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My Little Pony meets Gulliver’s Travels

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

March 26, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I think that Across the Green Grass Fields, the sixth Wayward Children novella, might be the first fully stand-alone story set in the same world as the previous six. This had so much potential and the world that Regan wanders into is fascinating. Problem is that there is so little plot, not much world or character development, and the whole thing feels kind of rushed. The basic premise is still there; not long after a major personal trauma the protagonist finds a door to a […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, Across the Green Grass Fields, fairy tale retelling, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children 6

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:26 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, Across the Green Grass Fields, fairy tale retelling, Seanan McGuire, Wayward Children 6 ·
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

March 9, 2021 by murderofcrows Leave a Comment

For everyone who ever felt that some other world was their home, that the rules and ways of this one made no sense, Every Heart a Doorway offers a waystation for the weary traveller on their search. Eleanor West runs a home for wayward children, mostly girls but a few boys too who have tumbled back through doors from worlds that felt like home to find themselves unwillingly returned to this one. Each feels a terrible grief that they had, just for a time, belonged somewhere only […]

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, LGBTQ, Seanan McGuire, YA

murderofcrows's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, LGBTQ, Seanan McGuire, YA ·
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Across the Green Grass Fields- Yeesssss Seanan YEEESSSSSSS

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

January 23, 2021 by NatteringwPride 2 Comments

Goddammit Seanan McGuire you’ve done it again. There’s a reason she’s one of my all time favorite authors and it’s because she never fails to disappoint. Seanan has a few different series, all of which I love. Across the Green Grass Fields belongs to her Doorway novellas. Essentially, Seanan created a meta fiction for all of those stories of kids stumbling into other worlds and having adventures. In her universe, children find their doors. These doors, if entered, sweep the child away to one of […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Seanan McGuire

NatteringwPride's CBR13 Review No:11 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Seanan McGuire ·
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Doomed to be a hero

An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

January 17, 2021 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

Things get pretty dark in the third October Daye novel by Seanan McGuire, An Artificial Night. October aka Toby is a fae changeling living in San Francisco. She moonlights as a detective but officially serves as a knight to the Duke of Shadowed Hills, the nearby fae kingdom. The book opens with her best friend’s son being stolen away in the night and the daughter left in a mysterious coma. Toby feels a magical residue but is completely stumped. Before she can get a grip […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: artificial night, fae, kidnapping, magic, October Daye, Seanan McGuire, the wild hunt

teresaelectro's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: artificial night, fae, kidnapping, magic, October Daye, Seanan McGuire, the wild hunt ·
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Sweet but not sickly so

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

November 28, 2020 by TheShitWizard Leave a Comment

Beneath the Sugar Sky is the third instalment in the Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, letting us visit other worlds in this incredibly diverse and imagination universe. Children have long disappeared through doorways and tumbled down holes in the ground and into adventure, and sometimes those children come back. Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children gives those children a place where they can be themselves, away from prying eyes and worried parents who’d prefer their children were just their old selves again.  In this […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, coming-of-age, fairytale, Fiction, Seanan McGuire

TheShitWizard's CBR12 Review No:43 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, coming-of-age, fairytale, Fiction, Seanan McGuire ·
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Another faerie murder mystery for October Daye

A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire

October 31, 2020 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire is the second book in the October Daye series. I reviewed Rosemary and Rue for CBR11, so it’s only natural I pick the series back up for CBR 12. This novel finds the changeling Toby stumbling upon an unexpected murder mystery in Silicon Valley. As his knight, Toby can’t refuse a request from Sylvester, the Duke of Shadowed Hills. His kingdom is the faerie land closest to San Francisco. He wants her to check on his niece, January. She […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: a local habitation, book two, cbr12bingo, fae, magic, October Daye, Seanan McGuire, Series, supernatural detective, Urban Fantasy

teresaelectro's CBR12 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: a local habitation, book two, cbr12bingo, fae, magic, October Daye, Seanan McGuire, Series, supernatural detective, Urban Fantasy ·
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