A review by stephsbookreviews
Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire

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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