Reality is catching up, though, and Rini is beginning to fade away while her kingdom plunges into chaos-all because her mother was killed before she could return to save the realm and start a family. But Confection is a Nonsense world, and the fact that it’s populated by impossibilities isn’t so surprising. Not just because she comes from a magical land made out of candy, but because she claims to be the daughter of a girl who was killed during the events of Every Heart a Doorway, years before Rini could have been born. The story begins once more at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, when a mysterious girl in clothes spun from sugar comes tumbling out of the sky. With the third book in the series, which came out back at the beginning of 2018, McGuire shifts gears rather dramatically.īeneath the Sugar Sky is more directly a sequel to Every Heart a Doorway than the second book was, though I’ve found each of the novels in this series could essentially be read as a stand-alone. I also reviewed Down Among the Sticks and Bones, a prequel of sorts that depicts the adventures of twin sisters Jack and Jill in a land of vampires and mad scientists. Last year, I reviewed Every Heart a Doorway, in which McGuire introduces the boarding school full of misfit children who have returned from various fantasy lands. Beneath the Sugar Sky is the third book in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series.

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Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire