Across the Green Grass Fields - bookrastinating.com

208 pages

English language

Published Feb. 20, 2021 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-21360-0

A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields , a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series.

“Welcome to the Hooflands. We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.”

Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late.

When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines—a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes.

But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem…

A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields , a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series.

“Welcome to the Hooflands. We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.”

Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late.

When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines—a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes.

But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem…

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Taylor Drew reviewed Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #6)

A lot of horse girls

5 stars

I was a bit worried to be interested to a completely new character again without the support of the characters I already know, but I shouldn't have been worried at all. This book was quick and clever and just so sensitively done. It always is, but it felt more noticeable in this story, which starts off with some commonplace childhood bullying and just as commonplace issues surrounding puberty and what it is supposedly required to be a boy or girl. And while I'm certainly no horse girl, I have a lot of respect for just how well that identity fit into the hoof-filled setting.

It's always a pleasure to see how the kids learn to make decisions and process the consequences of their actions. I hope we get to see Regan again in later books!

I was a bit worried to be interested to a completely new character again without the support of the characters I already know, but I shouldn't have been worried at all. This book was quick and clever and just so sensitively done. It always is, but it felt more noticeable in this story, which starts off with some commonplace childhood bullying and just as commonplace issues surrounding puberty and what it is supposedly required to be a boy or girl. And while I'm certainly no horse girl, I have a lot of respect for just how well that identity fit into the hoof-filled setting.

It's always a pleasure to see how the kids learn to make decisions and process the consequences of their actions. I hope we get to see Regan again in later books!

Ell

rated it

Sept. 20, 2022