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A review by jennie_cole
When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
4.0
When We Were Vikings is the sweet "coming of age" story of Zelda, a 21 year old with cognitive issues. Zelda lives with her older brother Gert and loves schedules and rules. Shortly after her 21st birthday Zelda's life starts to get more complicated. Zelda's goal is to protect her clan and become a legend.
I really enjoyed this book and it was very different from anything I had read. My only issue was that while Zelda did not really get social queues and understands words in a very literal way she did not seem to have an overly strong mental retardation. She is meant to be suffering from a level of fetal alcohol syndrome but she is very smart. She has her words of the day program and some of them are very difficult words. There were multiple times where I forgot that she was supposed to have a cognitive problem.
That being said I would recommend this one to any reader.
I really enjoyed this book and it was very different from anything I had read. My only issue was that while Zelda did not really get social queues and understands words in a very literal way she did not seem to have an overly strong mental retardation. She is meant to be suffering from a level of fetal alcohol syndrome but she is very smart. She has her words of the day program and some of them are very difficult words. There were multiple times where I forgot that she was supposed to have a cognitive problem.
That being said I would recommend this one to any reader.