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A review by mr_phil
The Case of the Feathered Mask, Volume 4: The Mysteries of Maisie Hitchins, Book 4 by Holly Webb
3.0
This took a while to read to Tiny as she is currently obsessed with Harry Potter so it was second choice for quite a while and we had a long hiatus!
It's a good story - we both enjoyed it - and I think plays the cultural sensitivity of the subject matter pretty well (or, at least, safely) for reading to a 5 year old.
As it's set in the Victorian era, the characters' attitudes to cultural and ethnic diversity would inevitably be more than a little old-fashioned. Webb hasn't shied away from that and nor has she spent too much time explaining it. Occasionally I wished it was made a bit clearer that certain behaviours were not kind, but it was a fine line to tread and as I was reading it to Tiny I could ask her what she thought about some things or explain some extra context about the time as we went along.
It's a good story - we both enjoyed it - and I think plays the cultural sensitivity of the subject matter pretty well (or, at least, safely) for reading to a 5 year old.
As it's set in the Victorian era, the characters' attitudes to cultural and ethnic diversity would inevitably be more than a little old-fashioned. Webb hasn't shied away from that and nor has she spent too much time explaining it. Occasionally I wished it was made a bit clearer that certain behaviours were not kind, but it was a fine line to tread and as I was reading it to Tiny I could ask her what she thought about some things or explain some extra context about the time as we went along.