An exercise in thirteens....

A week or two ago I finally got hold of a copy of Patricia Wrede’s Thirteenth Child, the release of which served as the catalyst for major pyrotechnics around the blogosphere some months back.  The following is not a discussion of the pyrotechnics; rather, it’s a review of and commentary on the book as written.

( And it's long, so we'll put it behind a cut-tag.... )

An exercise in thirteens....

A week or two ago I finally got hold of a copy of Patricia Wrede’s Thirteenth Child, the release of which served as the catalyst for major pyrotechnics around the blogosphere some months back.  The following is not a discussion of the pyrotechnics; rather, it’s a review of and commentary on the book as written.

( And it's long, so we'll put it behind a cut-tag.... )