Beneath the Sugar Sky

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher ---

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world.

When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)

If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests...A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.

Warning: May contain nuts.

I am not sure if I “get” this book. I kept thinking it was like “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” but then it wasn’t. I kept thinking “Oh, is this a kid’s book or an adult’s book?” and then could not decide which is was…YA maybe? But I decidedly DID NOT ENJOY explaining the words vagina and pubic hair to my (very sheltered, on the autism spectrum) young nephew whose mother uses euphemisms lest he use an inappropriate word at school. That aside, I think that my niece enjoyed it ten times more than I did as she knew the book series and thought it was a “cracking good yarn!”