Through Gates of Garnet and Gold
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4.3 • 23 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Selection!
A fan-favorite character returns in this action-packed installment of the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series.
After Nancy was cast out of the Halls of the Dead and forced to enroll at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children, she never believed she'd find her door again, and when she did, she didn't look back. She disappeared from the school to resume her place in the Halls, never intending to return.
Years have passed. A darkness has descended on the Halls, and the living statues who populate them are dying at the hands of the already dead. The Lord and Lady who rule the land are helpless to stop the slaughter, forcing Nancy to leave the Halls again, this time on purpose, as she attempts to seek much-needed help from her former schoolmates.
But who would volunteer to quest in a world where the dead roam freely?
And why are the dead so intent on adding to their number?
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Customer Reviews
Adventure in the Halls of the Dead
“Through Gates of Garnet and Gold” is the newly released eleventh novella in Seanan McQuire’s Wayward Children Series. These have clearly become the ultimate portal fantasy series for modern readers. In these novellas, certain children, young adults, and rarely special adults, find impossible doorways to places they need, or that need them. Sometimes they return to our world, sometimes they go back.
The novella starts in the familiar Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Christopher is in his basement room, when a door opens in the wall. Through this door comes Nancy, who had left the school to return to her world where she was happy to be a living statue in the Halls of the Dead.
She has come seeking help, because her world has changed. The unquiet dead have begun killing the living statues who were previously protected by their stillness. The Lord and Lady of the Dead are powerless in this situation. Therefore, yet another forbidden quest is put together, and a group of students set forth to the Halls of the Dead.
These stories are modern and inclusive fairy tales, with which readers from the 21st century can relate. I’m now looking forward to the next installment in the series, which does not appear to have been concluded as of yet. Reading the next installment has become a welcome annual ritual for me!