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In an Absent Dream

(Wayward Children #4)

Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)

4.31 · Rating details · 4,228 ratings · 1,111 reviews

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.

When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at th ...more

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May 16, 2018 Emily May rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, paranormal-uf, coverly-love, 2019

“What’s the Goblin Market?”
“It is a place where dreamers go when they don’t fit in with the dreams their homes think worth dreaming. Doors lead here. Perhaps you found one.”

When I read Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, and Beneath the Sugar Sky, I thought I knew what it was to fall completely, utterly, in love with fairy tales. I knew nothing.

This is my favourite book yet in this gorgeous series. If I could rate it higher, I would. It's a beautiful, evocative fairy tale. ...more

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Feb 12, 2018 Melanie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, novellas-and-short-stories, cover-porn, young-adult, arc, read-in-2018, favorites

ARC provided by Tor in exchange for an honest review.

1.) Every Heart a Doorway ★★★★★
2.) Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★★★
3.) Beneath the Sugar Sky ★★★★★

“Death wasn’t fair value for anything…”

In An Absent Dream stars Katherine Lundy, the therapist who leads the group sessions in Every Heart a Doorway. She is Eleanor’s second in command, and claims to be eighty-years-old, despite only looking around eight. And this is her story, about her time in her world, the goblin market. And, frien ...more

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Jan 23, 2019 Lala BooksandLala rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-releases, most-anticipated

Absolute magic.

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Jan 08, 2019 Emily (Books with Emily Fox) rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019-releases

Wasn't planning on reading it.... yet here we are!

This was probably my favorite story/world to explore in this series.

I've read a few of McGuire's books (6?) and in all of them I've felt like "something" was missing.

They're very atmospheric, the writing is beautiful and the world building is interesting but the stories always feel a bit empty. For example, in this one you totally get a fairytale but better feel but every time any action would happen we fast forward to after the events have unfo ...more

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Mar 31, 2018 karen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: oh-no-biiiiiiirds

The Lundy who had stepped through the door for her second visit to the Goblin Market would barely have recognized the one who came stumbling through it for her second return to the world of her birth. This Lundy was thin, her arms and legs wiry with new muscle, rendered lean by physical labor and the rigors of questing. This Lundy had bruises on her ribs and a narrow scar down the middle of her back, tracing the outline of her spine, where the Bone Wraiths had tried to set their captive countrym

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Aug 06, 2018 Riley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

Rule One : Ask for nothing
Rule Two : Names have power
Rule Three : Always give fair value

Be Sure.

Welcome to the Goblin Market

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Oct 11, 2018 Lily ☁️ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: arc-and-arr, fantasy, young-adult, from-pub

➳ 3 1/2 stars

It would almost feel too cliché to use the title of a book to describe it, but in this case, it’s too fitting, too accurate, it too perfectly captures its essence, so as not to.

“Rule 1: Ask for nothing
Rule 2: Names have power
Rule 3: Always give fair value”

In an Absent Dream takes you on a journey to a whole new world that is curious, and whimsical, and leaves you feeling like you woke up from from a deep slumber with a wondrous tale faintly imprinted in the back of your mind—it gi ...more

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Nov 24, 2018 Hamad rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019-reads, arcs, good-covers, paperbacks

This review and other non-spoilery reviews can be found @The Book Prescription

“Enjoy yourself. There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.”

🌟 This is the 4th Novella in the Wayward Children series and it is still getting better. I think this is the one that spoke to me most and I will mention why later.

🌟 I am so picky when it comes to books and I try to choose books that I am sure I will like. That is one of the reasons that This review and other non-spoilery reviews can be found @The Book Prescription

“Enjoy yourself. There are many good things in the world, and each of them happens for the first time only once, and never again.”

🌟 This is the 4th Novella in the Wayward Children series and it is still getting better. I think this is the one that spoke to me most and I will mention why later.

