Across the Green Grass Fields

This is definitely one of my favourites in the series.

It does the "subverting fantasy hero clichés" thing in a way that I like, it's an extremely cozy story for many chapters, although quite terrible in others, and the relations between the different species in the hooflands with all that stereotyping are so well written, and all the characters aaah, I love it. Also the whole story smells like sweaty horse.

Wayward Children is an excellent series. McGuire has incredible talent especially how she writes young people. I also liked how the author portrayed intersex, and the difficult conversations. The prose is so good too. No, this isn't my favorite of the series (that's #4) but this is a solid entry and sets up the next part of the series.