeMe: the united states of america have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of "New Denver" that controls Colorado ...

* Fallen States of America: FallenStatesofAmerica: after the Energy Wars and after global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crisis, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them ...



* Crapsack World: Civilization has been shaken and broken up for a long time, the world has fallen into darkness and barbarism, the eastern United States of America, are threatened by a theocracy of religious Fanatics and monstrous creatures, legendary creatures of Navajo Folklore, they attack and devour human beings

* Demon Hunter: the Monster Hunters of the Navajo Republic

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Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, published in 2018

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the 2018 novel "Trail of lightning" in a New series called "the Sixth World" by Rebecca Roanhorse

During the 21st century, the world is devastated by the Flood, a world flood of supernatural origins, based on the myth of the Flood, which destroys and devastates the world, causing the collapse and disintegration of civilization and society, an Indigenous reserve of the Dinetahs , becomes an independent state, proclaiming independence from the United States of America,
some Navajo populations have developed magical and supernatural powers, the "Clan Powers", based on their ancestral tribes ...

but in Arizona, after the return of magic, witches and monsters and demons spread, fought and opposed by special monster hunters and witch hunters ...

Maggie Hoskie, traumatized by the death of her grandmother, by a monster, becomes a bounty hunter of monsters, after being trained by Neizhgani, an old monster hunter, Maggie flanked by Kai Arviso, Tah's nephew, a Man of Medicina, committed to fighting a new and mysterious race of Monsters

has had a sequel, or Storm of Locusts published April 23, 2019

* Apocalypse How: level 1, that is, world-wide and global, but the United States of America and North America are largely destroyed and devastated the most ...

* After the End: a set of ecological and environmental catastrophes, including global warming and climate change and rising seas and melting ice, has devastated large parts of the world, the event is remembered as "The Big Water" or "the Great Water" or the Great Tide, which raised sea levels, causing civilization to collapse and crumble before then, the Earth had been devastated by a large-scale world war, namely, the "Energy Wars "Or" Energy War ", for the control of global energy resources ...

* The Great Offscreen War: the "Energy Wars" or "Energy Wars" are mentioned, of the Wars among the major world powers, for the control of the few resources and energy fields left in the world, which are on the verge of exhaustion and hyper-exploitation

* Divided States of America Balkanize Me: the united states of america have collapsed and crumbled and ended up balkanized, the Navajo Reserves of Arizona have become an independent state, a Navajo Republic, while Utah is governed by a Christian Theocracy of Christians Mormons and the Republic of "New Denver" that controls Colorado ...

* Fallen States of America: after the Energy Wars and after global ecological and environmental catastrophes and the resource crisis, the United States of America collapsed and fell apart and ended up in Decline first, then they ended up completely Balkanized , fragmenting into a melting pot of struggling states and conflict between them ...

* Theocracy: the Mormon Republic of Utah

* Crapsack World: Civilization has been shaken and broken up for a long time, the world has fallen into darkness and barbarism, the eastern United States of America, are threatened by a theocracy of religious Fanatics and monstrous creatures, legendary creatures of Navajo Folklore, they attack and devour human beings

* Demon Hunter: the Monster Hunters of the Navajo Republic

* Mythpunk: a fusion of Navajo Mythology and Navajo Folklore with a Futuristic and High Tech setting, but also Post-Apocalyptic, "Mad Max" style

* Magic Returns of Earth: after "the Great Water" and the Energy Wars and the collapse of civilization and a return of Magic to North America, especially the return of the ancient Myths and legends of the Red Indians and the Native Americans ...

* Action Girl: the protagonist, a monster hunter

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