Michael Barnes
Those who have been reading this series this synopsis makes sense for those that haven't read the other 10 books in the Wayward children series Why haven't you?
"It follows Nancy Whitman, a girl who found her true home in the Halls of the Dead, a realm where residents become living statues, holding perfect stillness to halt time and camouflage themselves from restless ghosts. Nancy’s peaceful eternity is shattered when those ghosts, break free and begin slaughtering the motionless residents. Forced to flee, Nancy returns to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children—the school for those who’ve lost their portal worlds—to seek help. Reuniting with friends Kade, Sumi, Christopher, and Talia, she breaks the school’s “no quests” rule. Together, this makeshift team must travel back to the underworld, confront the army of the unquiet dead, and find a way to seal them away forever". MD Touzani of 'your summary'
What is so satisfying reading these series for me is the reoccurring characters, those who you encounter in limited ways they are still crafted and distinct but you don't fully understand what made them in this story like Talia, until they get revealed in their own quest, like Nancy Whitman in Every Heart a Doorway, we know why she sought the land of the dead and became such a perfect statue, Kade Bronson's quilt revealed in Mislaid In Parts Half-Known and everyone's favourite Chaos Goblin Onishi Sumi Beneath the Sugar Sky. And who is Sumi you ask? In her own words to Talia...
"I am a shallow, candy coloured pixie flitting through world, doing nothing of weight or meaning".
But like the fool in Shakespeare I love reading her because she speaks the truth.
There are other recurring characters but they are in the realm of spoilers so they shall pass unamend.
I hope Talia gets more of her story soon, I need more Asian women characters who confound the western expectations of 'quite, delicate' (see Sumi above) one of her lines in this story "Who looks at a problem like 'the dead are killing our guests' and decides that the answer is a worldwide game of freeze tag with fatal consequences for the losers? It's not... it's not kind"
Please let there be more books in this series
Those who have been reading this series this synopsis makes sense for those that haven't read the other 10 books in the Wayward children series Why haven't you?
"It follows Nancy Whitman, a girl who found her true home in the Halls of the Dead, a realm where residents become living statues, holding perfect stillness to halt time and camouflage themselves from restless ghosts. Nancy’s peaceful eternity is shattered when those ghosts, break free and begin slaughtering the motionless residents. Forced to flee, Nancy returns to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children—the school for those who’ve lost their portal worlds—to seek help. Reuniting with friends Kade, Sumi, Christopher, and Talia, she breaks the school’s “no quests” rule. Together, this makeshift team must travel back to the underworld, confront the army of the unquiet dead, and find a way to seal them away forever". MD Touzani of 'your summary'
What is so satisfying reading these series for me is the reoccurring characters, those who you encounter in limited ways they are still crafted and distinct but you don't fully understand what made them in this story like Talia, until they get revealed in their own quest, like Nancy Whitman in Every Heart a Doorway, we know why she sought the land of the dead and became such a perfect statue, Kade Bronson's quilt revealed in Mislaid In Parts Half-Known and everyone's favourite Chaos Goblin Onishi Sumi Beneath the Sugar Sky. And who is Sumi you ask? In her own words to Talia...
"I am a shallow, candy coloured pixie flitting through world, doing nothing of weight or meaning".
But like the fool in Shakespeare I love reading her because she speaks the truth.
There are other recurring characters but they are in the realm of spoilers so they shall pass unamend.
I hope Talia gets more of her story soon, I need more Asian women characters who confound the western expectations of 'quite, delicate' (see Sumi above) one of her lines in this story "Who looks at a problem like 'the dead are killing our guests' and decides that the answer is a worldwide game of freeze tag with fatal consequences for the losers? It's not... it's not kind"
Please let there be more books in this series