McGuire is back with a new story, featuring some familiar faces and some newbies too. If you enjoyed the first two books - Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones - I see no reason not to like this. This universe is brimming with the timeless magic of fairy tales, and it seems I just can't get enough. It's not often I give books in a series three five stars in a row, but these stories just speak to an inner part of me - the curious, feminist adventurer who longed for nothing more than to follow Lucy through that wardrobe into Narnia, or Harry through the barrier leading to Platform 9 3/4. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the possible surrenders and shows them the way to go home. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and peek beneath the bridge. Warning: May contain nuts.īut children, ah, children. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests.Ī tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the 'real' world. Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages.

Beneath the sugar sky by seanan mcguire