Through Gates of Garnet and Gold

 Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire, 149 pages.

Everyone thought that when Nancy found her door and got to go home, nobody at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children would ever see her again. But when ghosts start devouring the living statues in the Halls of the Dead she realizes she wants to live more than she wants to be in the place it feels like she belongs, so she is back at the school asking Eleanor to break the school's "no quests" rule again. 

It was so nice to spend time with Nancy again! Overall, this book does a good job bringing back a lot of the original cast from the first book, and giving them a chance to interact again. I also found the descriptions of the Halls of the Dead very striking. That being said, I feel like that character work in this book is a little weaker than many other in the series. Despite the fact that Kade is in this book the whole time, I don't feel like I know much more about him then when we started, and even Nancy's major changes seem to happen mostly off-page. I'm still really enjoying this series, but I don't know that this is the strongest entry.