Author: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: Tor Books
Publishing Date: January 8th 2019
Goodreads blurb:
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. 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.
Review:
This is technically the eighth book I've read from Seanan McGuire (four of which are under her pen name, Mira Grant) and honestly, I find it difficult to say which is my favourite series, this or the Newsflesh series. I think it's fascinating as to how Seanan McGuire is able to craft a story, especially in this series, I kept finding myself lost in passages that she was writing, in the way she was able to push language and phrases into something so incredibly beautiful. And I think that I've missed that in her other books in this series (which probably means I'm going to reread them), but I don't know if that's because I related far too much with this character.
Let me explain, Lundy starts off as a girl who knows she's a bit odd, knows that she's never going to have the type of friends that every other kid has, and she's super fine with it. She finds solace in books and enjoys her own company. It isn't until she ends up whisked away to the Goblin Market that she understands why and how much she's different, and how much she potentially fits in somewhere else.
I think this book is super different to other books in this series because it spans a lot longer than the other books, where we'll get the span of a month to a year or so, and this book goes from the age of 6, all the way to almost 18 +
There are still a few setbacks with this series for me, the main being because the book are short, we don't get nearly as much character development than I would like, you have quite a lot about the main character that we focus on, but not all that much with many of the side characters. Lundy's best friend Moon is a great example, while we know quite a bit about her, I felt like she was more of a caricature than a fully fleshed out character.
I will also say, I know that the majority of these books are going to end with the kids going to the school for Wayward Children, it's in the basic idea of the series, but part of me was hoping that this one would be a happy ending, throughout this book I wanted Lundy to get whatever she wanted and to just be content. Genuinely she's probably my favourite character from the series so far.
I definitely recommend reading the series, it's quick, it's fun, it's got unbelievable representation throughout the books, and it's a fun interesting spin on the ideas set down by Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis.
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