Reviews and Comments

Great opening and interesting idea. I'll read this series someday.

Such a creepy story and so unsettling, but this is why I read horror, to know the darkest part of the mind, to map my own interior. Jones writes with purpose and audacity and the images beckon to be explored. Just be careful where you go I suppose: You might get bitten or find some dark water.

Absolutely blown away by this beautiful story about broken angels and motherhood set against a multiverse that feels familiar and coherent yet transcends the trammels of humanity like a Greek myth. I especially loved the clever critique of capitalism! LOL.

I waited to have time to appreciate this one after starting it once before. I am so impressed with Lynch's craft. This book is fun, but it's also artistic, filled with brilliant witty dialogue and descriptions that are storytelling themselves, like how goats are gentled, which turns out to be REALLY important. Simply put, I loved it.

Oh, I loved this one. The atmosphere created by the author is perfect. I love the characters, the Djinn, the world building, and the just under the surface sexual tension. Great story!

Quite a good novel. I like the twisty meal at the end.

Arguably nothing happens in this story and maybe that is part of its magic. It's time well spent with a group of people who become friends, some familiar, some not. It largely doesn't matter to the people stuck on Gora that more consequential events are happening in the background. They each have personal issues vital to them, if for no one else. How they overcome these challenges reveals so much about how these people interact with each other, how they celebrate their common being and their wild differences. It's just incredible. Absolutely enthralling.

I saw a theme in Weir's books about the heroic nature of his MCs, how they are always right and worthy, and I like how the author has disabused me of my presumptioon. A strong novel where the science is fundamental to the story. We can only hope that when it's time to understand the nature of alien life we have enlightened people like this in charge, even with their lovable shortcomings.

Great voices giving original takes on all things nerdy. I'm a nerd too and felt so home.

I enjoyed the story and world building. The characters are from the other stories, which I liked, but this felt a bit rambling. At the same time, some of this might be on me, since I'm mainlining these short books and there is some blurring.

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.

The other reviewers are correct that the author doesn't seem to have much patience for Aquinas or Augustine. His point was that Aquinas's generally orthodox work essentially postponed the Renaissance. Why should that be respected?