I liked this book! It's a fairly standard "school for children who are weird in ways that their parents don't understand but that's because it's MAGIC" set-up, but the reason the children are weird is because they've gone through doors to other worlds, lived in those worlds, and then came back to reality. Most of them aren't adjusting well! Most of them desperately want to return to their various fairylands! And meanwhile, people are getting murdered.
I enjoyed the set-up and the characters more than the plot of who the killer is, and finding them. Nancy, who is the new girl at the school and whose point of view we follow as we learn alongside her, is really interesting, and her friendship (and perhaps more) with a trans student named Kade is really lovely. The author doesn't make the fairylands the better versions of reality, either - Kade is rejected by the fairyland for being trans, rather than it being the only place he can be himself.
The book is the first in a series, but it's not one that made me immediately need more, in a good way - I thought this novella stood on its own.
Grade: B
I enjoyed the set-up and the characters more than the plot of who the killer is, and finding them. Nancy, who is the new girl at the school and whose point of view we follow as we learn alongside her, is really interesting, and her friendship (and perhaps more) with a trans student named Kade is really lovely. The author doesn't make the fairylands the better versions of reality, either - Kade is rejected by the fairyland for being trans, rather than it being the only place he can be himself.
The book is the first in a series, but it's not one that made me immediately need more, in a good way - I thought this novella stood on its own.
Grade: B
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