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In an Absent Dream

par Seanan McGuire

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Séries: Wayward Children (4)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Mythology. HTML:

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex Award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway
/> This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.
When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.
The Wayward Children Series
Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway
Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky
Book 4: In an Absent Dream

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Along with "Every Heart a Doorway", this is my favorite book in the series so far! Nearly every aspect of it was spot-on for me: the beautiful, insightful writing, the world of the Goblin Market, and Lundy herself. Although the ending was slightly too rushed in my opinion, I think it actually fit in well with other themes in the story, so it also worked on another level. I seriously can't wait for the next book to come out! ( )
  deborahee | Feb 23, 2024 |
I loved this book! The world was interesting, Lundy was fun to follow, and it just felt so cozy. I would love to spend more time exploring the Goblin Market. ( )
  LynnMPK | Jan 10, 2024 |
Marketed as a standalone novel, it is the fourth in publication order of the Wayward Children series. Katherine Lundy was a minor character in the first novel, a teacher at Miss West's school for children who have been through portals to other worlds. In this novel, we learn her backstory.

Katherine, never Katie or Kitty, is an utterly average child, ostracized by other students because her father is principal. She strives to blend in and be invisible. One day she finds a rather unique doorway, one that allows her to travel back and forth between the world of her birth and the Goblin Market, pretty much at will. On the other side she makes close friends, fights battles, and is happy with the strict rules of fairness that govern that world. Her trips back and forth, however, can only last until her 18th birthday, when she must decide which side of the door she will make her permanent home.

I liked this story, although I was a bit slow and didn't make the connection between Katherine and the Miss Lundy of the first book until embarrassingly late. I found it a nice solid return to reason after the last book, which takes place in Confection, and I appreciated the more thought-provoking premise than the quest-format of the last book as well. ( )
  labfs39 | Jan 1, 2024 |
We first met Katherine Lundy (never Kate or Kat or Kitty or Katie or Kathy) in EVERY HEART A DOORWAY where she was the School's Psychologist. We learned a little of why she was so young and growing only younger as time passed by as a cautionary tale.

Much like DOWN AMONG THE STICKS AND BONES, this is the tale of how Lundy (for that name fit her as well as, if not better, thean Katherine ever did) found herself at Eleanor's side after being forced out of her "door".

There is a certain sense of...hope in both EHAD and its direct sequel BENEATH THE SUGAR SKY, that DATSAB and IAAD don't have. We know the fates of Lundy, Jack and Jill before we began their respective prequel tales. We know that no matter how hopeful and happy and content they are in their stories in the NOW, something must occur that breaks that happiness and thrusts them back here to "reality".

McGuire double downs on that with Lundy's tale.

Katherine Lundy is, like I'm sure many of us when we were younger, content with words and books and solitude in a way that most adults find both pleasing and disquieting at the same time. Not so disquieting that she concerns them, just enough that they absently wonder if there's something more that could be done.

In Katherine's case she could have lived a much different life if her father - the Principal of her local school - had noticed how his job could negatively effect his daughter, but that's not how Lundy's story goes and in its time its considered and dealt with.

The Goblin Market is both a Haven for those of us who prefer structure to their lives and a nightmare to those of us who are in cautious with our words. There is an invisible but defined "line" in the Goblin Market that should be treaded around carefully and which on the face of it should be easy enough to stay on the right side of.

It boils down to "treat others as you want to be treated". All this talk of "fair value" is just that really. No one likes feeling like they were cheated and no one should purposely make others feel that way.

For Lundy, and honestly for me, this almost made enough sense to feel comfortable. Its when faced with something that is harder to pin down - like say the death of a beloved playmate and friend - when things get...iffy.

And that's where Lundy found herself stumbling. The Archivist tried to make her understand, tried to make her SEE, but as Lundy grew older she lost that sense of understanding because let's face it - adulthood makes us lose a sense of "fair value" for tangible things, how much harder is it with the intangible? Does the "fair value" measure emotional value, monetary value, or both?

If my younger sister said to me "How is it fair of you to disappear and deprive me of an older sister?" what is the "fair value" there? How do you put a tangible, or at least an agreed upon, value on those lost years? Those lost memories? How do you pay back such a debt?

Who knows if that lost time would have made us closer or drive us apart after all. For Diana, who wanted nothing as much as to have an older sister to do things with, Lundy's continual disappearance/reappearance was a horrific crime against her. For Lundy, she barely thought of her sister and rarely considered her feelings if ever, so those lost years meant very little to her until they were brought to her attention as a debt she had to repay.

She was warned of the danger of trying to be clever with the rules, she in fact accused her own father of that sort of clever devilry that eventually leads to her ruin...and yet.

Young Lundy is nothing like the jaded, bitter realist of EHAD, but in seeing the lessons she has to learn (the hard way in many cases) and the sacrifices she doesn't make, you can understand her actions (and advice) in EHAD far better.

Which is so heart breaking all things considered. ( )
  lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |
a book with unusual choices - what would be the major plot points in another book are unexplained background details. This lets the book focus on the main character and a sparse strand of her life. ( )
  danielskatz | Dec 26, 2023 |
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Nom de l'auteurRôleType d'auteurŒuvre ?Statut
Seanan McGuireauteur principaltoutes les éditionscalculé
Hopkins, CynthiaNarrateurauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Hunt, RobertArtiste de la couvertureauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Stafford-Hill, JamieConcepteur de la couvertureauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé

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Come buy, come buy:
Our grapes fresh from the vine,
Pomegranates full and fine,
Dates and sharp bullaces,
Rare pears and greengages,
Damsons and bilberries,
Taste them and try:
Currants and gooseberries,
Bright-fire-like barberries,
Figs to fill your mouth,
Citrons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye;
Come buy, come buy.

-CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, GOBLIN MARKET
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1964: In a house, on a street, in a town ordinary enough in every aspect to cross over its own roots and becoming remarkable, there lived a girl named Katherine Victoria Lundy.
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Fantasy. Fiction. Mythology. HTML:

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex Award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway
This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.
When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.
The Wayward Children Series
Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway
Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky
Book 4: In an Absent Dream

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