Lost in the Moment and Found

I loved this iteration. It's about any characters that I already knew although there were some honourable mentions. I loved the idea of a place where things are lost just a giant library of lost things ready for them to be picked up when they needed them. And like many things in this series, there was another dark turn. 

It really felt like Ansty, with her experiences is being set up less as a student and more as a future teacher or caretaker of Eleanor West???s Home for Wayward Children. To replace Eleanor. I got that vibe anyway. I am so sad these books are not longer. I wish there were 50 more of them. 

Okay, if they keep getting better, I might end up as a fan of this series, after all.

Seanan McGuire has rare ability to delve into deep subjects, in this case loss without drowning the reader in sorrow.  This ability is what makes Wayward Children such a beautiful and compelling series. In this instance, the newest Wayward story, Lost in the Moment and Found, is a story about loss in all of its iterations.

Antoinette, or Antsy as she is refereed starts the story through here memory as a child of her father dying right in front of her, at Target of all places. The pain she feels at the loss of her beloved father colors her interactions through the rest of the story. And, while the pain of loss dulls with time and experience, the wound never really leaves you. Antsy is wounded, and dealing with trauma. Her mother, flawed as she is trying to make her way through the grief of the loss of her husband. And in that grief, she find love with a new man. Although Ansty doesn't trust the man, a child's intuition, she tries to be civil with him. But, there is a reason why loss is discussed in many forms and Antsy ends up physically lost hiding in the doorstop of a shop with big words above the door:

“Be Sure”

Antsy decides that she is, pushes through and finds out where lost things go. We start a journey into grief, healing, and loss. While Antsy is lost in so many ways, McGuire never for one moment allows the audience to become lost. We are at rapt attention page by page. If you haven't started this series, you aught to. This is one of the best series being written today, book after book. And I am sure that you will enjoy it as much as I did. if you decide to make the leap, and purchase the slim first book of the series, pause for a moment. Take a deep breath and be sure because you are about to go on an adventure.