Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children #3)
Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire Another beautiful novel from Seanan McGuire. The openings of the Wayward Children books are some of my favorite pages to read. I look forward to them with relish. Seanan writes for those of us who as children who looked for Narnia in our closets, or down rabbit holes for adventure, or created imaginary worlds of our own to just belong in. For the dreamers & the lost ones. . . Beneath the Sugar Sky introduces us to Rini, who falls from the sky into the Turtle Pond at Eleanor West's home for Wayward Children. She is in search of her mother, Sumi, who was killed several years before being able to conceive Rini (time is wonderfully weird in Nonsense worlds). Time is running out because, since she's technically never been born, Rini is slowly disappearing. So Kade, Christopher, Nadya & a new character, a mermaid named Cora, join her in a quest that takes them to new worlds, to face old villains, make new friends, meet a baker and co