This book contains examples of the following tropes: Who is it? What do they want? And can they be stopped before it's too late? Nancy is just settling in when a classmate is brutally murdered. There she quickly befriends several other students: Sumi, a madcap girl who went to someplace like Wonderland Kade, the exiled Goblin Prince in Waiting Jack and Jill, twins who went to a horror-movie world called the Moors and Christopher, who became engaged in the world of Día de Muertos. Her parents don't understand why she won't eat a full meal or wear bright colours, so they pack her off to boarding school. When she asked to stay forever, the Lord told her to be sure-and sent her back to Earth. She went through a doorway to the Halls of the Dead. What happens to children who go through the wardrobe, or fall through the looking glass, and then come back? Well, some of them go to Eleanor West's school, where no one tries to make them be normal or tells them their worlds weren't real, and where they might just find a way back home. “You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.Every Heart a Doorway is the first novel in the Wayward Children series written by Seanan McGuire. But when you find yourself wondering ‘is that a door?’, you’ll know. It will move you in ways you might not realise. Each and every word has earned its place in this novella.įans of fantasy should give this book a chance. It is tightly and taughtly told, sparing no room for frivolous feelings or backstories. I read them all in quick succession and each is as beautiful a tale as Nancy’s.Įvery Heart a Doorway is haunting and beautiful, melancholy and mysterious. I was delighted to discover this book is the first in a series which takes us behind the doors of the other Wayward Children. They are dealing with the grief of losing their true homes, but they alsoĭeal with very real issues of sexuality and belonging, something every teen can

These are teenagers struggling to find a place they can fit Instead, as we watch the characters interact with one another to try and solve them, their voices and desolate stories carry the narrative. Though these murders are not particulary hard to solve they are not the point of the story. The plot centres around the ritualistic murders of students.

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