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In an Absent Dream Wayward Children Book 4 eBook Seanan McGuire

I’m convinced the ‘Wayward Children’ series are fairy tales for adults whose door never opened for them as children, who are holding out hope against hope that some day their door will finally appear.

‘Alas, that this is not a fairy tale.’

Okay, Seanan, I hear you. So it’s not a fairy tale, but it’s a cautionary tale, right?

‘this is Lundy’s story, Lundy’s cautionary tale’

This cautionary tale’s doorway leads to the Goblin Market which, despite the fact that I would never make it a day there, still made me yearn for my own doorway to appear. It also made me want to reread ‘Every Heart a Doorway’ to revisit Lundy’s journey after the conclusion of this book.

Lundy is this tale’s Wayward and she’s a reader!

‘Everything was a story, if studied in the right fashion.’

She won my heart before I knew anything else about this precious soul. Lundy is also a strict keeper of rules, which is exactly why her doorway would never even consider me a possibility.

‘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.’

This is a book of friendship and loyalty, of being torn between what you want and what you need, and of pies. Oh, the pies! I need to eat all of the pies.

I adored the Archivist, had a soft spot for Moon and wish I had gotten to know Mockery. I loved learning about how the Goblin Market’s rules work and especially loved the idea, foreign in our own, that unfair things always come with consequences.

I’m also entirely in love with that cover artwork and the gorgeous illustrations. I need a print of that doorway in the tree that’s large enough to span an entire wall so I can gaze at it all day, waiting for it to magically transform into the doorway to my world.

I was disappointed that some of the most exciting scenes happened off the page. I wanted to witness firsthand the battles that had been fought and won by characters when I wasn’t looking, and to be told of their conclusion rather than being shown them was frustrating for me.

Maybe it’s wishful thinking but I keep hoping there will be a ‘Wayward Children’ book that explores the world I should be living in and that the simple act of opening the pages will open its doorway for me.

“It is a place where dreamers go when they don’t fit in with the dreams their homes think worth dreaming. Doors lead here. Perhaps you found one.”

How am I supposed to wait an entire year for ‘Come Tumbling Down’?!


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In an Absent Dream Wayward Children Book 4 eBook Seanan McGuire Reviews

4.5

In An Absent Dream is the story about Lundy, a serious girl who likes the structures of rules, likes books, reading, and studying. She doesn’t want to fit into the predisposed position a girl in the 1960s is supposed to, that of becoming a wife and mother and running a household, what is considered “respectable.”

As is wont to happen, a doorway appears, and Lundy finds herself in the Goblin Market where one must follow the rules and always provide “fair value” if one is to, shall we say, remain grounded. As Lundy reaches maturity, her decision to stay in the Market or have the doorway closed to her forever looms ever near, and Lundy will find out exactly what is given away in the name of fair value.

Absent Dream is yet another prequel story in this series, it works well as a standalone—as do all the books in the Wayward Children series—but long-time readers of this series will recognize Lundy, whom we’ve previously met in Every Heart a Doorway. In that book, we are introduced to a younger (older) Lundy who acts as a therapist for all those who make their way to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. In this regard we are already fully aware of what becomes of Lundy by the end of Absent Dream, which makes this a rather bittersweet reading, but that seems to be par for the course in this series, where a fairy-tale is more Grimm’s than Disney.

But I felt like Absent Dream was more so than the others. It’s the first time we see the child actively going back and forth over the years between their doorway and the real world. The first time we see the effect that a child leaving has on the family who—by all accounts—loves and cares for her even if they don’t completely understand her.

The Goblin Market is an interesting juxtaposition with the real world. It’s a place of wonders that Lundy is drawn into where she feels like she truly belongs. Yet it’s also a place that puts an inordinately amount of emphasis on making sure things are fair, to the point where the apparent sentient Goblin Market itself will step in to make sure all debts are paid otherwise proof of your debt will manifest itself upon your person. In a predominately unfair world, how do you find balance when what is valuable to one person means nothing to someone else? How do you keep from losing part of yourself in the exchange? It’s something Lundy struggles to understand throughout and only knows the true consequences once it’s too late. Seanan McGuire wrote a very layered and involved book in such a short amount of space, but everything between the covers is written with a very precise purpose. It’s beautiful in its grimness.

