January 2025 Reread: Rereading this book feels like I'm Bob Odenkirk in Little Women hugging his daughters and saying "my little women", like these are all my children and I love them so much. 

January 2024 Reread: I adore the whole Wayward Children series and this one isn't even my favourite, but rereading this specific book really is like coming home. It's so familiar, but the specifics always blur so there's something new every time.



content warnings: death, violence, gore
representation: asexual main character, trans side character, latino side character

I finally got my hands on the first book in the series and I'm happy to report that it's worth the hype everyone gives it.

Seanan McGuire's writing is beautiful, particularly in her descriptions of the world's the characters go to. I really want an entire book about Nancy or Kade's life in their respective doorway world's, that's how wonderfully they were described in such a short amount of time.

The mystery was fun and engaging, even if I did figure out who the murderer was a few chapters before the reveal. To be honest, my favourite parts of this book weren't the really plotty parts: they were the bits with worldbuilding and the characters bonding.

The scenes with some variation of Nancy, Kade, Jack and Christopher just sitting and talking were the best of the entire book, in my opinion. Even if Nancy and Christopher didn't really leave much of an effect on me, they were still great characters to spend a short amount of time with.

I'm going to be getting the second book as soon as possible and I can promise you that I'm going to sell my soul to Seanan McGuire sometime in the near future.