I don’t know how I missed that this was book one of a series, but I don’t know how I’ll wait to find out what happens next. It makes total sense, but a girl can hope there won’t be a cliffhanger on the book that just came out the month prior right? I listened to the audiobook and really thought that it was a great narration. It really brought the characters and the story to life for me. This is a young adult story with lots of LGBTQA+ representation which I loved. It was basically the hunger games but with Latinx demigods competing instead. The sunbearer trials take 10 demigods and have them compete. The winner is the sunbearer and the loser is the one they sacrifice to keep the world safe until the next trials. There are two tiers of demigods the golds who are more powerful and trained in a private school to be heroes and the jades who have lesser powers and primarily live among the mortals. Teo is a jade, trans son of Quetzal goddess of birds. He’s a bit of a trouble maker and no one is shocked more than he is than when he is selected for the trials.