Läst: Every Heart a Doorway av Seanan McGuire

Every Heart a Doorway av Seanan McGuire är bok ett i en serie kallas Wayward Children. Än så länge finns det tre böcker i serien, men vad jag kan förstå ska det bli minst fem. 

Om serien kan man på författarens hemsida läsa följande:

When is a door not a door? When it is a gateway to grand adventure: when it is the portal that leads you from an ordinary world where you never quite fit in to the place where you have always belonged, where you have always wanted to be. When it is the conduit to everything you need to be happy.
When is a door a lie? When it opens for the second time, and you find yourself right back where you started...only now suddenly, brutally aware of how much you're missing.
There is a school where these wayward children go, when they find themselves back in homes that will never understand them.
Welcome to Eleanor West's.

Och om första boken:

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.
But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.
Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced...they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.
But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of things.
No matter the cost.

Första boken höll vad den lovade och jag sträckläste den.

Första gången jag hörde om den var av en Booktuber (youtube + books) som tårögt berättade om att den var den första bok hen läst där asexualitet var skrivet om som  något "matter of fact" och hur hen fann det fantastiskt att vara representerad i litteratur hen själv tyckte om.

Boken (och förhoppningsvis hela serien) är mörk i sin fantasy - men djupt mänsklig i sin beskrivning av karaktärerna ... men utan att vara förutsägbara.

Favoritcitat:

“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”

“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn't broken.”

“Just because I wouldn’t go back if you paid me, that doesn’t mean I want to forget a second of what happened to me."

Jag gav den en 5:a av 5 möjliga!

Man kan säkert låna den på biblioteken också.