{"id":2285,"date":"2016-11-18T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2020-03-04T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:22:53","slug":"every-heart-doorway-seanan-mcguire-reverse-portal-fantasy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/every-heart-doorway-seanan-mcguire-reverse-portal-fantasy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire – a reverse portal-fantasy tale"},"content":{"rendered":"
What happens to children who tumble back into the real world from fairylands and wonder lands? Every Heart a Doorway<\/em> is your regular portal-fantasy in reverse. Do these children want to go back? Where do they have a sense of belonging?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are portals lurking everywhere \u2013 a door, a cupboard, a well or maybe clothes. When Nancy visits the world of dead she feels completely safe. But when she comes back to the real world (her parents believe she was kidnapped), she feels she no longer fits in this world. In a desperate attempt to revive their child, her parents enrol her in Eleanor West\u2019s Home for Wayward Children that specializes in such cases. Little do they know that they will not get her back \u2013 the school teaches such kids how to cope with their tragedy and live, not about forgetting their story that no one else in the real world believes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The atmosphere of the school is a relief to Nancy and she grows friendly with all the other children. Until gruesome murders start happening in the otherwise peaceful school with Nancy\u2019s roommate being the first victim. Nancy gets suspicious looks everywhere because the murders start after she is enrolled in the school and also because of the dreary nature of the world she visited, very different from the colourful fantastical worlds that a majority of the children were part of. Nancy along with a group of friends, tries find out the truth in order to prove her innocence.<\/p>\nIn Brief<\/h3>\n