📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Every Heart a Doorway
AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: April 15th 2017
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So, what would you say if Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz weren’t just dreams or psychoses in children? What if children, all over the world, found doorways to other worlds? In this book, first of the Wayward Children series, we are introduced to a school full of them. Kids who went to worlds that loved and accepted them as heroes, then came home to a world that didn’t believe them. Didn’t believe in them. Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children disguises itself as a boarding school that corrects troubled runaways. Instead, it teaches these travellers how to cope with living in our world without running on rainbows or dancing with happy skeletons. Oh, but then the murders start.
This is a murder mystery, did I forget to tell you that? It’s not the most twisty-turny one I’ve ever read, but it is an engaging bit of fiction. When I reached the end of the book, I sat, dumbfounded that the whole experience is over… ooh, there’s more of them! The writing style leaves your mind to imagine most of the surroundings, focusing on the characters alone. That works great, because I loved all but one of them. Jack is a total fave, loving the mad scientist vibe, and glad we’ll see her again. I desperately want to read the rest of this series, and I think you will, too.
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Small Summary:
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children
No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests
Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere… else.
But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
Nancy tumbled once, but now she’s back. The things she’s experienced… they change a person. The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
But Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home. There’s a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it’s up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of the matter.
No matter the cost.
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.