Every Heart a Doorway

Charming, delightful, clever, moving, gorgeous writing. A friend recommended this to me ages ago, and she was so right. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

Teenager Nancy is sent by her parents to Eleanor West's school in order to help her get over an experience. An experience during which she was gone for months and came back irrevocably changed. Ms West's school purports to help children like Nancy.

This school is for children who find doorways into other worlds and are sent back. The school helps the to cope with the loss of the world, and how to reintegrate into the known world.

And then people start dying horribly.

I loved the characters in this book. Some people might complain about heavy-handed SJW preaching. They can take a long walk off a short pier. The characters include a variety of ethnicities (I hope there will be more multi-ethnic characters), and LGBTQIA characters. There are statements about feminism and masculinity. There is an element that makes death nothing to be feared. There are gorgeous ideas.

Good gods, this could be viewed as similar to Miss Peregrine books, but EHaD is far superior to the first of those (I've only read the first one). I will be excited to find more by Ms McGuire, and I will be pumped to read the Mira Grant books too.