Myra King’s Reviews > By the Shores of Silver Lake > Status Update

Wilder has messed up on Carrie's age in this book.
Nine years have passed since the first book where we first met Carrie. In that book she was at least 1.
She should be around 10 now, yet she is being treated as though she was four or five. At the age 9, Mary was already being put in charge of the house and family, yet at 10 Carrie is still considered "just a little girl". It makes no sense.

This book has way too much description.
I'm struggling to connect to it the way I did the others