Every Heart a Doorway

This was ok, though I don't think I'm going to continue with the series. I thought the premise was great, a school for children who have been recovered from various magic worlds, but the book was too short to really delve into any of their stories. Also, it's a fantasy novel that turns into a murder mystery halfway through, which is kind of where it lost me. Day two of Nancy's stay at this boarding school and her roommate is murdered, and the successive murders are addressed by the headmistress with lines like “Stay together and try to survive the night.” There is a legitimate serial killer in your school, you need to do better than that. And since there is a relatively small pool of characters I was left assuming they were either going to get murdered, or were the murderer, and since they had all just been introduced I really didn't care either way.

Also, Nancy's fantasy world sounded incredibly boring, I honestly could not understand why she wanted to go back. It was a land of the dead, and her duty was to stand statue still and let them pour pomegranate juice against her closed mouth? Gee, where do I sign up.