They are all looking for their door to return to where they were happiest. Everybody went to a different place and had to come back. Nancy arrives at her new school, where everybody is somewhat like her. I can’t put my finger on why, that’s just the general feeling I took away from it. In the hands of Cat Valente, this idea would have probably turned into a whole series of beautiful, heartbreaking books, but Seanan McGuire (as capable a writer as she is) just is no Cat Valente. And they never truly find their way back into our world because that other place is what they think of as home. Children disappear to magic lands, parallel universes, the underworld, a palace of clouds to have adventures, fall in love, come of age – only to be thrown out eventually. Here’s an idea that is so perfect, so full of potential that just thinking of it makes me weep a little. 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 things. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.īut Nancy’s arrival marks a change at the Home.
The children under Miss West’s care understand all too well.
The things she’s experienced… they change a person. Except even a writer with a fanbase as large as McGuires can write something bad every once in a while.įirst sentence: The girls were never present for the entrance interviews.Ĭhildren 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.īut magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. It has Seanan McGuire’s name on it, so it must be a hit. Tor.com had been advertising this book for months, it is the only one of the novellas to come out in hardcover as well as paperback and e-book, and that does send a clear message to readers.
This is a severe case of over-hyped book.
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