Every Heart A Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)

by Seanan McGuire

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Needed a break from the Seven Wonders series and picked up two books even though I hoped I wouldn't pick anything new, I'm now officially sure that reading two at a time is never a good thing for me because I get lazy, if one is more enjoyable than the other I tend to focus on it instead and my progress is insanely slow because of reason 1 that it's laughable. Sooooooo no more reading more than one book at a time for me lol and without further ado, Every Heart A Doorway was an insanely fun book to read.

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It's been a long time that I read a book that was just a standalone without at least two other books to follow before finishing up the telling of its story so when I heard that this is a standalone I was ecstatic, the books to be read following this one are also standalones, all they share is that they happened in the same verse. This brings in a very interesting outlook to what happens after the adventure is over in books that require their heroes to take a trip to a different world. I really enjoyed the possibilities this unlocked, the multiple worlds that were sort of mentioned here and there with them being either nonsense like Wonderland or Logical ones like JRR Tolkien's Middle Earth for example. That's not where the possibilities end, the worlds are even more diverse when you bring in virtue or wickedness as if they're points of a compass.

Like Seanan McGuire could seriously write as many book as her she pleases with how huge she made the possibility of this world to be. One other thing I enjoyed in this book were how going into these worlds changed the kids entering them, like staying in a nonsense world for too long could make you just as the word implies when coming out, bringing in techniques that only existed in that world to this one or just finding their place to be that their hidden personalities when they were in the real world becomes their only way of living as it should be. This identity issue if you will was such an interesting outlook to the book just for the sake of seeing how different people deal with different things.

The characters are the third aspect to this book that I enjoyed very much, they all had these little quirks to them that makes following one or the other a very interesting event. My favourite by far though is a spoiler in itself but let's just say that the next book in the series is centered on them so that makes me very excited for July, IIRC it's when the next one comes out. The book is pretty short so fleshing out the characters in a very broad way isn't going to happen for every single one of them which is why by the end it feels like there were some who got the spotlight more than others. But like I said before they all have these little things about them that makes them feel memorable in some way, not just names on page or attached to an event sort of thing.

The horror aspect of the book isn't exactly scary, it's more on the creepy side than anything but that didn't really take away anything from my enjoyment of it. As for who is going around killing them, personally I had a strong hunch after the second murder was done and they were discussing it and it was solidified when the "pointing" was done. I didn't expect it to end that way though, seems like people's lives aren't worth much around here but again loved the book very much. Would love to see more world being explored and honestly I just can't wait to see how this continues.

Final rating: 5/5