In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

RATING: 🌝🌝🌝🌚🌚(3/5 moons)

Published: January 08, 2019

Publisher: Tor.com

Format: e-Book

Pages: 203

 

 

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“… fairness is a subjective thing, not a fixed target.”

SYNOPSIS:

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.

When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she’s found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.

Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

 

RATING: 🌝🌝🌝🌝🌚(4/5 moons)

Published: January 09, 2018

Publisher: Tor.com

Format: e-Book

Pages: 174

 

 

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“There is kindness in the world, if we know how to look for it. If we never start denying it the doors.”

 

SYNOPSIS:

When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)

If she can’t find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests…

A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.

Warning: May contain nuts.

 

Down Among Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

 

RATING: 🌝🌝🌝🌝🌝 (5/5 moons)

Publisher: Tor.com

Published: June 13, 2017

Format: eBook

Pages: 189

 

 

“Time is the alchemy that turns compassion into love…”

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SYNOPSIS:

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.

This is the story of what happened first…

Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.

Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you’ve got.

They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted.

They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.