In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I honestly don’t know if I liked this or not. It felt very incomplete and rather than feeling like it was about a very fair and rule-based world, it felt very arbitrary. Possibly 2 stars. The first book has been, and remains, my favorite. In other words, the school from book one seems better to me than the worlds that the children prefer.

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Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Fun YA-fantasy-horror book. More consistently good than the first one of the Wayward Children series. The main thing I find problematic with both in the series is the inexplicable way otherwise fairly normal people turn to murder without much compunction. That doesn't seem realistic to me. I get that the whole thing isn't realistic because it's a fantasy novel but I do still expect the characters to behave like actual people.

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