Book Review
Jul. 7th, 2023 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariLost in the Moment and Found
by Seanan McGuire
This is the most recent volume in the Wayward Children series, which I have enjoyed a lot. Here we get the backstory of Antoinette, nicknamed Antsy. When she is six, her father dies suddenly and her mother remarries a man who turns out to be a danger to Antsy*. She runs away and finds a door to a magical junk shop that is at least partly a repository for lost things. The shop is also a nexus for doors into other worlds and Antsy gets to explore numerous places during her time there.
Lost in the Moment and Found is very good, although it departs from the whimsy and adventure of most of the previous books. It takes on the more serious issue of child abuse and also goes deeper into how the Doors work and the consequences of going through them. I do like the way McGuire addresses abuse and its fallout, both with realism and with metaphor and magic. I also like how she portrays Antsy as very aware of her own boundaries and what's going on around her while also still being very much a child.
*McGuire is very clear in her author's note that Antsy leaves before anything can really happen. Thus the opening chapters involve some moderate creepy suspense, with any actual horror averted.
by Seanan McGuire
This is the most recent volume in the Wayward Children series, which I have enjoyed a lot. Here we get the backstory of Antoinette, nicknamed Antsy. When she is six, her father dies suddenly and her mother remarries a man who turns out to be a danger to Antsy*. She runs away and finds a door to a magical junk shop that is at least partly a repository for lost things. The shop is also a nexus for doors into other worlds and Antsy gets to explore numerous places during her time there.
Lost in the Moment and Found is very good, although it departs from the whimsy and adventure of most of the previous books. It takes on the more serious issue of child abuse and also goes deeper into how the Doors work and the consequences of going through them. I do like the way McGuire addresses abuse and its fallout, both with realism and with metaphor and magic. I also like how she portrays Antsy as very aware of her own boundaries and what's going on around her while also still being very much a child.
*McGuire is very clear in her author's note that Antsy leaves before anything can really happen. Thus the opening chapters involve some moderate creepy suspense, with any actual horror averted.