🌟 I am so picky when it comes to books and I try to choose books that I am sure I will like. That is one of the reasons that makes me like the writing style of most of the books I read and although there is a variability between the writing styles, there are always things that come and surprise you as this one did. I did not know that I missed the writing style so much until I read this! Seanan McGuire has such a beautiful & poetic prose!

🌟 The Characters were great and there is always a theme the book is discussing. This was the story of Lundy who we met in the first book. The book involved Gender roles and the parental roles in life. Then there were the sacrifices that we make in order to reach a certain thing in life we want. Lundy was well written and I can’t wait to see how her story will continue.

🌟 The Pacing in these books is just right! It is not too fast or slow, it is so appropriate for a novella of this kind.

🌟 The plot was maybe my favorite for a personal reason, I usually refrain from including those in my reviews but I have to explain this time. I feel like we all live in our own Goblin Markets and we struggle to choose things sometimes. As a medicine student who is graduating soon, I have a choice to stay as a GP or to travel abroad and get a specialty. I am leaning toward the later but the “Fair Value” that the book mentioned is what’s making me hesitant. Maybe I am overseeing things and I am just consumed by that thought that I saw it in this book or maybe we all have things that we try to wight the “Fair value” of. That’s why this plot was my favorite in the series so far!

🌟 Summary: In an Absent Dream was as good as the rest of the series, If you liked them then there are high chances you will like this one too. The writing was so good and the experience was satisfying. If you are looking for something deep, well written and fast-to-read then I highly recommend this series. ...more

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Jan 02, 2019 Cece (ProblemsOfaBookNerd) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: anticipated-of-2019, my-books, read-in-2019

*4.5/5

God, I just keep letting these books break my heart.

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Jan 08, 2019 may ❀ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 100-pgs, buddy-read, ded, fantasy, i-am-trash, look-at-that-beauty, my-heart, real-problems, series

In an Absent Dream is so beautifully heartbreaking.

it's the tale of a girl who loves rules and logic and reason and loopholes. she loves books and reading and knowledge and dreaming and this world just can't offer that with its very strict ideas of what a little girl should be

and then she finds the goblin market and little lundy feels like she's reached home

seanan mcguire gets me EVERYTIME with her incredibly atmospheric writing, descriptions, and the whimsical worlds she builds from nothing

no ...more

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Feb 09, 2019 Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ya-fantasy

Emailed publicist asking for an ARC.

*no answer*

Requested book on NetGalley.

*crickets chirping*

Gets brand new copy from the library today.

HAH!!

*immerses self in book; emerges three hours later after reading the whole book in one sitting*

Amazing. Stunning. Beautiful. Heartbreaking.

I loved it.

Full review to come.

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Jun 29, 2018 destiny ♡⚔♡ [howling libraries] rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-physical, 2019-releases, fantasy, adult, shorts-and-novellas, so-pretty, favorites

#1 Every Heart a Doorway ★★★★★
#2 Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★★★
#3 Beneath the Sugar Sky ★★★★★
#4 In An Absent Dream ★★★★★

When a very serious little girl finds a magical door in the woods, she decides to leave behind a life of loneliness to go off in search of adventure, never expecting to find a mystical Market on the other side—where anything can happen, as long as you pay your debts.

If you know me, you already know that Seanan McGuire is one of my all-time favorite authors in the world ...more

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Jan 07, 2019 Bradley rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019-shelf, fantasy, ya, worldbuilding-sf, urban-fantasy

These Wayward children are all pretty damn awesome.

It's not hard to love a land built on your heart's wishes, a heavy dichotomy between fantasy and reality, and the rules that go along with it.

Lundry, in this one, feels damn important to me. It's almost like I was her. :) Bookish, reliant on rules and in love with Fair Value. She never wanted to game anyone. She only wanted to get by and remain invisible within the rules... and she eventually got her wish.

