wordnerdy's review against another edition
3.0
https://wordnerdy.blogspot.com/2020/05/2020-book-106.html
The problem with promising your firstborn child away is that inevitably you will have a firstborn child, who will then be whisked away by a magic carpet before she can even be given magical gifts at her christening. So then your brother and cousin have to go on a journey to christen her and have magical adventures along the way. I was less interested in these characters than the ones in earlier books (whistling magic is just not as cool or versatile as hearth magic) and there are still a lot of gross cultural stereotypes. The last two books in this series were written this millennium, so I have hopes they will be less racist. B.
The problem with promising your firstborn child away is that inevitably you will have a firstborn child, who will then be whisked away by a magic carpet before she can even be given magical gifts at her christening. So then your brother and cousin have to go on a journey to christen her and have magical adventures along the way. I was less interested in these characters than the ones in earlier books (whistling magic is just not as cool or versatile as hearth magic) and there are still a lot of gross cultural stereotypes. The last two books in this series were written this millennium, so I have hopes they will be less racist. B.
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