Words I Write Crazy: Week 27 Reviews: Across the Green Grass Fields, Where the Drowned Girls Go, In Mercy, Rain, Skeleton Song, Lost in the Moment and Found, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Week 27 Reviews: Across the Green Grass Fields, Where the Drowned Girls Go, In Mercy, Rain, Skeleton Song, Lost in the Moment and Found, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

From Goodreads:
A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series.

"Welcome to the Hooflands. We're happy to have you, even if you being here means something's coming."

Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late.

When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines―a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes.

But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem…

From Goodreads:

Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company.

There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.

It isn't as friendly as Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children.

And it isn't as safe.

When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her Home for Wayward Children, she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn't save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster.

She will soon discover that not all doors are welcoming...

From Goodreads:

Jack Walcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible staircase and found herself in the Moors, a world of drowned gods and repugnant royals.

After abandoning her sister to a vampire lord, and under the tutelage of a mad scientist who can do impossible things with flesh and living lightning, Jack quickly learns that in the Moors, death is merely a suggestion.

From Goodreads:

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions—slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere . . . else. Adventures are always interesting, but they’re not always happy.

From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story of love, of devotion, of bones wrapped in flesh.

From Goodreads:

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found.

Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go.

If you ever lost a sock, you'll find it here.

If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it's probably sitting on a shelf in the back.

And the headphones that you swore that this time you'd keep safe? You guessed it….

Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He's not in the shop, and she'll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she finds that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds.

And stepping through those doors exacts a price.

Lost in the Moment and Found tells us that childhood and innocence, once lost, can never be found.

From Goodreads:

Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning series.

Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.

When her fellow students realize that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, she's forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends, looking for a way back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go to be sure that Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.

Along the way, temptations are dangled, decisions are reinforced, and a departure to a world populated by dinosaurs brings untold dangers and one or two other surprises!

A story that reminds us that finding what you want doesn't always mean finding what you need.

My first review of Across the Green Grass Fields, Where the Drowned Girls Go, In Mercy, Rain, Lost in the Moment and Found, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
My Review:

Author: Seanan McGuire
Series: Wayward Children #6, 7, 7.5, 7.7, 8, 9,
First Read: September 15th, 2020, November 18th, 2021, September 25th, 25th, 2022, August 3rd, 2023

Read: June 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 29th, 2025
Source: NetGalley, Online
Reason Why: Rereading, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2025 Books!
Publisher: Tor.com, Tor Books, Tordotcom
Published: January 12th 2021, January 4th 2022, July 18th 2022, November 2nd 2022, January 10th 2023, January 9th 2024

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