I saw the Wrede when visiting my sister and picked it up without hesitation, as I love the Wrede-Stevermer collaborations and enjoyed some of Wrede's other works.

I finished the book, but I was feeling mighty uncomfortable about halfway through, so much so that I hopped online as soon as I could (my sister doesn't have internet at home) to see if anybody else had had the same WTF reaction I did.

Boy howdy, did they ever.

I took this to mean I've gotten slightly better at reading works for kyriarchy. I wouldn't say I'm perfect at it (who is?), but I used to swallow up Laura Ingalls Wilder uncritically, so...