Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Interesting Concept, Would Have Loved Even More

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

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If you’re in the mood for a YA portal fantasy with ace and trans rep, this might be for you. Although to be fair, it’s maybe more portal-adjacent because we don’t actively spend time in those other words. In this first book in the Wayward Children series, we learn that Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children is a sanctuary for children who visited other worlds but for some reason left or were rejected from them. Their families don’t believe they traveled anywhere, and Eleanor takes them […]

You can be sure about more than one thing

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire

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Seanan McGuire has three different series that are on a predictable release schedule: Septembers are for October Daye, May for InCryptid and January? Well, that’s saved for the Wayward Children novella series. As always, no quests allowed. For anyone new to the series, the even releases are deeper dives into the story of one of the characters (usually someone we have met already, sometimes someone to be introduced soon) while the odds should be read in order and are part of a continuing storyline that […]

In a drowned girl’s world

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire

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This is the 10th novel in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. The series is about a boarding school for children that have returned from quests to other worlds, like Narnia and are now back – some experienced years of life, only to find only seconds had passed in their original world, returning to their younger bodies, others find themselves back at home years after their disappearances to families that don’t know what to do with them, unable to explain what happened to them. In some […]

Where this series shines, and where it falls apart

Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire

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After going back and rereading my favorite Wayward Children book (In an Absent Dream), I decided to pick up the last two that I hadn’t read yet. I loved one, didn’t care for the other, and I think I pinpointed what works for me with these books and what doesn’t. Lost in the Moment and Found is the story of Antsy (Antoinette), whose father has died and mother has remarried. Her mother’s new husband is Bad News, and Antsy runs away from home to escape him. She […]

“Your life is the biggest bargaining chip you have. Before you choose where to spend it, be sure you understand what you’re getting in return.”

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

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This is the 4th book in the Wayward Children series. Last year, I read the first several books in the series. These are all so short, which is nice for the ones you don’t like as well but makes the ones you DO like a bit disappointing as it leaves you wanting more. I read these while on a trip, and intended to continue reading them once I was home but I never did. But, In an Absent Dream just stuck with me. In an Absent […]

A doorway to a beautifully built new world

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

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How do you care for your daughter after she returns from the Land of the Dead? If you’re Nancy’s parents, you take her to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Thus begins Every Heart a Doorway. Nancy is delivered to her new home to get better when all she wants is to return to the world she stumbled upon years ago. As does everyone else under Eleanor’s care. She takes care of and helps those children who have crossed over to other worlds and want nothing […]



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