Anyway, this is another Loyalist book, but this one takes place after the Patriots win. So of course they act like assholes and throw the Loyalists out of their home in Albany.
I'd like to see one of these stories where the PoV wasn't the only one that was right and their enemies weren't automatically terrible. Like...you know...Felicity's books. Elizabeth was a Loyalist and she still got along fine with Felicity. She didn't turn up her nose and hiss "rebel" at her. It's a tentative balance on both sides in those books, but it's better than these DA ones where if the book is about Patriots, then they're good and the Loyalists are jerks, and vice versa.
So Mary and her family travel to Canada, where they will be rewarded with free land and food because they were loyal. But of course there's a bunch of hardship and it feels a little Little House-like at the end.
It was decent. Well-written mostly, but not the best topic for me.
Karleen Bradford wrote two other Dear Canadas, so we'll see her again. I have another book by her, the first in her Crusades series, that I'll get to at some point.
Next up: Lewis and Clark! Yay, no more war for...well, probably 8 years, as this next one is set in 1804.
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