The eighth installment of the Wayward Children series was certainly an emotional gut punch for me. Having said that, it might also be one of my favorites in the series. We meet Antoinette or “Antsy” to her loving parents, whom we briefly met in the previous book. We learn about her life before she came to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Antsy lives a happy life until the sudden death of her father. When her mother remarries shortly after, the man she marries drives […]

This seventh installment of Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series does not take us to another world. Instead, we visit the Whitethorn Institute which is the polar opposite of Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. While Eleanor West’s school caters to the many quirks of the children who have returned from other places, The Whitethorn Institute does everything it can to wring out all thoughts of other worlds from its pupils and return them to the “real” world. It emphasizes conformity and rationality above all else. […]

This is the fourth book in the Wayward Children series. It follows the exploits of children who have gone through doorways into other worlds and then come back. In this book we learn the origin story of Lundy, who was a teacher at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, which houses these strange youths. Lundy was an interesting character who we don’t get enough of in the first book. Eight year old Catherine Lundy has made her peace with the fact that she doesn’t fit […]