I’ve really enjoyed how much this series hinges on and pivots around that first book in the series. How that first book has started out as the doorway of sorts, leading readers in all different directions. You just never know where Seanan McGuire will end up taking you next.
Looking for fair value in an unfair world can lead even the most sensible child to look elsewhere for a place to call Home. What would you do or give up to be seen, truly seen, understood and surrounded by those who see things as you do?

This series just keeps getting better and better! I really thought I couldn't be any more impressed. That was until I devoured my preordered copy, the very day it was released, and suddenly I am blown away... again! How can a simple concept such as children who don't easily fit in finding a way to escape their mundane/ill fitting reality only to encounter and enter a fairytale like, alternate, more accepting world give us such a gamut of supremely worthy material? The world building and prose are vivid while the characters are diverse. Ultimately Mrs. McGuire has graciously thought into being new and fantastical worlds that surpass the proceeding ones with imagination too beautiful for words.

This one is centered around Katherine Lundy who prefers to be called by her last name only (it's a Goblin Market thing, you'll see). Lundy finds the world she was born to to be unjust, especially with how it treats its children. When she finds her way to the door in the tree that is boldly displaying the words "BE SURE", Lundy has never been so sure of anything in her whole life. This book, based on Rosetti's poem The Goblin Market, has an ethereal and melodic cadence. The writing is simply gorgeous without being too flowery or verbose. The characters are rich, multidimensional and at once relateable. I won't go into anymore detail than that because I went into this one blind, enjoyed every single second of it and believe wholeheartedly that you will too.

~Enjoy
I’m convinced the ‘Wayward Children’ series are fairy tales for adults whose door never opened for them as children, who are holding out hope against hope that some day their door will finally appear.

‘Alas, that this is not a fairy tale.’

Okay, Seanan, I hear you. So it’s not a fairy tale, but it’s a cautionary tale, right?

‘this is Lundy’s story, Lundy’s cautionary tale’

This cautionary tale’s doorway leads to the Goblin Market which, despite the fact that I would never make it a day there, still made me yearn for my own doorway to appear. It also made me want to reread ‘Every Heart a Doorway’ to revisit Lundy’s journey after the conclusion of this book.

Lundy is this tale’s Wayward and she’s a reader!

‘Everything was a story, if studied in the right fashion.’

She won my heart before I knew anything else about this precious soul. Lundy is also a strict keeper of rules, which is exactly why her doorway would never even consider me a possibility.

‘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.’

This is a book of friendship and loyalty, of being torn between what you want and what you need, and of pies. Oh, the pies! I need to eat all of the pies.

I adored the Archivist, had a soft spot for Moon and wish I had gotten to know Mockery. I loved learning about how the Goblin Market’s rules work and especially loved the idea, foreign in our own, that unfair things always come with consequences.

I’m also entirely in love with that cover artwork and the gorgeous illustrations. I need a print of that doorway in the tree that’s large enough to span an entire wall so I can gaze at it all day, waiting for it to magically transform into the doorway to my world.

I was disappointed that some of the most exciting scenes happened off the page. I wanted to witness firsthand the battles that had been fought and won by characters when I wasn’t looking, and to be told of their conclusion rather than being shown them was frustrating for me.

Maybe it’s wishful thinking but I keep hoping there will be a ‘Wayward Children’ book that explores the world I should be living in and that the simple act of opening the pages will open its doorway for me.

“It is a place where dreamers go when they don’t fit in with the dreams their homes think worth dreaming. Doors lead here. Perhaps you found one.”

How am I supposed to wait an entire year for ‘Come Tumbling Down’?!