A review by magnetarmadda
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede

4.0

I really enjoyed the story and the way magic works here, and I am excited to read more. I liked the rewriting of world and American history. But I’ve got to say: it doesn’t sit with me well how slavery was brushed over and given a thick coat of “everything’s better now” and Native Americans don’t exist at all—that feels like laziness on the author’s part, and since she put so much effort into rewriting history and creating three types of magic, I’m just confused by the choice to exclude an entire race of people.