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A review by prationality2
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire
5.0
In which we learn, in no preferrential order, more about Kade, more about how (and why) Sumi can make sense, a further unraveling of Elly-Eleanor's ability to discern Doors, a rather logical explanation about Doors and what is (and isn't) required from them...
...and a bit about the Moors I should have realized but never did.
Eleanor West doesn't allow quests in her rules, but as our ever growing and changing band of questers finds, even if you aren't looking for adventures, sometimes adventure is necessary to protect those you love.
This series as a whole has always been about finding yourself, finding what it is about your life you are missing or need to make you Sure about your choice. What the series has been hinting at, but didn't make explicit until Antsy's book (book 8: Lost in the Moment and Found), was the TOLL levvied. Not that McGuire hasn't spent every book, both implicitly and explicitly, stating that these Travels the kids go on and the adventures they have, they have a price. In Lundy's book (Book 4: In an Absent Dream), as well as Lundy's explanation in Nancy's book (Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway), we get an idea that a Price is paid by some of the kids according to the Laws of the Door they find themself in.
We know for Christopher, when he goes home to his Skeleton Girl, his price for his Happily Ever After, for him to Belong, is to shed his flesh and blood. For Kade, his price to Belong in Prism was to be someone he never wanted to be. These are more extreme examples, but these are things the kids must be Sure of because this is the Price their Door requires. It was even something Nancy had to grapple with, in her own way, before she could return.
But these are not the only Prices. Antsy learned what the Price that all Doors require, but few ever really have to worry about (something Sumi explains quite well) because they only go through their Door a handful or two times. Barely anything is taken because barely anything happens in 3 days to make note of. And when your Door is asynchonistic to Earth anyhow, would you really notice if you grew three days older?
And now...well. We come to the reckoning as it were. We come to where Antsy explains it all out for everyone to understand and we see the consequences of that knowing. This feels more linear then the others, but that might be a little misleading as the last book was Antsy's and this one also was a bit Antsy's and a bit Cora's and a bit Sumi's.
Though I'm not sure how I feel about Christopher's casual acceptance that if he can't return to Mariposa and his Skeleton Girl he'll have a perfectly splendid career as a serial killer.
...and a bit about the Moors I should have realized but never did.
Eleanor West doesn't allow quests in her rules, but as our ever growing and changing band of questers finds, even if you aren't looking for adventures, sometimes adventure is necessary to protect those you love.
This series as a whole has always been about finding yourself, finding what it is about your life you are missing or need to make you Sure about your choice. What the series has been hinting at, but didn't make explicit until Antsy's book (book 8: Lost in the Moment and Found), was the TOLL levvied. Not that McGuire hasn't spent every book, both implicitly and explicitly, stating that these Travels the kids go on and the adventures they have, they have a price. In Lundy's book (Book 4: In an Absent Dream), as well as Lundy's explanation in Nancy's book (Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway), we get an idea that a Price is paid by some of the kids according to the Laws of the Door they find themself in.
We know for Christopher, when he goes home to his Skeleton Girl, his price for his Happily Ever After, for him to Belong, is to shed his flesh and blood. For Kade, his price to Belong in Prism was to be someone he never wanted to be. These are more extreme examples, but these are things the kids must be Sure of because this is the Price their Door requires. It was even something Nancy had to grapple with, in her own way, before she could return.
But these are not the only Prices. Antsy learned what the Price that all Doors require, but few ever really have to worry about (something Sumi explains quite well) because they only go through their Door a handful or two times. Barely anything is taken because barely anything happens in 3 days to make note of. And when your Door is asynchonistic to Earth anyhow, would you really notice if you grew three days older?
And now...well. We come to the reckoning as it were. We come to where Antsy explains it all out for everyone to understand and we see the consequences of that knowing. This feels more linear then the others, but that might be a little misleading as the last book was Antsy's and this one also was a bit Antsy's and a bit Cora's and a bit Sumi's.