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I am finally starting to catch up on the Wayward Children series. This was a solid entry; not incredible but I definitely enjoyed it.

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Bk4 of #20in4 #readathon & Bk9 of May is done! It‘s after 4am here but the next bk is calling me. This is the 6th Wayward Children book in the series. It‘s Regan‘s story, a girl whose soul belongs to anything with hooves. So of course her door leads to the Hooflands, where she‘s taken in by a family of unicorn herding Centaurs, where she lives blissfully until it all goes wrong. Of course. #BookspinBingo #SeriesLove2023 #Pantone2023

4✨. 🎧

As always McGuire takes us through a door to the most magical place you can dream up. I mean who doesn't want unicorns as cattle?

I'm waiting for all theses lost girls to get to Eleanor's Home for Wayward Children, to see how many of them will make it back to their magical worlds.

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Added a few more pages and 2 Audiobook hours to my #AwesomeApril #ReadAThon
I'm hoping I'll get more reading done tomorrow.

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Oh no! What happens next? I hope Regan makes another appearance in the series.

I thought that Regan‘s story was a great read.

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4/5

🌲🌳🤫

Finally got to finish this amazing series. Loved them all

I had never heard of a kelpie before reading this book. Interesting creature #ilovehorsesday #julyjam @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

(2021) Sixth in McGuire's series of novellas about refugees from portal fantasy worlds. This one introduces a new character, Regan, an intersex teen who goes to a world of unicorns and centaurs where she is supposed to perform some world-saving destiny, and she'd just prefer not. It's fine, though it felt a bit didactic in parts. Also, I listened to this on audiobook, and disliked the narrator, so that probably didn't help.

An entertaining story about a child who passes through a portal into a world containing centaurs, unicorns and other magical creatures. Not as good as some other stories in the Wayward Children series, though.

This book is nominated for a 2022 Hugo Best Novella award and the series as a whole is nominated for a Best Series award. #hugo2022 #hugoawards

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I am in love with the atmosphere & the number of magical lands Seanan McGuire constructs. The stories are always magical/fantastical, but with an underlying more serious message about inclusion & I LOVE that. This volume focuses on an intersex character & I think it was handled extremely well. The political metaphor was well executed. The ending was a bit rushed & didn't feel as smooth as the rest of the book, but I still really enjoyed my read.

This is one of my favorites of the Wayward Children series! I loved everything about it. Completely standalone (for now), it follows an intersex girl who, after a tough couple years in school, finds a door to a world populated by equines (think centaurs and minotaurs), where a human is heralded as savior but also as bad omen as something is coming that they are going to need saved from. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'll start out by saying I love every book in this series, they are so well written! I don't know how McGuire builds such realistic worlds while keeping these books small novellas. Regan goes to the Hooflands, I mean she is a horse girl, what better world to go to for a horse girl than one where everyone is some type of horse? I loved the characters and Regans journey on discovering herself and what she wants in life. The book was fun!

I enjoyed this bittersweet story about a girl who discovers a world of mythical equines—centaurs, unicorns, kelpies, etc.—and feels for the first time that she‘s truly home.🔸#septemberreads2021

Excited to re-start this again 😁 I kept putting it off because of the bullying at the beginning, but I powered through and am loving it so far. Like with Down Among the Sticks and Bones, McGuire is showing the different ways to be a girl, and this time we get some intersex rep!

TW/CW for childhood bullying, intersex phobia (I'll update if there's more)

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Had my first trip to the library in at least a year and a half the other day. I might have been a little overzealous. I only went for the top two books, but ended up with all of these and read another while I was there. 😆

Such a wonderful series. Fantastic imagination with some lovely messages in each book.

Love this series.

We‘ve finally finished the move and all that is left is putting the new house into a configuration that we like. My first priority was getting our lovely side porch put together for reading during summer storms and I‘m getting to enjoy that at this very moment. 🥰

Each story in the Wayward Children is as heartbreaking as it is captivating. The depth of imagination that goes into each new world is surprisingly detailed given the length of each book. This one is set as a standalone novel, so none of the characters readers have come to know throughout the series will be present. But it's just as good.
Full review https://www.behindthepages.org/post/across-the-green-grass-fields-by-seanan-mcgu...

4/5 for this one! I enjoyed this one. It wasn‘t my favorite though. I did enjoy Regan, Pansy, and Chicory! I felt the end was really quick. I still loved the story with all the centaurs and the twist at the end. I will be continuing these.

Bk11 of April & Bk1 of #Deweys24hr #readathon is done! The latest in the Wayward Children series, this brings in new characters, Regan, & a new world, The Hooflands filled with kelpies, centaurs & other magical horses. #SeriesRead2021 #StackingTheSeries #PickYourPoison #FinishingTheSeries2021 #Pageathon #PennyPerPage #BookspinBingo

Finally posting my #Deweys24hr #readathon TBR a few hrs before it starts! I‘m definitely hoping to finish Lawyer X(my #doublespin book of April), then the tagged book but after that it‘s up for grabs. I‘m already a few chapters into Crooked Kingdom but London,Burning sounds amazing. Then again, UndermajorDomo Minor has been on my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom for a few years(I got it in a book swap!) We shall see. Who else is readathonning with me?

