At least here, Lundy is given the choice. I find it interesting that of all the various fantasy world McGuire has shown us in this series, absolutely none of them sound like a place I would want to spend more than a few minutes, yet they are clearly ideal homes for the characters in the stories, who nevertheless are rudely evicted. Here we see the devastating effects on the family of the children disappearing in the first place. The other books in the series show the devastating effect on the children of being returned to their mundane worlds. This latest entry in the "Wayward Children" series is stand alone: we follow the story of Katherine Lundy from when she first discovers her own fantasy world of the Goblin Market, with its rigidly enforced rules of fair exchange, until the fateful day she has to decide whether to stay with her family, or stay in the world of her heart’s desire.
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