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Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire

10 reviews

yvo_about_books's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Transphobia, Bullying, Abandonment, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Death, and Homophobia

ritabriar's review

adventurous 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book continues the delightful pattern of the series of showing us how these characters interact, where their biases and abilities and losses conflict and complement. Each character has their own shifting motivations, always similar enough to keep them moving forward together on their quest... until one or more does not go forward anymore. Since the doors themselves respond to the children's certainty, the plot is driven by an intersection of the characters and the universe. 

Let's talk about the dinosaurs. Delightful, no notes. Feathered, brightly-colored, and fluffy, plus viciously terrifying. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Transphobia, and Slavery

Minor: Violence, War, Animal death, Dementia, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Chronic illness

bookboxbabe's review

adventurous hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

sumi is the most annoying character and every time she leaves i hope she’ll stay gone

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Forced institutionalization and Gaslighting

libraryghost's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Bullying, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

Minor: Dementia

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Child abuse

imstephtacular's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

I will read this series forever. Every entry continues to be wild and unique and riveting and I am glad this particular installment was a return to a group of already lover characters 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Gaslighting, Death, and Violence

Minor: Racism, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Child death, Abandonment, Transphobia, Body horror, Bullying, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sarahweyand's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.25

 Side note but this is the same audiobook narrator that did the last book and her voice is just great, would absolutely love to listen to more by her. 

Another solid installment in the Wayward Children series! Probably one of my most favorite ones so far. I really enjoyed Antsy's door and her story in Lost in the Moment and Found, but I also enjoy the found family aspect of the rest of the group, so this was a lovely meeting of the two. The inciting incident here was a little silly and I felt it wasn't totally resolved at the conclusion of the story, but that didn't bother me too too much. As usual, some of the dialogue was a little clunky and trying too hard to be quirky, but that doesn't bother me as much anymore.

I enjoyed the fact that we went through some new doors this book! I wish we had spent more time in them but I understand the constraints of the novella format. Hopefully we'll be able to get to Kade's world soon and that he gets a story all his own - or Eleanor herself! Who knows. These stories are cozy to me and I could keep listening for as long as Seanan keeps putting them out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Child abuse, and Death of parent

bear_ridge_tarot's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.0

 

The story is about Antsy, the new kid at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children, and how she realizes that her gift of finding lost things might extend to the doors that open into other worlds. As part of an odd group of students (whom we've met in previous books), they set out on an unauthorized quest that leads them through other worlds on their way to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go.

Finding that sense of home is such an integral part of each story in the Wayward series, but none so much as this one. While all the books in the series explore what it really means to be human, and how adults see children, this one touches on a person's pure, honest desire to belong. Antsy can only return to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go if she is sure. Sumi knows she will go back to her lost world because she is and has always been sure. Kade is sure he will never go back to Prism. 

As an installment of the Wayward Child series by Seanan McGuire, this book satisfies the curiosity in me to tie up all the loose ends of characters who already starred in their own books. While not every character gets a satisfying story conclusion in this book (leaving room for more to come!), the utterly fascinating storytelling kept me engaged with the narrator. Not my favorite in the series (I still love Jack and Jill so much!) but definitely one of the best. 

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Death and Child abuse

leslie_overbookedsocialworker's review

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Bullying

twoweeeeks's review

adventurous reflective 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting and Bullying

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, and Toxic friendship