Y‘all I sat down and read this one in one sitting. I love every book Seanan writes in the wayward children series and this one is no different. I loved it so so much and the ending nearly made me cry. If you like stories about children and the doors they travel through it‘s for you (I also recommend liking horses, centaurs, and the like)

I love this series. I want kids just so I can read these book to them.

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I really enjoy each addition to this series. Of course I have my favorites, and some characters I like more than others, but overall I'm never disappointed.

This book features a young girl who doesn't quite fit in, who loves horses, and just wants to belong. The creatures and imagery in this book were very well done.

I'm excited to see where McGuire will take the next book. 💚

⭐⭐⭐⭐+
"She knew better now. The world was bigger now. She was bigger now, and that made all the difference."

I loved it!!! This series is getting better and better!
Regan is such a beautiful character and her story was so well written.. and I loved Hooflands! ??

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Finished this one in three sittings today.

Also read in two other titles: Indelicacy by Amina Cain & Fistful of shells by Toby Green.

174 + 11+ 12 = 197 pages
And oh, how different those pages were!

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Another melancholy little novella in the Wayward Children series. In this series, I usually like the portal stories more than the quest stories. That‘s still true, but this was a weaker portal story. The setup—the circumstances leading up to Regan discovering her door into the Hooflands—was really well done. But the ending left me wanting more once Regan returned home. Hoping McGuire continues with more of Regan‘s story later in the series.⤵️

This series seriously tugs on my heart strings. I loved Regan‘s story so much and I‘m hopeful we get to see her again in the future.

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An addition to the series that feels especially apt right now.

Seanan McGuire writes about “worlds that need saving...by someone who loves them.” Remind you of any world you know?

The overarching message of this volume, set in the Hooflands - a place of centaurs, fauns, kelpies, & kirin -, is a plea to stay a little wild because “civilized people don‘t know how to listen. All their magic goes into the places *they believe* it belongs.” 👇🏻

Late-afternoon light, falling prettily across the pages of an unknown world (namely, Hooflands 🦄).

I really like the Wayward Children series. This was no exception.

Eh, this standalone entry in the series was just okay at best. I may or may not come back to the series as she adds to it, I loved the first few but the last couple have felt like a step down to me. At least it was a quick read!

I felt terrible all day yesterday and got to feeling sad once the night rolled around, so instead of sleeping I administered this novella directly to my brain. It was a real balm, a type of fantasy tale I love when I come across them - just living in a magical world. There's a quest, but it's not the important thing. Living is what's important.

10 year old Regan learns something unexpected about herself and entrusts her secret to to the wrong person. In the aftermath she finds a doorway to the Hooflands, a place populated by mythical creatures where humans always save the world. Although I prefer the stories about the pupils of the Home for Wayward Children, this standalone tale is a great addition to the series, full of McGuire's typical wisdom, imagination and fantastic LGBTQIA heroes

A new Wayward Children book is just what I need right now!

"...but the world has never traded in easy when it didn't have to."

The 6th book in the Wayward Children series follows a new character, Reagan, who enters a doorway that takes her to the Hooflands. Full of centaurs, unicorns, & other mystical creatures with cloven hooves, the Hooflands seems to be a magical place. Raegan soon finds that she is expected to save the world, but she's not sure she's ready to live up to her destiny.

I love this series SO MUCH, so I was really excited when my hold for this one finally came in! The boys are enjoying it with me! #catsoflitsy #littenkitten #roxas #chaplin

A departure from the previous books in the series, but no less enjoyable.

I started ACROSS THE GREEN GRASS FIELDS last night while I ate a not-so-good mug cake. I had this vision of myself reading the whole thing before bed, but I crashed about 60% in (perhaps because of the claggy little cake). It‘s really good so far, though, and I‘ll finish it today. Maybe even this morning, depending on what else demands my attention.

After a friend betrays her at school, Regan runs to the woods and finds a door leading to the Hooflands. For every girl who was ever into horses....(you don't have to have read the previous Wayward Children books first.)

Another great installment to the Wayward Children Series. I'd say this is my third favorite of the worlds, behind the Moors and Confection. I do like the logical worlds better.

Hooray for another Wayward Children book! This one is a stand alone about Regan, a horse loving girl who finds herself in a world full of centaurs, fauns, Minotaurs, and lots of other creatures after stepping through a doorway made of two entwined trees.

I could live in this universe, but my favorite is still Lundy and the Goblin Market.

Supervised as always by my Sietje.

After disastrously sharing a secret, Reagan runs away and finds a door. A door to the Hooflands, a place of centaurs, unicorns, and kelpies, where humans are destined to save the world.

McGuire‘s works continue to be a gut punch. I had to take a break, because the memories of being a young girl who trusted the wrong person were too visceral.

The world building is phenomenal as always, and Reagan was a great addition to the series. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗

I may have a new favorite in this series! 🤔🤓

*pterodactyl screeching*