In an Absent Dream

The author beautifully portrays the overwhelming experience of being on the threshold of maturity... Choose wisely, and choose this book. --Kirkus

This is a lovely installment of the series, with pitch-perfect fairy-tale logic...The series as a whole has wonderfully internally consistent world building--and characters, no matter how far in the background, with complexity and depth. --Booklist

Praise for Every Heart a Doorway

With Every Heart a Doorway, McGuire has created her own mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy -- a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics, even as it carves its own precocious space between them. -- NPR

Seanan McGuire has long been one of the smartest writers around, and with this novella we can easily see that her heart is as big as her brain. --Charlaine Harris

One of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read. --V. E. Schwab

This is a gorgeous story: sometimes mean, sometimes angry, and always exciting. --Cory Doctorow for BoingBoing

So mindblowingly good, it hurts. --io9

McGuire's lyrical prose makes this novella a rich experience. --Library Journal starred review

This gothic charmer is a love letter to anyone who's ever felt out of place. -- Publishers Weekly

Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human heart in a powerful fable of loss, yearning and damaged children. -- Paul Cornell, author of London Falling and Witches of Lychford