Wayward Children – Page 3 – Cannonball Read 17

My Portal to Another Land would definitely not lead to Candy Land

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

December 22, 2019 by Jen K Leave a Comment

While the second Wayward Child novella delved deeper into the backstory of two characters from the first novel. This novella, on the other hand, takes the reader back to the school grounds to meet new children trying to find their way home while also checking in on old characters. Cora and Nadya are two new characters, and they were called to magical realms where they had strong connections to water, Cora as a mermaid, and Nadya as a Drowning Girl. As a result, it is […]

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 […]

“I’ve Been Expelled From Heaven, I Think I was In Heaven”

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

February 4, 2019 by Jen K 1 Comment

I’m not sure if I have been in a book slump or of my mind hasn’t been able to focus due to all the things going on at work at the beginning of the year, or if it was inability to find a book that could hold my attention. It was probably a hybrid of the two, since I’m still in a very picky mood about books, but count on Seanan McGuire, a true and tried favorite, to get me out of my slump. I’m rather late getting to […]

A New Favorite Series [UPDATED]

June 30, 2018 by KM Bezner 1 Comment

This series is everything I wanted (and more) from Miss Peregrine’s…of which I was not a fan. The first book, Every Heart a Doorway—and how can you not love a book with that title—wasn’t my favorite, but was special because of what it was: a love letter to days spent wandering through attics and cellars, woods and riverbeds, and all the other mysterious places I spent my childhood in search of that One Magic Thing. I never knew what I was looking for when I […]

A more melancholy entry in the Wayward Children series.

April 14, 2018 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

Down Among the Sticks and Bones is the second novella in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. The first, Every Heart a Doorway, took me utterly by surprise when I first read it, and I loved it. It was a touching, gentle story about children and teens who had once been whisked through magical doorways to fairytale lands, only to be returned. Jack and Jill while only side characters in the original, had potentially one of the more intriguing backstories, and I was quite excited to […]

In Candyland the Baker is God

January 10, 2018 by melanir Leave a Comment

I wasn’t too fond of Seanan McGuire’s Down Among the Sticks and Stones, so when I got the notification that Beneath the Sugar Sky had been released and was on my kindle I wasn’t quite as excited as I normally am for one of her books. I mean, obviously I still preordered it, but I wasn’t happy about it. However, I have some downtime right now and I wasn’t feeling any of the other four books I’m currently reading so I picked it up. It […]

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