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A review by gothicglasses
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
4.0
I have been having a lot of trouble getting into books for some reason latley so it has taken me a while to acutally finish this book. That doesn't mean this is a bad book on the contrary it is pretty good, a little slow paced but good.
I liked that this story for the fact that it isn't from the point of view of the most powerful character Lan. We get it from almost the sidekicks perspective. You will almost always see from the person best at whatever the book is about, almost never do we see second best.
Eff is second best and not only that but a lot of her family thinks she is cursed to be evil and her parents should have killed her when she was born. She has the emotions going along with being the "cursed" one in the family. In order to get Eff away from such a mentally damaging setting her Mom and Dad move her and most of her brothers and sisters out to the edge of cilivation in order for her father to get a fairly good job.
Here she and her brother Lan meet William, who she will get with even if I have to write a fanfiction! Darn it! I found him annoying at first, indifferent in the middle of the book and loving who he was by the end. Though to my slight disappointment there was no romance for our young heroine.
So in the end I love the POV, I liked most of the characters and the creatures. It was a little slow but that could have been because I'm just not in a reading kind of mood. *shrug*
I liked that this story for the fact that it isn't from the point of view of the most powerful character Lan. We get it from almost the sidekicks perspective. You will almost always see from the person best at whatever the book is about, almost never do we see second best.
Eff is second best and not only that but a lot of her family thinks she is cursed to be evil and her parents should have killed her when she was born. She has the emotions going along with being the "cursed" one in the family. In order to get Eff away from such a mentally damaging setting her Mom and Dad move her and most of her brothers and sisters out to the edge of cilivation in order for her father to get a fairly good job.
Here she and her brother Lan meet William, who she will get with even if I have to write a fanfiction! Darn it! I found him annoying at first, indifferent in the middle of the book and loving who he was by the end. Though to my slight disappointment there was no romance for our young heroine.
So in the end I love the POV, I liked most of the characters and the creatures. It was a little slow but that could have been because I'm just not in a reading kind of mood. *shrug*