Book Review
Jun. 22nd, 2022 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariAcross the Green Grass Fields
by Seanan McGuire
This next book in the Wayward Children series is unconnected to the previous volumes. Regan is a young girl who loves horses and has loving parents but is having a serious social crisis at school in which she finds herself abruptly ostracized. She stumbles through a door that brings her to the Hooflands, a world populated by centaurs, unicorns, minotaurs, and other horse-like creatures of myth. Human visitors are rare, and they are thought to be destined to be heroes. Regan is taken in by a centaur clan and grows up with them. When the heroic destiny catches up with her, she finds out that not everything is as it seems.
This book was very beautiful, and charmingly domestic, as the story concentrates on Regan's life with the centaurs rather than on her actions as a heroine. It's a warm and enchanting examination of found family, and the roles of destiny and choice.
by Seanan McGuire
This next book in the Wayward Children series is unconnected to the previous volumes. Regan is a young girl who loves horses and has loving parents but is having a serious social crisis at school in which she finds herself abruptly ostracized. She stumbles through a door that brings her to the Hooflands, a world populated by centaurs, unicorns, minotaurs, and other horse-like creatures of myth. Human visitors are rare, and they are thought to be destined to be heroes. Regan is taken in by a centaur clan and grows up with them. When the heroic destiny catches up with her, she finds out that not everything is as it seems.
This book was very beautiful, and charmingly domestic, as the story concentrates on Regan's life with the centaurs rather than on her actions as a heroine. It's a warm and enchanting examination of found family, and the roles of destiny and choice.
