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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
4.0
I start this review a little sad. This is the last Wayward Children book currently published and I'm gonna miss these stories so much! The imagination, the characters and the lovely writing style are everything and I want and need more NOW! However, I didn't want to put off reading this current last installment. I might have put in a request on Netgalley to get an arc for the next one and now I have all toes and fingers crossed!
In this book McGuire takes us once again to an unknown world, a world we get to explore alongside our heroine. What I loved is that McGuire took the time to introduce our heroine to us, in our own world. We get to see her parents, we meet her friends and we get an idea of her daily life and personality. That way we could see clearly why the door opening to her lead her to a world made for her. Or, the world she was made for.
And once we enter that world McGuire once more takes her time to show us the wonders of the world, the way our heroine fits in. But, she also shows us the dangers and the struggles of this world and the big threat hanging over our heroine's head. I think it's quite impossible not to fall in love with this world at least a little and therefore everything happening at the end is even more heartbreaking and painful. And all because McGuire built up her story perfectly.
And also because she managed to make the centaurs such layered and interesting characters. I guess it's simply because she wrote them as humans, with a love life, with rules and habits, with lives and jobs and structures, with hobbies and warmth in their hearts. I don't want to imagine what would have happened if our heroine wouldn't have been such a horse-girl and I hope that one day McGuire will return to this world to show us what has eventually become of it.
In this book McGuire takes us once again to an unknown world, a world we get to explore alongside our heroine. What I loved is that McGuire took the time to introduce our heroine to us, in our own world. We get to see her parents, we meet her friends and we get an idea of her daily life and personality. That way we could see clearly why the door opening to her lead her to a world made for her. Or, the world she was made for.
And once we enter that world McGuire once more takes her time to show us the wonders of the world, the way our heroine fits in. But, she also shows us the dangers and the struggles of this world and the big threat hanging over our heroine's head. I think it's quite impossible not to fall in love with this world at least a little and therefore everything happening at the end is even more heartbreaking and painful. And all because McGuire built up her story perfectly.
And also because she managed to make the centaurs such layered and interesting characters. I guess it's simply because she wrote them as humans, with a love life, with rules and habits, with lives and jobs and structures, with hobbies and warmth in their hearts. I don't want to imagine what would have happened if our heroine wouldn't have been such a horse-girl and I hope that one day McGuire will return to this world to show us what has eventually become of it.