In an Absent Dream - Seanan McGuire

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Title: In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4)
Author: Seanan McGuire
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 187
Date read: January, 2019

This is the story of 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. As well she should.

When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. 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.

For anyone...


I had a hard time deciding how to rate this, because it broke my heart a little. Most of it was definitely a 5-star read, but the heartbreak pulled it down a bit. For once I was grateful for the foreshadowing, as it meant I was prepared. Also, foreshadowing bothers me less when the narration style is "seen in hindsight".

I loved the Goblin Market and the idea of "fair trade", I loved the Archivist and Moon. It bothered me slightly that Lundy experienced so much in the Goblin Market which was only told off-page, but at the end of the day, I can see how it isn't actually relevant to the story itself... no matter how interesting I might think it would be to read ;)