A review by internationalkris
When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

3.0

Though I had big-love for Zelda and her quest to obtain autonomy, my inner-critic turned on right away as I read this book. Throughout the story Zelda demonstrates no typical traits of a person with fetal alcohol syndrome, and reads much more as a functional individual on the autism spectrum. Of course there can be many atypical traits of FAS, but as so much of the story was connected to both the historical and present substance abuse of characters in the family, I felt that the author should have stayed more true to the disorder. Otherwise it was a page turner with a main character that everyone will be rooting for.