So pretty, poignant, and full of heart. ...more

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Feb 12, 2018 Elise (TheBookishActress) marked it as tbr-faves

Shelves: anticipated-sequels

THERE'S A COVER YALL

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Feb 25, 2018 ✨ jamieson ✨ marked it as to-read

Shelves: anticipated-2019

IT HAS A COVER

AND IT'S GONNA BE ABOUT LUNDY

*shakes*

YESSSS SEANAN MCGUIRE IS WRITING MORE WAYWARD CHILDREN BOOKS

BLESS
MOVED
GRATEFUL

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Jan 08, 2019 Trish rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is definitely my favourite volume so far of this enchanting series.

We follow Katherine Lundy, a girl of (at first) 8 years of age, and experience how the little bookworm doesn’t have any friends anymore because her father is her school’s principal. She’s fine though since she has fictional worlds to escape into. Sounds familiar? Exactly!
One day, as with all the wayward children, a door opens. In Katherine’s case, it’s the door to a world full of her beloved rules. The world is called the Go This is definitely my favourite volume so far of this enchanting series.

We follow Katherine Lundy, a girl of (at first) 8 years of age, and experience how the little bookworm doesn’t have any friends anymore because her father is her school’s principal. She’s fine though since she has fictional worlds to escape into. Sounds familiar? Exactly!
One day, as with all the wayward children, a door opens. In Katherine’s case, it’s the door to a world full of her beloved rules. The world is called the Goblin Market. You only get if you give in return and fair value is most important of all. The market itself ensures that nobody gets taken advantage of.
For a girl already liking rules and hating the world of her birth where she is told she's less because she’s a girl (that teacher - URGH!), that sounds like paradise.
Naturally, the world is not without its dangers but since Katherine befriends Moon right after stepping through the door, it’s ok.
Until the years pass and with them her chance to travel between the worlds; until she has to make a choice.

This time, we didn’t start with Eleanor’s home but followed Lundy (the name Katherine chooses at the Goblin Market as real names have power, which every bookworm reading fantasy already knows) back and forth between the worlds throughout her childhood and teenage years.

I don’t think I have to say anything about the author’s impeccable craft. There is nothing else I can say that I haven’t mentioned in my reviews for the previous three books and I, in the meantime, have highlighted some of my favorite lines now that I have my hardcover edition (I listened to a wonderfully narrated Audible audio version first). I needed to stop (for now at least) though, because otherwise I might have ended up quote the entire book. *lol*

The author has an uncanny way of making these strange and magical worlds come to life and just make sense to us. And, what I really appreciate, she isn’t trying to tell the readers how it is OK to be stranded here and that we simply haven’t seen the hidden beauty of this "real" world - she makes it clear that she, too, would much rather barter some pencils for pies.

What got to me the most was that in the end (view spoiler)!

Yet another fantastic reading experience that was over far too soon. *goes looking for the door back* ...more

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Jan 02, 2019 Celeste rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, favorites, literary, novella, young-adult

You can find this review and more at Novel Notions.

I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. While I appreciate the gift, the giving of it in no way impacted my opinion.

“Your name is your heart, and you don’t give your heart away.”

In an Absent Dream is heartbreaking in the most beautiful way. McGuire gives us a story that early readers of the Wayward Children series already know ends in tragedy, but she does so in a way that maintains both int You can find this review and more at Novel Notions.

I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. While I appreciate the gift, the giving of it in no way impacted my opinion.

“Your name is your heart, and you don’t give your heart away.”

In an Absent Dream is heartbreaking in the most beautiful way. McGuire gives us a story that early readers of the Wayward Children series already know ends in tragedy, but she does so in a way that maintains both interest and, amazingly, hope. I honestly didn’t think Down Among the Sticks and Bones could be topped, but I stand corrected. What a way to start off 2019.

“It is an interesting thing, to trust one’s feet. The heart may yearn for adventure while the head thinks sensibly of home, but the feet are a mix of the two, dipping first one way and then the other.”

The Goblin Market is everything I dreamed of as a child. Even before we reach the Market for the first time, I was in love. The description of the magical tree containing Lundy’s door captured my imagination on its first appearance. I felt that it was a perfect visual representation of the spirit of the Market. It is a “good tree,” one made for enticing children to play in its shade and climb its branches. Its leaves are every possible shade of green, with no two exactly the same shape. It is blatantly magical before the door it holds is even revealed.

