Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire is one of. This gothic charmer is a love letter to anyone who’s ever felt out of place. Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series (TVs True Blood). Being different is all these kids have ever known, but as much as they pine for their other worlds, they ultimately find comfort in one another. McGuire (the October Daye series) puts her own inimitable spin on portal fantasy, adding horror elements to the mix, and her characters are strange and charming. The students include twins called Jack and Jill a boy who can speak to bones and Sumi, Nancy’s roommate, who comes from a world of nonsense and speaks in lilting, looping curlicues of words. If only Nancy could return to the Halls of the Dead and the waiting arms of that dimension’s lord, she could be happy, but first she’ll have to help the others track down a killer who’s taking something different from each victim. The first in a novella series best characterized as post-portal fantasy: What happens after the rabbit hole. When Nancy arrives at Eleanor’s manor, unrest seems close behind. by Seanan McGuire RELEASE DATE: April 5, 2016. Eleanor West has spent her life helping kids who discover secret doors to beguiling worlds and long to return to them. A boarding school offering sanctuary for very special teens is threatened by a series of murders in McGuire’s darkly hypnotic standalone fantasy.
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