It ended in tragedy, and I wanted to cry and needed a hug. Nine-year-olds up against such a creature, and a regal one at that. When I imagined Lundy, Moon and Mockery defeating the Wasp Queen, it was at first exhilarating and and quickly tragic. As with other fantasy novels, I set the book down often to imagine things that were described in a sentence. For a novella plotted and formatted like this, that's actually brilliant, but ugh, such disappointment. McGuire uses paragraph-long descriptions of epic quests as chapter or even paragraph transitions. Instead, Lundy goes back and forth a lot to trade and barter items that are of little value in the human world, but high value in the Goblin Market. I went in eagerly anticipating breakneck speed-paced descriptions of grand, strategic quests.
This book did not resemble my headcanon in any way, and I was disappointed. My headcanon instantly blossomed, then crystallized. In an earlier novella in the series, Lundy said a quick sentence about how she had traveled a lot between her door and this world. While this review indicates a 2020 read date, I read it when it first came out and reread it every year.Ĭontent warning: I discuss domestic violence and the death of a child by a queen in this. As with the previous installments, there is commentary on the modern family, and family values in general. Books that make you question your own self, and if you are making the best choices for you. You will adore these books if you love poetic fantasy, that speaks in truths, yet riddles. Each of them are making their own choices, and all have unique traits, that would have changed the events had they not been there. The cast of characters in her door world, plus her original world are well crafted and bring so much to the story. Similar to the children we've met before her, but unique enough to be truly hers. As with book 2, we are following Lundy through her door, to make impossible choices over the course of 10 short years. I absolutely adore the way this series is laid out. With each book that leads us through a door we get to the see the world that meshes so well with the child, it becomes more apparent how hard this choice is to make. So many doors and choices, how can one be sure? It's too perfect to be true, and you know you're more sure than you could ever be but still that one drop of you wants to have more time to decide. Each of these book is more impossible to put down than the last.
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