“Home always shrinks in times of absence, always bleeds away some of its majesty, because what is home, after all, apart from the place one returns to when the adventure is over? Home is an end to glory, a stopping point when the tale is done.”

While I was a happy child with an amazing home life, I related to Lundy deeply on multiple levels. I was a very social kid, and yet I had an insanely hard time developing relationships with children who weren’t relatives. Adults loved me, but there was something about me that made me easy for kids to overlook until I hit the age of twelve. I think one of the major reasons for this stems from the other way in which I relate to Lundy: an insane love for and attachment to the written word. Until she stumbled into the Goblin Market, Lundy walks through life with her head perpetually stuck in a book. However, Lundy’s entire worldview changes when she steps into the Market for the first time and finds her true home. The question is, can she stay?

“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.”

I loved the descriptions of the Market. It was lush and enticing but left plenty to the imaginations of the readers. The rule of fair trade, as well as the other rules that govern the Market, are interesting in their duality of simplicity and complexity. But my favorite aspect of the Market is the idea that it is actually its own entity, whose interpretation of the rules is law. There is both a freedom and a rigidity to the Market that would have absolutely captured me as a child, as it has evidently done with so many other children. Believe it or not, kids thrive on a certain amount of rules as long as they aren’t stifling., and the Market hits the perfect balance. Everything has a price, and debt makes itself visible so that you can’t claim that what you owe slipped your mind. But is the Goblin Market really an incredible haven, or does it set out to entice and ensnare? If it’s a haven, why does it only call children to itself, and close its doors to them if they don’t decide to become citizens before the age of eighteen? If the Market truly wanted them to be sure, wouldn’t it call them as adults instead? There are so many questions raised by and about the Market, and yet it’s hands down my favorite of McGuire’s portal worlds so far.

“Following the rules didn’t make you a good person, just like breaking them didn’t make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked.”

There was nothing I didn’t love about this novella. The characters, the motivations, the settings, and the concept were all amazing. (Side note: I want to be the Archivist when I grow up. She’s warm and cool, motherly and friendly while still maintaining the aloofness and lack of bias needed to fulfill her role in the Market. I thought she was perfection.) While all of these elements were beautifully rendered, what grabbed me once again was McGuire’s prose. She has such a stunning way with words. I kept reading the same sentences over and over again, sometimes even reading them aloud because they felt so velvety on the tongue.

“No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”

What blows my mind about In an Absent Dream is the fact that, going in, I already knew how it was going to end. And yet the ending still absolutely wrecked me. I’m baffled by how much Lundy’s story impacted me emotionally. Do I recommend this book? Without reservation, to anyone and everyone. Whether you read fantasy or literary fiction, whether you love YA or hate it, whether you’ve read the preceding books in the series or not, In an Absent Dream is absolutely worth reading. While having read Every Heart a Doorway first is suggested, as you will first meet this book’s protagonist within its pages, it’s not required. And if you happen to be a fan of the Labyrinth, Bowie’s cult classic film, you will undoubtedly have a soft spot for the Goblin Market as presented in these pages.

“It was not, perhaps, a happy ending. But it was what they had, and so we shall leave them to it as we head on, ever on, toward the next, patiently waiting door.”

This is a stunning story exquisitely told, and it deserves to be read.

In an Absent Dream will be published January 8th, 2019. All quotes above were taken from the uncorrected proof, and are subject to change upon publication. ...more

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Feb 12, 2018 Trina (Between Chapters) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2019, audiobooks, fantasy, young-adult

My love for this series just keeps growing.

This installment is more similar to Down Among the Sticks and Bones than the other two, in that it fills in the backstory for a side character from Eleanor's school. You are immersed in Lundy's childhood and the world of her door. I admit I was disappointed when I heard this book was following Lundy because I she never struck a cord with me, but this book made me love her as much as all the other characters.

