The Storm Runner

ok so first of all: THE DOG DIES
(but comes back as a hellhound so that's OK I GUESS)

OVERALL this fits in the same formula as Rick Riordan's books and also the first RR Presents book, Aru Shah and the End of Time.

I didn't love it as much as Aru Shah and I think a big part of it was this recurring subplot with Zane's two older neighbors, the seer Ms. Cab and the mortal gardener Mr. Ortiz, who kept persistently asking out Ms. Cab even though she kept saying no, and Zane kept saying how much he admired how “persistent” Mr. Ortiz was about asking out Ms. Cab and I was like NO WAY MAN BACK OFF. (and then it fuckin worked and at the end Ms. Cab went out to dinner with Mr. Ortiz)

That's not necessarily something that's going to be on the radar of most of the middle-grade kids reading this but still, seems like it's just contributing to some generally kind of gross background radiation.

THAT ASIDE, hell ya disabled Latino kid going on fantasy adventures! The meat of the book is cool and the Mayan myths are definitely a compelling basis for Percy Jackson-style shenanigans.