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Thirteenth Child Frontier Magic Patricia C Wrede Books

I loved this trilogy! I read the Thirteenth Child when it first came out several years ago and couldn't wait for the next book... but then kind of forgot about it until a few days ago when my mother was looking for a new book to read and I found my copy of the Thirteenth Child for her. She inhaled it and the rest of the trilogy in just a few days (unusual for her), and adored the whole thing so much that I decided to pick it up again. I'm so glad I did! The world building is really well done, there were very few anachronisms (which weren't explained away by magic), but I also didn't feel like Ms. Wrede was trying to shove history down her reader's throats like a lot of other historical fiction. (One reason I'm not a fan of that genre.)

I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy light fantasy, high fantasy, or simply books with good character development and enjoyable plots.


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Thirteenth Child Frontier Magic Patricia C Wrede Books Reviews

From my limited previous experience with Wrede, I knew it would be enjoyable, and not too heavy-weight. And the premise sounded intriguing.

What I found was a delightful sub-genre-blending story, putting the greater narrative scope of a deliberate trilogy to to excellent use. It can be read as “fluff,” devoured like cotton candy for the sheer delight of it—but one reason it _can_ be ead that way is that there’s an utterly solid skeleton somewhere under there, but tucked just around every corner a reader can find another gem.

It's not without its faults. The climax seemed awfully contrived (as did that of the sequel), and while the story demands the existence and to some extent the nature of the Rationalist Society, the nature of the world and the society as portrayed in the books give no reason for that faction to exist.

But I was more than willing to overlook those faults for the chance to read more about Eff's adventures and this fascinating world.

On the whole, Wrede has again produced a delightful story I look forward to rereading again and again.
This is a first person coming of age story told by Eff who happens to be a twin and a thirteenth child in an alternate Earth setting in the pioneer days. Settlers have more to worry about than our early settlers had though. This world has magic and dangerous magical creatures like steam dragons, spectral bears, mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses among other dangers.

The world also has three kinds of magic - the Avrupan, the Hijero-Cathayan, and the Aphrikan. Many, even most. of the people in Columbia are students of the Avrupan school which teaches that seventh sons are lucky and seventh sons of seventh sons are even luckier. And there is nothing worse to be than a thirteenth child. Her brother Lan is a double seven who is petted and praised for his potential; Eff is the unlucky thirteenth. While her parents are supportive of her, many of her aunts, uncles and cousins torment and belittle her. She develops a major inferiority complex and a fear that she really will turn out to be as horrible as her relatives say.

When she is five, her parents decide to travel west to the edge of settlement. Her father is a professor of magic who gets a job at one of the new land grant colleges on the frontier. This trip gives Eff a chance to start over but she still doesn't tell anyone that she is a thirteenth child. There in Mill City Eff also has the chance to learn from a new teacher who is an expert in the Aphrikan school of magic. The new teacher helps Eff gain confidence but Eff is still worried that her magic could be dangerous.

Now, in this world there is a magical barrier that was erected by Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to keep the people to the east safe from all the dangerous magical and non-magical creatures in the west. But settlers are pushing the limit and gradually expanding beyond this great Barrier Spell. Each settlement has their own magician to provide the magical protections necessary to live beyond the Great Barrier. But the land beyond the Barrier is little explored and largely unknown. Eff wants to learn more about the land and become a naturalist. When the settlements are attacked by a new insect that no one knew anything about, Eff travels with her father, twin, and friend to try to find a way to protect the settlements. And she becomes a heroine!

I thought the story was a fascinating and different take on fantasy. Combining magic with pioneering made it even more interesting. Having Eff tell her own story made it easy to understand and sympathize with her. The only problem I had with the story was the very lackluster cover that the book has. If I can convince students to pick it up, I know that they will enjoy getting to know Eff and finding out about her magical world. But the cover doesn't make it easy.

Don't judge this book by its cover! Pick it up and explore a fascinating new world with a wonderful main character.
Patricia Wrede has been a favorite author of mine for years. Her take on magic & magical creatures plus her ability to write clearly & with well developed characters, makes reading her books a true joy ... even when you're a 60 years old man reading YA books!

This 1st book in her Frontier Magic series was a joy to read. I highly recommend this series, especially to YA girls, as the main character is a young girl when the book starts & is 18 at the conclusion. I know that there are @ least 2 more books in the series & I look forward to reading them ASAP! 😁😁😁
I loved this trilogy! I read the Thirteenth Child when it first came out several years ago and couldn't wait for the next book... but then kind of forgot about it until a few days ago when my mother was looking for a new book to read and I found my copy of the Thirteenth Child for her. She inhaled it and the rest of the trilogy in just a few days (unusual for her), and adored the whole thing so much that I decided to pick it up again. I'm so glad I did! The world building is really well done, there were very few anachronisms (which weren't explained away by magic), but I also didn't feel like Ms. Wrede was trying to shove history down her reader's throats like a lot of other historical fiction. (One reason I'm not a fan of that genre.)

I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy light fantasy, high fantasy, or simply books with good character development and enjoyable plots.