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Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire

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callidoralblack's review against another edition

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adventurous

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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world_writer's review against another edition

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adventurous reflective 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? No

4.5

I loved seeing the old crew from Eleanor's Home for Wayward Children again and learn more about their worlds (especially Kade's) while they try to help Antsy return to the Shop Where Lost Things Go.

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felyn's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

This was the perfect follow-up to the last book, and I loved that they make up what is more or less Antsy's duology.

Parts of it were bittersweet, but I always love when more things come right in the end than not. It more than made up for the heartbreak of the last book's ending.

Antsy being at the school lands her and our usual pack of students on a quest. (I love that we have a core group of characters.) It leads them through a couple of different lands and we see familiar places and faces, not all of them pleasant, but we leave all of them with, at the very least, hope. And that's important, too.

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adventurous emotional 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

I was so excited to jump back into this series and was glad to read that we were back with Antsy and the rest of the kids in the school. Not only that, but it was quest time again! I enjoyed all of the world jumping (though I did think from the cover that we would be spending more time in the dinosaur realm than we did). I really enjoyed the plot and couldn't put it down. Lots of great quotes in this one!

'Almost always' is a very different thing from 'always'. Lives are lived and lost in 'almost'.

Questions are like coats: you can turn them inside out when you need to hide from the fairies. Nothing sees you when you're cloaked in a question with its seams showing.

Last names could change, and being a part of a family didn't mean people wouldn't hurt you but it was still something wonderful.

We're perfectly normal in the right environment.

People who can't change aren't really perfect.

Just because someone hurt you when you were a child, that doesn't make it right for you to hurt anyone else.

People who've been hurt often think they have some sort of right to go around hurting other people...They think trauma's a toy to keep handing down forever. But the fact that someone hurt you and tied you up in knots doesn't give you the right to do it to anybody else.

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pziibiins's review

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adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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rachelunabridged's review

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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? It's complicated

5.0

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ceruleanseas's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional 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

4.5

Despite the rules against it, Antsy and her friends at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children find themselves on a quest when Antsy opens a door to escape from a bullying classmate. The path home is never straightforward.

As in previous books, McGuire handles her character's trauma with care and thoughfulness. We get a resolution to the stories of several characters and learn more about others. I can't wait to read the next one!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an Advance Reading Copy.

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