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congratulations! semifinalist in goodreads' best fantasy category 2016!
"Before I went through that doorway, I knew there was no such thing as a portal to another world. Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong. Why does that mean I can't go back?"
i started a review for this book when i read it three months ago, but i kept putting it off and as the pub date grew ever closer, i started panicking with "oh no, i loved this so m ...more
"Before I went through that doorway, I knew there was no such thing as a portal to another world. Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong. Why does that mean I can't go back?"
i started a review for this book when i read it three months ago, but i kept putting it off and as the pub date grew ever closer, i started panicking with "oh no, i loved this so m ...more
beautiful, the only flaw is that it was a short story, not that it wasn't a story and not that the characters were not real, it's just that i wanted more.
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Years ago Eleanor West went through an unexpected doorway and found herself in a magical world. Since returning to our mundane world, she's made it her life's mission to create a healing haven for other children who have returned from magical worlds. Nancy was just pushed out of the Halls of the Dead, where she served gratefully and well for what seemed like years. Now that she's back, her parents don't understand her and she's miserable, surrounded by people who expect her to act like a living
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"She was a story, not an epilogue."
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children is the last stop for the girls—because they are overwhelmingly girls—who managed to slip away unnoticed and pass through a magic door into another world.
They never find the same things in their worlds. Some are Nonsense while others thrive on the rules of Logic. Some are Wicked and others are high Virtue. But even with their differences the worlds all have something in common: for the children who find them they feel li ...more
Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children is the last stop for the girls—because they are overwhelmingly girls—who managed to slip away unnoticed and pass through a magic door into another world.
They never find the same things in their worlds. Some are Nonsense while others thrive on the rules of Logic. Some are Wicked and others are high Virtue. But even with their differences the worlds all have something in common: for the children who find them they feel li ...more
Three stars for the great premise. But there were problems in the execution, including an unconvincing plot.
This is freaking gorgeous and lovely. I read most of this on the train between DC and Philadelphia and back again, and despite being uber tired, I was sucked into this world of a special school for the children who traveled to other worlds and were then returned to this world, and all they wanted was to go back.
A beautiful and surprisingly dark story of finding your own home and being yourself.
A beautiful and surprisingly dark story of finding your own home and being yourself.
28 Reads in 28 Days challenge: 1/28
I had written a lot of words about my journey to finally reading this book, but then I had to put my phone down to assist with bath time. So yeah...there are lots of great reviews already (like popular reviewer, karen's). I was transported to a new place (many new places even) and loved every second of it once I finally sat down to read it (distraction free is key).
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Seemed promising, and if this is a series (which, according to the author's page, it is) I'll read the next ones...but it did feel a little like a Miss Peregrine ripoff.
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