In this YA fantasy, Tomas is a Roma teen who returns to Slovakia and discovers that the folk tale creatures he befriended as a young boy are more dangerous than he knew, and he must strike a bargain with Death to save his cousin's life.
That wasn't a very long (or entertaining) summary, so I'll give you another one from the author himself.
When Tomas and his family move back to Slovakia after a devastating fire, Tomas doesn’t remember the folktale creatures he befriended as a child.
But they remember him and his Roma family, and they’re not as friendly as they once were. Suddenly Tomas is in over his head, and he’ll have to strike a bargain with Death herself in order to put things right.
Amidst a backdrop of anti-Roma sentiment, he and his cousin must match wits with myths, and uncover the secrets of Tomas's past before their own futures become forfeit.
Sounds like the book will have a Percy Jackson type setting, but with a mythology that isn't generally known here in the states. But I'm not trying to compare it in any way to Percy Jackson. That's for you to decide.
It's coming out in March, so I'm pretty excited to read it and see how it is.
You can learn more about Vodnik at http://www.brycemoore.com/writing/vodnik/vodnik.html, or at the author's blog, http://brycesramblings.blogspot.com/. This is Bryce Moore's first novel, so I'm trying to help him out a bit and spread his name around a little. But from what I've seen in the Google search results it looks like there's a good number of people that know about this book.
Vodnik by Bryce Moore is being published by Tu books
You can also see it here at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Vodnik-Bryce-Moore/dp/1600608523
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