#lostinthemomentandfound

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💬 Happy Sunday! How are you spending your day? 🤎📖 A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here. If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore that this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it…. Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she finds that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds. And stepping through those doors exacts a price. Lost in the Moment and Found tells us that childhood and innocence, once lost, can never be found. Thank you to @tordotcompub for sending me a copy of the book and teaming up with me for a great giveaway! ✨ G I V E A W A Y ✨ Enter to win a copy of Lost in the Moment and Found TO ENTER: • follow me, @tordotcompub @seananmcguire and @storygramtours • tag a friend you think will be interested For an EXTRA entry: • visit @itsbibliotherapy tomorrow and repeat these steps RULES: • Giveaway will end Jan 16th at midnight EST • US ONLY • not affiliated with Instagram • must be 18 or have parents permission • must be a public account so entries can be verified . . . h a s h t a g s : #LostintheMomentandFound #seananmcguire #tordotcompub #bookstagram #bookphotography #bookphoto #desksetup #deskdecor #deskinspo #reading #booksbooksbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CnKfHHzOY2m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

REVIEW: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5 STARS

Since absolutely inhaling the Wayward Children series back in 2021, I’ve really come to look forward to this time of year when we we get the next installment in the series.

This latest addition follows Antsy, who runs away from a home that has become unsafe for her, when she stumbles across a Door that leads her to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. It’s a strange nexus world, where anything lost finds its way to the Shop (So Many Socks), and where many mysterious Doors that lead to fantastic worlds come to rest. Antsy meets some new companions, who teach her how the Shop is run, and who explore the mysterious Door worlds with her. But as time goes on, it becomes apparent that maybe not everything at the Shop is as it should be…

I really loved this book. I loved the idea of the Shop, I thought the book raised some interesting questions surrounding the Doors and why/how they exist, I loved the couple of callbacks to previous books and characters, and above all, I loved Antsy. McGuire’s writing continues to be absolutely sublime, and the way she is able to balance the bitter and the sweet, the heartbreaking and the magical, and the poignant with the enchanting, really shows how phenomenal of a writer Seanan McGuire is.

I want to take a moment to touch on the events surrounding Antsy’s home life at the beginning of the book, in regards to her experiences with loss, grief, and a very specific and distressing childhood trauma. I want to stress how important it is to check the content warnings for this book, and to read the authors note at the beginning of the book. I think McGuire’s note, and really the way she wrote Antsy’s story throughout the entire book, handled an incredibly important but incredibly heavy topic with a lot of grace and compassion.

I’m so fond of the world/s that McGuire has crafted throughout the series. I wish these books were not novellas, but instead 400+ page books, because whenever I am reading one, I never want to leave the worlds, and I never want the book to end! But I will read this series for as long as Seanan wants to keep writing it.

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