Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

Hardcover, 160 pages

Published Jan. 7, 2024 by Tordotcom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-84850-5

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Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.

When her fellow students realize that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, she's forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends, looking for a way back to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go to be sure that Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.

Along the way, temptations are dangled, decisions are reinforced, and a departure to a world populated by dinosaurs brings untold dangers and one or two other surprises!

A story that reminds us that finding what you want doesn't always mean finding what you need.

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Catship reviewed Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #9)

Oh shit 💖

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I like this one a lot. It's very trauma-heavy, building on Antsy's story and on those of the Whitethorn escapees. But it goes the way I'd expect a Wayward Children story to go – not the way Lost in the Moment and Found went. (I also like Lost in the Moment and Found, but, it's on a totally different level of everything is bad and sad.) I have warm fuzzy feelings. This is about.... not passing on trauma. It's sad, and scary, and one person's happy end can be difficult for someone else... but mostly, everything just goes really well and some things are much less terrible than before. Soothing, but in a pleasantly complex way.