“Following the rules didn’t make you a good person, just like breaking them didn’t make you a bad one, but it could make you an invisible person, and invisible people got to do as they liked.” Following the rules made her a teacher’s pet, and it gave her the freedom to find her door in the first place. The Goblin Market Katherine stumbles on is a world made of rules and bargains, and Katherine has been following the rules her whole life. Katherine doesn’t have any friends, as her father is the principal of her school she’s been left out by the other children, but Katherine is determined to be happy and so she is. Like Down Among the Sticks and Bones In An Absent Dream starts with Lundy’s childhood long before she discovers her door when she was Katherine. When we’re introduced to Lundy in Every Heart a Doorway all we learn about her is that she’s an adult stuck in a child’s body, ageing backwards after making a bad deal with goblins, but in this book we get her full story. Sometimes ‘fair’ has to think about what’s best for everyone.”
“Sometimes ‘fair’ is bigger than just you. All the books are amazing in their own way, and besides how can you possibly choose when they all focus on different characters and take us to different worlds? However if I was forced at gunpoint to choose just one favourite, at the moment, it would have to be In An Absent Dream. It’s hard to pick just one favourite when it comes to the Wayward Children series. In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire was published by Tor.com on January 8th 2019.
Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she’s found her paradise. This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her.
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