And In An Absent Dream is about how we live in a world that has completely lost the meaning of what is fair and what is just and what is right. Beneath the Sugar Sky is about loving yourself and no matter what your body looks like, that it’s perfect fat, skinny, with scars, with hair, with modifications so that you can be the person that you want to be.

Down Among the Sticks and Bones is about gender norms and stereotypes that the world horribly puts onto us, and how it’s a horrible cycle that never stops. Every Heart a Doorway is about asexuality and realizing how important it is to surround yourself with people who unconditionally love and accept you, all of you, because you’re worthy of it. Trust me.Įach and every book in this series is not only expertly crafted, but also the theme will be hard hitting and impactful.

I know the release date isn’t until January 8th, 2019, but preorder this now. It’s a magical masterpiece and a perfect addition to this series that Seanan has given book lovers everywhere. Lundy, Moon, and Diana each have a piece of my heart that I won’t ever get back, and I’m a better person because of it. There is a such a beautiful theme of the power of love between siblings, both found and blood, and that thread is carried through for each visit. And Lundy is also able to travel back and forth between the market and home throughout this glimpse into her life. And one day, Lundy finds a door, her door, and it completely changes her life.Īnd in the goblin market Lundy learns so very much about herself and who she truly wants to become. But even at six, Lundy knows this isn’t the life she wants, even if it is the life that is expected of her. I mean, this is the dream, right? It’s for sure her parent’s dream for her. She is going to be quiet, and studious, and keep to herself, and maybe one day she will be a librarian (because she loves books), and then become a wife and a mother. Lundy is only six years old when she realizes that her entire life is going to be planned for her. “She had been able to find a doorway and disappear into an adventure, instead of living in a world that told her, day after day after grinding, demoralizing day, that adventures were only for boys that girls had better things to worry about, like making sure those same boys had a safe harbor to come home to.” And, friends, this might be my favorite book in the entire series so far.

And this is her story, about her time in her world, the goblin market. She is Eleanor’s second in command, and claims to be eighty-years-old, despite only looking around eight. In An Absent Dream stars Katherine Lundy, the therapist who leads the group sessions in Every Heart a Doorway. ARC provided by Tor in exchange for an honest review.Ģ.) Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★★★

In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire