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Coyote Blue
A Novel
Sam Hunter has made a prosperous life selling insurance in Santa Barbara, far from the Crow reservation he fled as a teenager. Then he falls for Calliope Kincaid and receives another, much less welcome visitor: Coyote, a trickster god with plans for the past Sam has hidden.
From the publisher’s blurb
“Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam”Read the full description at Simon & Schuster
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What makes it funny?
Sam can adjust his sales pitch to almost anyone. Coyote is a harder customer: a shapeshifter whose intervention costs Sam the security he's spent years building. The joke keeps returning to a professional persuader who can't manage his own supernatural helper.
The comedy at work
Coyote treats helping Sam as permission to cause trouble. His disruptive interventions pull a smooth insurance salesman into a world where a god's idea of putting things right can be alarming to everyone else.
Try this if…
Mythological fantasy readers who enjoy irreverent gods may find this appealing, particularly if they like a romantic adventure alongside the supernatural trouble. Sam's suppressed Crow identity gives the story a personal stake beyond Coyote's pranks.
Good to know
The story includes sexual humor, violence and a child kidnapping. Publishers Weekly found a recurring strain of misogyny, while Kirkus enjoyed the pace and humor but found the plotting fragmented.
A few distinguishing details
- A Crow insurance salesman confronted by the trickster Coyote
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