Katherine Lundy is a bookish, rule-abiding 8-year-old when a door suddenly appears before her during her walk home. As a curious child, she opens it and walks through to find herself in The Goblin Market, a fantastical land filled with all manner of creatures and an overriding law of fairness. Lundy, as she dubs herself in this strange land, soon learns that she can come and go from the Market as she pleases, but must make the decision whether to stay permanently there or in the mundane world before her 18th birthday.
The fourth entry in McGuire's Wayward Children, In An Absent Dream lives up to the high standard McGuire set with the previous entries. It packs quite the punch emotionally, and inspires quite a bit of thinking about what is actually a fair price for everything from pie to friendship to happiness. We'll be discussing the first book in this series (Every Heart a Doorway) at the February Orcs & Aliens book group, and I can't wait to talk about it with everyone.
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