Book Review: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Rating: 4.5 stars!

Loved it! Probably the best novella ever!

Every Heart a Doorway is about a bunch of kids who has come back from fantasy worlds. The main character in the story is Nancy, a girl who came back from the Underworld and wants more than anything to go back. She can't stand the bright colours she used to wear and just wants the stillness and quiet of the Underworld. Her parents send her to a home where she meets kids like her and she feels like she is understood. When children start getting murdered, she and her new friends has to find the murderer.

Highly recommend if you are looking for something interesting and short.

The concept of this book is so freaking awesome! When you think about it, these children from these famous stories come back to the real world where they have no power, which makes for a really interesting story. For a novella, you get a lot of suspense, action and character detail. I loved learning about the worlds the children went to, especially Nancy's (it was very Greek mythology based, so I was obsessed). There is a lot of representation as well; there are transgender and asexual characters.

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