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In a drowned girl’s world

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire

January 14, 2025 by Jen K Leave a Comment

This is the 10th novel in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. The series is about a boarding school for children that have returned from quests to other worlds, like Narnia and are now back – some experienced years of life, only to find only seconds had passed in their original world, returning to their younger bodies, others find themselves back at home years after their disappearances to families that don’t know what to do with them, unable to explain what happened to them. In some […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: magical doorways, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

Jen K's CBR17 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: magical doorways, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

August 24, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

This is the second novella in the Wayward Children series, and I was slightly surprised with the topic. The first novella was about a boarding school for children who return from magical worlds reached by cupboards and secret passages, and are having trouble adjusting to life back home because they want to go back.  I expected that the second novella would be more adventures at the boarding school, or possibly explore the idea of other schools.  After all, this is for children that want to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: alternate worlds, down among the sticks and bones, mad scientist, magical doorways, monsters, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:35 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: alternate worlds, down among the sticks and bones, mad scientist, magical doorways, monsters, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children ·
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Unfortunately, This One Was a Miss for Me

You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno

July 29, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

Bingo Square: Youths! I was intrigued by MrsLangdonAlger’s review of this, but despite her warning of how it was hard to describe and defied expectations, the novel description on Amazon made me expect a certain narrative flow, and as a result, something about the ending didn’t quite work for me. It starts off so great! Magpie or Mags or Margaret, depending on who she is interacting with, is a sophomore in high school and close to failing.  Her family life has collapsed in the last […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr11bingo, high school politics, Katrina Leno, magical doorways, you must not miss, Youths!

Jen K's CBR11 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: cbr11bingo, high school politics, Katrina Leno, magical doorways, you must not miss, Youths! ·
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