Today I’m reviewing Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire — a tiny book with impossible emotional weight. It’s short, sharp, gorgeously imaginative, and somehow shatters you in under 200 pages.

McGuire takes the classic portal-fantasy idea and flips it on its head, exploring what happens after kids return from magical worlds — and how heartbreakingly hard it is to come back to a reality that no longer fits. It’s eerie, thoughtful, tender, and brutal in all the best ways.

This was a 5-star read for me — no hesitation. If you love fantasy that’s lyrical, queer, unsettling, and devastatingly human, this is one you need on your shelf.

✨ Tune in for my spoiler-free breakdown — why this novella hits so hard, the themes that linger, and whether the rest of the Wayward Children series lives up to book one. Follow on Spotify and subscribe on YouTube for more fantasy and speculative fiction deep dives every week.

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