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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

16 reviews

f18's review

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Abandonment, Bullying, Gore, and Transphobia

Minor: Animal death, Sexual content, and Cursing

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Every Heart a Doorway is an interesting novella by Seanan McGuire and I'm glad my friend Bree suggested that I read it. I went into this story without knowing the premise and I think that was a great choice, so I won't say too much about the book. I'll just say that I really appreciated the asexual representation and I liked that this book kept my interest for it's duration, even though it was really short.

Overall I enjoyed this novella, I'm going to give it 4 stars out of 5. 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  - 4/5 Stars

I read this for free on www.hoopladigital.com

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Death, Murder, Bullying, Child abuse, Violence, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

faeriefox's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Cursing and Transphobia

katelynprice's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I loved the mystery, found family, and fantastical elements. Each character was really fun to get to know, and I'm so intrigued by this world. It was a great setup for the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Bullying, and Body horror

Moderate: Murder, Cursing, and Transphobia

Minor: Sexual content

ksmith_23's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Dysphoria, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Torture, Transphobia, and Cursing

parasolcrafter's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

this book was so fast but so slow. so beautifully written but so devoid of substance. so deep but so shallow. so straightforward but so confusing. so unique but so bland. truly...a kind of masterpiece.

literally there are maybe 2 likeable characters (

sumi dies too soon to really be a main character

, nancy doesnt really seem to do much except get dragged around by the plot,

jill is a fucking MURDERER

, and jack is just...so straight cut) and even then cristopher seems like an add-on, if that makes sense? the ending was also so weirdly executed and i just...dont like how the deaths in the book were almost glossed over?? like i didnt feel any real emotion from the characters except eleanor :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Transphobia, Violence, Child death, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Grief, Cursing, Body horror, and Child abuse

Minor: Deadnaming, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, and Vomit

pastelkerstin's review

adventurous dark mysterious

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I feel like this story suffers from its short length, especially once shit gets serious and it seems like everyone is moving on way too fast.

Also, when this came out it was on every ace rep recommendation list. And I get it: The main character is ace and it's mentioned explicitly and this is (was?) a popular book.
But the ace rep in this seems contradictory at times? I don't really know what to make of it. One moment Nancy says it's important to draw a distinction between asexual and aromantic and that she has had boyfriends and has romantic feelings. But then in another scene she says she doesn't want to date anyone. The thing is, it's not like Nancy's experience couldn't be a real person's experience. Attraction is complex and confusing. To me, Nancy seems to be somewhere on the aromantic spectrum, but the narrative doesn't confirm that. It just feels underexplored and odd to me (as an asexual aro-spec person).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Murder, Animal cruelty, Gore, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Deadnaming, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Grief, and Kidnapping

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia

Eye trauma

katherineroseamber's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

Do you sometimes ask yourself if an author is mad? Well, that was the impression that this book left on me. I am honestly very confused and I do not know if it is the good or the bad kind. Maybe it is because I did not really get the moral of the story or I just did not pay enough attention. Either way, if you want to read a book where you end up asking yourself about what you actually read just now, this is the perfect book for you. Enjoy, or do not. 

Regards,
Katherine 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Cursing, Death, Violence, Dysphoria, Grief, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Transphobia

shelleys_shelf's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Bullying and Cursing

bookish_historian's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I loved this book so much, but it also hit a bit too close to home for me when I was a teenager.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Body horror, and Gore

Moderate: Bullying and Cursing

Minor: Transphobia