A review by regaliaofchaos
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Truly beautiful, the way the story is written but also the story itself. 

I was drawn to this book for its LGBTQIA+ characters initially and then read the full blurb on the inside flap and decided I needed to read it immediately. Nancy is truly a marvel of a character, in just 160-ish pages you as a reader get to see a full scope of her personality and part of that has to do with the nature of the world she visited. It was small things like this that had made all of the characters have a depth you wouldn't expect from such a short novel. My personal favorite is Kade because he knows he's not wanted in the world he came from even though he longs to go back, I also appreciated that him being transgender wasn't his entire personality or the only reason why he was involved in the story itself.

The plot itself isn't overly complicated, you can somewhat tell where it's going about 3/4th's of the way through but I really loved how it was handled.
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