Children of the Doors know about being mislaid… Antoinette Ricci, better known as Antsy, returns to the world of the Wayward Children. Only this time she’s dragging along most of the main characters of the previous stories as they break the “No Quests” rule of their school for former fairy tale adventurers. People who have
The first thing Antoinette Ricci ever lost was her father… Seanan McGuire released a new installment in the Wayward Children series in January and I…hadn’t yet read the one that came before. So, let’s take care of another review in my list of Books I Really Should Have Read Ages Ago. Antsy’s life from age
Even here in the Up-and-Under, where water could have opinions and people could be seasons, there was a cost for the things people might want to give you. Nothing came for free. A. Deborah Baker (pen name of Seanan McGuire) continues the adventures of Avery and Zib in the second book of The Up-and-Under series:
It was a morning unlike any other. It was simply that no one had realized it yet. It was supposed to be an ordinary day at school for two ordinary children who were the same age and lived on the same street and were never destined to meet. Instead the both of them climbed a
“Welcome to the Hooflands, ” said Pansy. “We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.” Seanan McGuire is up to Book 6 in Wayward Children, the series where children stumble across one of an infinite number of doors, each one opening to a different magical realm. This installment features the
TIMELINE: FIVE MINUTES TOO LATE, THIRTY SECONDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD. Next up for the Hugo-nominations is Seanan McGuire’s novel Middlegame, something which I really should have read during last October’s Scary Books month, because oh boy does this ever qualify. The plan begins in 1886, with the brilliant alchemist Asphodel who’s going
Once a wayward child, always a wayward child Most of the students at Eleanor West’s school never find the door back to the land of their magical childhood adventures, but the Wolcott sisters are two of the lucky(?) ones. When we last saw them, Jacqueline was carrying the dead body of her twin sister Jillian
It’s been a pretty chaotic year, what with family medical emergencies and other craziness (said other craziness being…more family medical emergencies), so I’m pretty happy to see the last of 2019. One good thing that 2019 did have was some fantastic books. Click the jump for a rundown of the five best (“best” here meaning
All these stories take place outside my pre-existing universes – so no Fighting Pumpkins, no October Daye, no Velveteen. They are quick glimpses of another room, with a door that will close in short order. It’s the last day of 2019, and there are so many fantastic books I haven’t gotten around to yet. I