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Una Porta per Ogni Cuore by Seanan McGuire

70 reviews

razorfangz's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Transphobia, Blood, Medical content, Body horror, Child abuse, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief and Eating disorder

Minor: Deadnaming

Eye gore

librarymouse's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

4.25

This book has great asexual representation! The mystery is not too hard to solve, but it's explored in a fun and engaging way. I enjoy the different moral alignments of the characters and how they affiliate and differ depending on the worlds that drew them in. Jack is a particular favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Deadnaming

Minor: Animal death

Eating disorder tagged because there is a major focus on the main character's eating habits and her loss of a need to eat in a way that would sustain people due to the changes to her body as imposed by the rules in the Halls of the Dead.

adorablyandie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This is a perfect story. No notes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Transphobia

huntress's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Dysphoria and Acephobia/Arophobia

ellanarose's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

 Beautiful and tragic, brilliant and terrifying. I loved every moment 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Gore, Abandonment, Body horror, Murder, Transphobia, and Violence

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

erebus53's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I read this as  a Book Club recommendation. The start of it felt very promising but about half way through I felt like the pace changed and it became less of an ethereal romp through a boarding school populated by children who have entered magical worlds, and more of a humdrum murder mystery.

I love the representation of diverse sexuality and neurodiversity and Disability rep in Seanan McGuire's books, but the actual plot of this story didn't grab me as much as the setting and characters.

 

It felt a bit like Wednesday Adams visits Willy Wonka, (some fae scary energy there) and then they spend half a book trying to figure out who is offing the Oompaloopas.

Worth a read but I need to learn not to get my hopes up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Transphobia, and Murder

Minor: Animal death

laurenevlyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

5.0

This book is soooooo amazingly unique and imaginative and spectacularly written. If you like fleshed out characters and their interactions with each other (along with a slight murder mystery to keep things interesting), I would 100% recommend Every Heart a Doorway.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Medical content, Death, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lauralintunen's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Deadnaming, Violence, Blood, Murder, Transphobia, Bullying, and Death

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia and Adult/minor relationship

theaceofpages's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

Have you ever wondered what happens when someone returns to the real world in a portal fantasy? What it's like to leave the world of wonder and return to our rather mundane reality? This book looks is set at a school for those who wish to return to the worlds that they have been ripped from and need to try to learn to let go of the lives that they have lost so that they can reintegrate into our world.

I have been aware of and interested in this book for a while (I will admit that the asexual representation is part of it!). I went in mostly blind since I wasn't aware of much (I knew there was an asexual character and there were portals to fantasy worlds). I finally got around to reading it and I accidentally finished it in a day (it is short, yes, but I wasn't expecting to rush through it quite this quickly). I had such a good time reading it. The writing was beautiful and I can definitely imagine the pain of being forced out of a fantasy world (look, I'm still homesick for a place I worked at last year and this wasn't even a completely different realm with magic!) The school seems like it would simultaneously be great (others get it and no one will stop you from going to what you now consider home if you get the chance) and awful (oops, you are stuck in the real world now and need to learn to deal with it). There's a bit of a murder mystery thrown in too and I enjoyed that, although I did guess who the killer was from one of the clues. That didn't take away from my enjoyment though!

I will definitely be continuing with the rest of the series. In fact, I'm already ready to dive into the next book! Unfortunately that will probably have to wait until next year since I have some other books I'd like to get through before the year ends. I'm very excited to get back into it soon and see where the other books go (at this point I have no idea and based off my enjoyment of this book, I think I'll be trying to go into the other books knowing as little as possible as well!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Murder, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Eating disorder, and Transphobia

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Grief