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marita379 's review for:
Every Heart a Doorway
by Seanan McGuire
This book felt like walking home after getting caught in a thunderstorm, taking off your wet clothes, and get into a nice, hot shower. And no, I am not just talking about the diversity issues, although, thank you seanan mcguire for giving me Kade and Nancy, thank you thank you thank you
I'm talking about the book itself, and the stories it tells.
There are worlds, other than our own, as every fantasy reader knows. And you can access them through doorways of one kind or another. The kids in Every Heart a Doorway have all fallen through doors like these and then have been spat back out again for one reason or another, into our own little world. They are not happy and how could they be? They went to a Faerie or an Underworld, a Wonderland, a magical kingdom, they've killed goblin princes and been turned into mad scientists there is nothing these kids can do to forget because they don't want to.
This isn't Susan, "choosing to walk away from Narnia", no. Theirs is a greater tragedy. Because they want, they ache, they need to return.
And what Seanan McGuire does and she does really well is, in fact, validate this desire.
This isn't a book that will tell you to get your head out of the clouds and get to work on how to be normal again.
This is a book that will tell you that yes, maybe you can go back, you really, truly, can go back to the place where you belong and have always belonged and you don't owe this world that doesn't know what to do with you anything.
And I didn't know how much that was something I needed to read.
The ending, when you read it, might seem a bit unsatisfying at first.
It did to me.
Thank you for this book.
I'm talking about the book itself, and the stories it tells.
There are worlds, other than our own, as every fantasy reader knows. And you can access them through doorways of one kind or another. The kids in Every Heart a Doorway have all fallen through doors like these and then have been spat back out again for one reason or another, into our own little world. They are not happy and how could they be? They went to a Faerie or an Underworld, a Wonderland, a magical kingdom, they've killed goblin princes and been turned into mad scientists there is nothing these kids can do to forget because they don't want to.
This isn't Susan, "choosing to walk away from Narnia", no. Theirs is a greater tragedy. Because they want, they ache, they need to return.
And what Seanan McGuire does and she does really well is, in fact, validate this desire.
This isn't a book that will tell you to get your head out of the clouds and get to work on how to be normal again.
This is a book that will tell you that yes, maybe you can go back, you really, truly, can go back to the place where you belong and have always belonged and you don't owe this world that doesn't know what to do with you anything.
And I didn't know how much that was something I needed to read.
The ending, when you read it, might seem a bit unsatisfying at first.
It did to me.
Spoiler
What do you mean Nancy goes back? But what about Kade? What about the school? he was making plans for the future wasn't she? She was learning to let go! It READS unsatisfying. But is it really? This is a girl who will be happy again. She was accepted back. She is, once again, at that place where she was happy, exactly as she was. What better happy ending could be hope for for her? What other happy ending is there?Thank you for this book.