Beneath the Sugar Sky(Wayward Children #3)by Seanan McGuirePublished by Toron January 9, 2018Genre: Young Adult, FantasyLength: 176 pages
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Literary Awards:Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fantasy (2018)World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novella (2019)Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novella (2019)
Synopsis:
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. But Rini can't let Reality get in the way of her quest--not when she has an entire world to save!
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. And in a world without magic, she doesn't have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests...
A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.
My Thoughts:
This review may contain spoilers for earlier books in the series.
In the third book in the Wayward Children series, select students go on a quest to help Rini, the daughter of the previously murdered Sumi. Rini is from the world of Confection, where the Queen of Cakes has taken over, and Rini must find out how to save her mother, herself, and her world before it is too late.
I am enjoying this series so much!
I hadn't heard much about it beforehand and only knew of the first book, Every Heart Is A Doorway, at the time so I wasn't sure what to expect. I didn't have high hopes but wanted to give it a try anyway and have fallen in love! Each story is pretty short but full of interesting characters, magic, and doors to magic worlds. The writing is fantastic and I am loving how the author includes so many topics that are usually seen as taboo and definitely need more representation in YA fiction.
I read the first two books in this series right before Halloween and was pleased to find that both have horror elements that were especially fun to read about in Autumn. I put this third book off thinking it would be a lighter installment, and it was, but I couldn't wait long and found that it also had lots of all that lovely, dark, macabre stuff that I like.
I've already borrowed the next book in this series, In An Absent Dream, and can't wait to read it!
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