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A doorway to a beautifully built new world

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

December 12, 2021 by Mobius_Walker Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: asexual, LGBTQIA, novella, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

Mobius_Walker's CBR13 Review No:72 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: asexual, LGBTQIA, novella, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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CBR Bingo- What does home mean?

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Down among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

October 24, 2021 by persnickety chick 1 Comment

This fills the Home square of the CBR Bingo card quite nicely! It’s taken me a long time to get around to reading the Wayward Children series and i actually started with book 2- Down among the sticks and bones. Wayward children is about a school/home for children who have been “taken into fairyland”. There are many lands, all of them different from outs. There is a rough schematic of how these worlds fall relative to each other- between logic and nonsense and virtue and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr13bingo, cbrbingo13, Home, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

persnickety chick's CBR13 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr13bingo, cbrbingo13, Home, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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Victorian Gothic and Lovecraft Mashup

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire

June 5, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I liked Come Tumbling Down better than the previous installment of the Wayward Children series in terms of story, but I do think there was an over-emphasis on the concept of who’s the monster. Jack is back at the school but there’s something very wrong with her which if not fixed will definitely destroy her. This was the premise in the previews I’d seen and I have to admit I didn’t see that problem itself coming, although in hindsight it does suit their folkloric homeland […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: Come Tumbling Down, fairy tale retelling, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:44 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: Come Tumbling Down, fairy tale retelling, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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Something missing in Lundy and her Market

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

February 18, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

The biggest thing for me here was I had trouble really feeling the motivation. Lundy’s attachment to the Goblin Market is clearly based a little in her friends but one of them is hardly mentioned except that they died (?) and the other one and Lundy don’t really seem to have any kind of emotional attachment. But then again maybe that’s the point? Lundy’s character from her childhood is presented as a rather detached bookworm who doesn’t seem to mind that she doesn’t have a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, dark fairy tale, fairy tale adaptation, in an absent dream, Seanan McGuire, the goblin market, Wayward Children

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, dark fairy tale, fairy tale adaptation, in an absent dream, Seanan McGuire, the goblin market, Wayward Children ·
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Oversugared for Valentine’s Day

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

February 15, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I had a hard time deciding my Valentine’s Day reading this year: either start C.L. Polk’s new book which actually is a romance (among other things) or continue the Wayward Children series. I went with continue the current series because I wanted to know what happens next. Beneath the Sugar Sky picks up where the first book leaves off, at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, apparently not too long after the events of the first book. Several key characters are still there including Kade […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Beneath the sugar sky, candyland, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Beneath the sugar sky, candyland, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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Jack and Jill the backstory

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

February 15, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I half succeeded at a library run the other day. I did succeed at getting the next 3 Wayward Children books, but failed to get any more of a manga series I’d grabbed the first 3 of on a whim; at some point in 2 days someone took volumes 4-12. Now I’ve gotta wait at least 2 weeks on those. At least I had Down Among the Sticks and Bones to make up for it. Volume 2 of the Wayward Children series is basically the […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror Tagged With: dark fairy tale, down among the sticks and bones, fairy tale, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror · Tags: dark fairy tale, down among the sticks and bones, fairy tale, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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