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A review by bbqrplanting
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
3.0
I enjoyed this book but it wasn't a can't-put-down book for me.
I may have given it four stars but this book is set in a (fictional, alternate) North America-the wild west one might say. However, there are no Native Americans which is a little weird and problematic, it is an erasure of Native Americans, which is all too common in our culture. This is a fictional, fantasy book with a fictional, fantasy world (the lack of American Indians is not the only difference between the book world and real history) and I'm not sure how intentional the decision to leave them out was. I chalk it up to a clueless white person not realizing their privilege or seeing how framing a setting in this manner is problematic. There are two more books after this one, so perhaps she remedies the problem as the story progresses. I was able to get past it to enjoy the book, but if you don't think you can do that, you might want to skip this one.
I may have given it four stars but this book is set in a (fictional, alternate) North America-the wild west one might say. However, there are no Native Americans which is a little weird and problematic, it is an erasure of Native Americans, which is all too common in our culture. This is a fictional, fantasy book with a fictional, fantasy world (the lack of American Indians is not the only difference between the book world and real history) and I'm not sure how intentional the decision to leave them out was. I chalk it up to a clueless white person not realizing their privilege or seeing how framing a setting in this manner is problematic. There are two more books after this one, so perhaps she remedies the problem as the story progresses. I was able to get past it to enjoy the book, but if you don't think you can do that, you might want to skip this one.