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Mislaid in Parts Half-Known
- Wayward Children, Book 9
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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"Jesse Vilinsky brings expert narration to another installment of the Wayward Children series...Vilinsky creates fun, expressive banter between Antsy and the group as they journey back home, finding new goals along the way. Some characters are depicted with quirky personalities, but the narration is strongest in the colorful way Vilinsky describes the fantastical setting." —AudioFile
Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.
Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.
When the school’s (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, Antsy is 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, they will travel from a world which hides painful memories that cut as sharply as its beauty, to a land that time wasn’t yet old enough to forget—and more than one student's life will change forever.
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known is a story that reminds us that getting what you want doesn't always mean finding what you need.
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- Emily
- 11-01-24
Very Good
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I honestly can't describe how much I love this series. It's just so well written, and complex, and heart breaking and amazing all in one and I look forward to reading the yearly audio release every January (and physical release in October).
This book carried on Antsy's story from the previous book, and I love this character. She rivals Nancy for my favourite character in the series. I'm so happy for Antsy in this book as she starts to discover herself and what she wants and how she wants things, and she's just so fantastically written. I love her knowledge of the doors and I wish that there was a side along novella that was just her and Kade discussing the doors for his world mapping compass project.
Kade is explored more in this book, and we even see parts of his world. I've been so desperate for more Kade in these novels because he's just such an interesting character and so different from everybody else because he doesn't want to go back to his world. I found the short trip to Prism, while it was very, very short, it did provide a lot of characterisation for Kade, which hadn't necessarily been missing in previous novels, but really expanded his character.
I think, for the first time, Cora didn't annoy me in this novel. I have strongly disliked Cora in all of the previous novels that she's been in, and when I found out that this book would also have her in, I rolled my eyes. However, possibly because of the high amount of characters that were being followed in this book, she wasn't really in it as much as normal, and she was much less annoying. Also, to be fair to her character, she did experience character growth and she was becoming more confident in and of herself.
I had to mention that there was a character who shares my name. Emily is one of the characters that was previously at the sister school of Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children and she bears the mental scars of the treatments the school put her through, which in this book is a recurring theme. This book did focus quite heavily on the characters trying to overcome the lies and mental/physical/emotional scars inflicted on them by adults, and the main characters coming to the realisation of what taking the doors to these other worlds means for their own personal lives. It was such a beautifully written final 15% that I had to listen to it twice.
The last few books set at the school have been alluding to the growing senility of Eleanor West, but that is brought more into the foreground in this novel with the characters all mentioning that she has been misplacing students on the compass, looking more towards nonsense and trying to find it within the students worlds, and passing more responsibilities onto Kade. I don't know how to feel about this, because on one hand, I don't really have any feelings towards her as a character. I don't dislike her, but I don't like her either. She's just kind of... there. On the other hand, I don't know how the school would be, once she takes the final trip back to her world. It will be interesting to see how that plays out in future novels.
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- Lizzie
- 28-01-24
Full of important life lessons
This book was another phenomenal read, I don’t understand how Seanan packs so much into these books; so many lessons to learn from and grow with.
The big take from this book is that trauma can not only be generational but also be made to affect anyone who comes into our lives; it’s our own responsibility to notice when our own trauma starts to affect other people’s lives, and learn to heal from it
"People who've been hurt often think they have some sort of right to go around hurting other people. They think trauma is a toy to keep handing down forever. But the fact that someone hurt you and tied you up in knots, doesn't give you the right to do it to anybody else." - Sumi
I loved seeing more of the story and more of some of the characters. I cannot wait to have Kade’s story, I know that Seanan will make his story so important and needed
Favourite quote: “I’m ridiculous, not indecisive” - Sumi
That is the perfect way to describe Sumi 😂
Looking forward to the next book
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