Tristan is STRONG

Strong character, strong series, strong everything!  Tristan Strong Punches a Hole is the Sky is one of those books that I am so glad to have read, but now mad that I didn't wait until the second and third and fourth were published because I want more!  I will have to wait until October, sad to say! 
This is part of a Rick Riodan Presents which I think is a pretty cool venture!
I haven't read any other books from the RRP imprint, but man, Kwame Mbalia has written a book that spins together today's world and myths that I found fascinating and funny and smart.  I don't know if I ever will get into the genre, I enjoyed the first Percy Jackson book but never read further even though I know they were well loved and probably are awesome but they are just so not for me. 
Mbalia's writing, the voice of Tristan and the supporting characters, um who couldn't love Gum Baby and John Henry and man...I have to admit it...I have to...I even dig Anansi!  I laughed a lot through this book but it also holds many universal truths, like myths do.  October can't get here fast enough.
And man, man I hope this becomes a MOVIE!!!!