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Feb 09, 2018 Marisa rated it it was amazing

Update:
I think Seanan wanted to rip my heart out. But it was worth it. :') X(

02/09/18
Anyone else hoping for like 15 million more of these books (as well as a book about Cora's mermaid world)??? I sure as hell am!!!

Gimme!!!

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Jan 27, 2019 Dannii Elle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantastic-fabrications

This novella acts, just as books two and three do, as a prequel to the first. It involves Lundy and her trip into a wayward world, very unlike our own. One day, Lundy finds her mind lost inside of a book and her feet leading her into the land of the Goblin Market.

I was unsure whether I was going to continue with this series, after being underwhelmed by the third instalment but I am so glad I did as this was the most whimsical and magical series inclusion yet and gave me everything I was looking ...more

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Jan 11, 2019 Robin (Bridge Four) rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019-reads, 4-5-stars, bb-b-2019, cool-creatures, fae-ness, no-kissy-kissy, uf-pnr

In a story about a girl going to a place named The Goblin Market you probably shouldn’t expect something akin to a happy ending. And if you also read some of the other books in this series you know at least that Lundy currently looks 8 but is really somewhere in her 80s. This is her story, about a door she walked through more than once, bargains made and loopholes that didn’t turn out as expected.

“She had been able to find a doorway and disappear into an adventure, instead of living in a world

“She had been able to find a doorway and disappear into an adventure, instead of living in a world that told her, day after day after grinding, demoralizing day, that adventures were only for boys; that girls had better things to worry about, like making sure those same boys had a safe harbor to come home to.”

Catherine Lundy has understood since six that she does not fit in the life she has. She has felt out of place and not part of the world around her since she can remember. She has kept to herself and been at home in her own company, with very little use for the world around her. So when walking home one day a tree that shimmered with a door in it was right in her path she opened the door and made her way into a world she did fit into.

Sparkle and shine are pleasures reserved for predators who can afford the risk of courting attention. The exceptions, which exist for all things must have exceptions, are almost entirely poisonous and will sicken whatever they lure. So even the exception feeds into the rule, which states that a bright shimmering thing is almost certainly looking to be seen and that which hopes to be seen is pursuing its own agenda.

This isn’t really a kind world but a pocket in space and time that has specific rules.

Rule 1: Ask for nothing
Rule 2: Names have power
Rule 3: Always give fair value
And Last but not least Remember the Curfew

I’m going to say that Seanan McGuire has a way with worlds. They are all a little dark and grim-like in the feel of them. The Wayward Children series especially has had a lot of wonderful yet deadly types of worlds. The Goblin Market was not an exception to this rule. It is a world where if you do not do the right things and contribute enough being fair in your dealings with others it will show. The world uses a trade and barter system and if you and not contributing enough you might grow talons or feathers, your body will start to shift to the anatomy of the creature you will turn into if you let it go too far. But it is a fair world where you can also do the right thing and the feathers on your chest or in your hair will go away. Everyone is a contributor to the community and those that aren’t wear it on their skin.

I found the world fascinating and Lundy’s friendship with Moon cute. The Archivist, a keeper of knowledge and a helper of sorts for the Goblin Market was also a great and semi scary character in the story. I was very engaged in the story and didn’t understand why Lundy would ever go back to her family since she seemed to fit into that world well.

My only complaint for this tale other than it didn’t have a happy ending, even if it had a deserved ending perhaps is that I wanted to see some of the quests that Lundy and Moon went on. Most anything action related was off page and while the book was very engaging it would have been interesting to see that part of the story as well.

I totally enjoy these stories and I will continue to read them but I will note that this is a novella that costs $9.99 or you can get the audio version for $14.20 through audible and there is not wyspersync deal if you want to get both the audio and ebook. I only got the audio because I had extra credits from Christmas for Audible and so I needed to use 5 this month. For something that is 187 pages long I think it is a lot of money. I think that is limiting the readership on this series for sure as I usually have a buddy read for all of Seanan McGuire’s books as they come out but the 4 other people I usually read it with opted out.

