Every Heart A Doorway, by Seanan McGuire
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Yes, as Paul Cornell, author of London Falling and Witches of Lychford says, "Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human heart in a powerful fable of loss, yearning, and damaged children" (back cover). These children found the way out, the doors to their true homes, portals to other worlds. But they couldn't stay, they were sent back. Now, many like Nancy, are sent by desperate parents, or parents who don't want these strange children, to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. Here, they are with others who are also desperate to go back to their true homes, and keep seeking the way out, even though some know they will never get back.
But someone in this sanctuary of a boarding school is a murderer. Can Nancy and Kade and Jack find the killer before it is too late.
I love this book. In part, I feel I was such a wayward child, wanting to go to Narnia or Oz or Prydain,. Instead, I make up these other worlds and write about them. This brings to my question: why aren't there more boys here? I applaud Kade as a transgender boy, but there are more than a few boys who have knocked on the backs of wardrobe, and are not "too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked" who are somehow "[protected] ... from doors" (McGuire 59).
Recommended.
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuireMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Yes, as Paul Cornell, author of London Falling and Witches of Lychford says, "Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human heart in a powerful fable of loss, yearning, and damaged children" (back cover). These children found the way out, the doors to their true homes, portals to other worlds. But they couldn't stay, they were sent back. Now, many like Nancy, are sent by desperate parents, or parents who don't want these strange children, to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. Here, they are with others who are also desperate to go back to their true homes, and keep seeking the way out, even though some know they will never get back.
But someone in this sanctuary of a boarding school is a murderer. Can Nancy and Kade and Jack find the killer before it is too late.
I love this book. In part, I feel I was such a wayward child, wanting to go to Narnia or Oz or Prydain,. Instead, I make up these other worlds and write about them. This brings to my question: why aren't there more boys here? I applaud Kade as a transgender boy, but there are more than a few boys who have knocked on the backs of wardrobe, and are not "too loud, on the whole, to be easily misplaced or overlooked" who are somehow "[protected] ... from doors" (McGuire 59).
Recommended.
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