Lost In The Moment And Found
Just finished reading "Lost In The Moment And Found" by Seanan McGuire, released by Tor Books.
Like the previous novels in McGuire's Wayward Children series, "Lost In The Moment And Found" is a portal fantasy that is written in the style of the lyrical portal fantasies mostly written by British authors in the early and mid-20th Century - though the quest the children go on when they enter a doorway with the words "Be Sure" written on their mantles center around their particular situation with their family life.
Now in a brief forward, McGuire states that this latest entry in her Wayward Children series is based on her own personal life where she fell victim as a children to a sexually abusive adult in her life. Her character, Antsy, a five-year-old girl tragically looses her father when he suffers a widow-maker heart attack during their father-daughter shopping time in Target. Her mother quickly moves on and soon marries Tyler - the boyfriend she started dating six months after her late husbands funeral.
Antsy doesn't like Tyler and soon has reason to distrust him as he begins to set up circumstances to drive a wedge between Antsy and her mother. Antsy decides to run away and escape from Tyler. She had intended to go her grandmother's place in Manhattan, but finds a doorway leading into a resale store that is a nexus point of various worlds and accepts a job as a shopper for the two keepers of the store. Only the store has a deadly secret to ordinary humans because it steals time from them - McGuire's metaphor for child sexual abuse - which it does in the real world.
"Lost In The Moment And Found" is the survival story of one young girl who manages to escape her situation only to confront a more dire menace she must discover and overcome.
A powerful allegory and cautionary tale combined.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Moment-Fo...
Like the previous novels in McGuire's Wayward Children series, "Lost In The Moment And Found" is a portal fantasy that is written in the style of the lyrical portal fantasies mostly written by British authors in the early and mid-20th Century - though the quest the children go on when they enter a doorway with the words "Be Sure" written on their mantles center around their particular situation with their family life.
Now in a brief forward, McGuire states that this latest entry in her Wayward Children series is based on her own personal life where she fell victim as a children to a sexually abusive adult in her life. Her character, Antsy, a five-year-old girl tragically looses her father when he suffers a widow-maker heart attack during their father-daughter shopping time in Target. Her mother quickly moves on and soon marries Tyler - the boyfriend she started dating six months after her late husbands funeral.
Antsy doesn't like Tyler and soon has reason to distrust him as he begins to set up circumstances to drive a wedge between Antsy and her mother. Antsy decides to run away and escape from Tyler. She had intended to go her grandmother's place in Manhattan, but finds a doorway leading into a resale store that is a nexus point of various worlds and accepts a job as a shopper for the two keepers of the store. Only the store has a deadly secret to ordinary humans because it steals time from them - McGuire's metaphor for child sexual abuse - which it does in the real world.
"Lost In The Moment And Found" is the survival story of one young girl who manages to escape her situation only to confront a more dire menace she must discover and overcome.
A powerful allegory and cautionary tale combined.
Strongly Recommended.
Five Stars.
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Moment-Fo...
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