Across the Green Grass Fields, by Seanan McGuire

This series has a really good formula and Seanan McGuire puts out solid work. She understands and is writing for girls just crossing that line from girl to woman. This time bringing some diverse understanding in by making the main character intersex. Folks like this are near and dear to me so I have stuck with this series as a way of understanding them.

The setup and characterization are fine here, if slightly threadbare at this point. It's a concept that's been worked pretty hard now, and I find myself paying attention to the fact that "our world", the one these children come from and go back to, is central, and all others are relatively simple expressions of one kind of fantasy space or another. In this one it's fantasy equines. Why privilege our world, without doing that explicitly?

Have to say this one disappoints due to the ending. It's just kind of lame. Ending books is hard, and it just seems like McGuire was on deadline to get this out and start on the next one. 2.5 rounded up for a sensitive story.

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