Still it is an interesting series but if you can get it from your library or have extra audible credits from Christmas it might be more worth it. ...more

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Aug 02, 2018 Julie Zantopoulos rated it it was amazing

Shelves: arc, read-in-2018

"To be a child is to be a visitor from another world."

In In an Absent Dream we follow Lundy, the child psychologist and therapy session guide at the school for wayward children. She looks eternally young despite her wisdom and in this book, we learn her backstory, her doorway world, and how she came to work for Eleanor West. This is a particularly unique story for the series because it follows Lundy and only Lundy unlike other stories which have had a host of characters (or in Down Among the Sti ...more

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Nov 05, 2018 Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-2018

In an Absent Dream is the latest novella in Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series. I've read every single novella and this, the fourth, is just like the previous ones fabulous. If you love reading books about children traveling to other realms then you really need to read these novellas. What I love about them is that they are so dark, so horribly cruel and also sometimes so funny. The story shows how children who travel to other worlds and come back, are so changed by their experience that t ...more

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Feb 17, 2018 Jack Stark rated it it was amazing

Shelves: coming-of-age, fantasy, favourites, fairy-tale, coverly-love, parallel-universe

Pre-release and pre-read thoughts

~~This has got to be Kade's story. Right? RIGHT?!~~ I was wrong.

Wait, I got it! This is Lundy's story. In EHaD Lundy states:

"I’ll live a long, long time. Longer, maybe, than I would have had I continued aging in the usual way. But they threw me out anyway, because I had broken the rules. I’ll never marry, or have a family of my own, and my daughters will never find their way to the door that once led me to the Goblin Market. So I suppose I’ve learnt the danger of ma ...more

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Jan 12, 2019 amy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019, buddy-read, favorites

pure fucking magic

[4.5/5 stars]

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Feb 12, 2018 Lindsay rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy

Lundy was one one of the characters from Every Heart a Doorway and her story was given in summary there. This novella is that story in all its heartbreaking detail.

Katherine Lundy is a quiet bookish child who's nature and her parentage (her father is the school principal) stand in the way of friends and much connection to anyone in her world. When the door to the Goblin Market shows up she journeys to a world that suits her nature perfectly. But when she begins to find the connections in both wo ...more

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Jun 21, 2018 rachel added it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal-fantasy-uf, coverporn, own

#1 Every Heart a Doorway ★★★★★
#2 Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★☆☆
#3 Beneath the Sugar Sky ★★★★★

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Jun 17, 2018 Rian *fire and books* rated it it was amazing

HOLY MONKEYS! This honestly was the best one yet.

I can’t do a proper review yet because that would be against the rules (Lundy would be so proud of me!) and I don’t wish to anger the great people of Edelweiss.

I will however say this one was honestly my favorite one yet.

“Be Sure” is the motto for these books and I am sure Lundy’s story is my favorite. She is THE MOST LOYAL woman-child ever.

I can’t wait for y’all to meet Moon.

Come back Halloween time for my review! 🎃

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Jan 08, 2019 Fiona rated it it was amazing

Shelves: absolute-favourites, destroyed-me, fairytales, found-family, fantasy, into-the-woods, sad

To be a child is to be a visitor from another world muddling your way through the strange rules of this one, where up is always up, even when it would make more sense for it to be down, or backward, or sideways. Yet children can see the functionality of grief or understand the complexities of a parent's love without hesitating. They find their way through. They deduce.

Having really enjoyed the rest of the Wayward Children series, I wasn't as hyped about this one - Lundy wasn't one of the charact ...more

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Jan 09, 2019 Veronique rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019, stars-4-0

These novellas from Seanan McGuire have become a yearly pleasure! Each time, the author crafts a very different world, with its own rules and logic, but always fascinating. This is even more true in this instalment.

Katherine Lundy, an 8-year-old girl, doesn’t really fit in her life. Bookworm, daughter of the school’s principal, she prefers to stay on her own and seek refuge in the fictional worlds provided in her books. Is it a surprise that one day a door appears and takes her to a ‘real' ficti ...more

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