But I was also a jock, and he kinda hates jocks on sight so it could have gotten weird, but his best friend is Niya! And who am I, if not a big goofy Himbo? I think we would’ve bonded over our general distaste for authority figures. Teo and I would have either been best friends or sworn enemies. If you'd met Teo as a teen, would you have been friends with him? That avocados are poisonous to birds! You would think it wouldn’t matter much, but I actually had to totally restructure a scene because of it. What's the strangest thing you learned while researching The Sunbearer Trials? Teo’s doing his best on that journey and I’m real proud of him! It’s like waking up one morning and realizing everything wrong with the place you’ve grown up in and having to reconcile that with all the good parts that are still real. If you could give Teo one piece of advice, what would it be? The Sunbearer Trials is set in a deeply flawed world that Teo fiercely loves, and he has a lot to learn about what’s going on around him by being immersed in it for the first time.
But by the end, Huemac tells Teo he is a “loud, impulsive, persistent seeker of justice.” And I think that sums it up pretty perfectly Teo’s journey in The Sunbearer Trials! Throughout the book, his guardian figure, Huemac, calls him a Troublemaker. But he’s feisty and he’s scrappy! He stands up for what he thinks is right and he doesn’t back down.
Teo isn’t fierce in the traditional sense of his world-he’s puny compared to the other kids, he doesn’t have any cool powers, he’s not strong or athletically talented. The Sunbearer Trials is truly a treat of a novel that had us hooked from the very beginning, but if you need some extra incentive to pick this one up, be sure to check out this interview with the author!
This Mexican-inspired fantasy is the magical action-packed novel of our dreams. Aiden Thomas is BACK with another stunner.
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