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A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found.

Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go.

If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here.
If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back.
And the headphones that you swore that this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it….

Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she finds that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds.

And stepping through those doors exacts a price.

Lost in the Moment and Found tells us that childhood and innocence, once lost, can never be found.

First quarter. I really feel as if I should have read all the others (I think the characters feature throughout) but the first section creates a gradual sense of unease. Antsy’s initial unease could be put down to the trauma of being in the shop when her dad died, but the slow unravelling of her stepfather’s game-playing makes my blood boil.

Second quarter. Antsy passes her test with flying colours, but I can sense her confusion. How would you expect a nine year old to make a different decision?

Third quarter. The passing of time is skewed, and her growing uncertainty about the place suggests her time here could be coming to an end.

Finished. Review on home page. Such a range of emotions experienced during this.

Part 1:
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I kept waiting for the ball to drop and it was not necessarily how I expected it to happen, but it still did.
Antsy is quite mature for her age, I was surprised about that.
I guess we'll soon go to the Shop, because part 1 is about 26% of the book, and that seems to be the biggest part. I'm curious about it.
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Ending
These books are hard to discuss while reading, because everything builds up and since they're so short you're left with all comments at the ending
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I liked how it ended and the way Antsy carried herself throghout the whole book. I agree that the passing of time and her doubts abuot the Shop were skewed, but I liked that aspect and wished it could have been explored more. As I said, Antsy was a very matured child and I hope we see her in future books, because I am really glad she found the school at the end and I hope she can have some semblance of a normal-ish life there now.
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