Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Eleanor West runs the Home for Wayward Children, a last hope for
the children who reside there. All the
residents believe that they have visited a land where they truly belonged and
have through banishment or mistake ended up back in this world: think
Wonderland or Never Never Land or even Oz.
All the children want is to return to the land that no one but they can
accept as real. Or at least that is what
they thought until they meet the other residents of Eleanor’s home – every
resident has been elsewhere, each one a different elsewhere and they
desperately want to return. And Eleanor
understands having left a land she loves and will try to get these children
where they belong or give them safe haven in our world.
Things seem fine in the Home until shortly after the newest
arrival, Nancy, begins to settle in to her new surroundings. First one student is found murdered and
mutilated, then another. Who is to
blame? Can the school remain open? Will anyone ever find their doorway home?
More proof that good things come in small packages. I honestly don’t know what the difference is
between a novella and a short novel, but at 173 pages I think this book could
fall into either category. Whatever it
is it is an enjoyable short read, especially for fans of Neil Gaiman’s dark
urban fantasy.
