#85 Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

The latest in the Wayward Children series introduces us to Antsy, a little girl who’s father dies during one of their weekly Daddy daughter trips to the store.  Her grieving mother remarries a year later and quickly has a baby with her new husband that gives Antsy the creeps.  Antsy runs away after being portrayed as unreliable and a liar to her mother by her stepfather before anything happens.  She finds shelter in a thrift store she had never seen before and stepping through that door has changed her world.  She finds herself a store where doors appear and if she goes through them, she can shop and bring back treasures for the store to sell. But the store also holds things that were lost and their owners can come and retrieve them as well. But not every lost thing is found again or found in time.

There is a cameo by some previous characters that fans of the series will recognize immediately. Now I can’t wait to see where Antsy, Antoinette Ricci fits into the wider universe now that her story and her door have been told.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss