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    Beneath the Sugar Sky
    Beneath the Sugar Sky
    Beneath the Sugar Sky
    Audiobook4 hours

    Beneath the Sugar Sky

    Written by Seanan McGuire

    Narrated by Michelle Dockrey

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    About this audiobook

    Another fantasy audiobook from Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, which began with the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Every Heart a Doorway.

    Beneath the Sugar Sky    , the third audiobook in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns listeners to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world.

    When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)

    If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests...

    A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.

    Warning: May contain nuts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJan 9, 2018
    ISBN9781427293787
    Beneath the Sugar Sky
    Author

    Seanan McGuire

    SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award–winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!

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    • 5/5
      i really feel like i will love reading these books until the last book
    • 5/5
      filled with non-sense and magic beyond anyone's dreams. There is so much whimsy and magic in this book, you will find your head spinning in delirium
    • 5/5
      I love this series!! This world as the craziest one yet lol
    • 5/5
      I just chant get enough of this series, it’s wonderful and easy to picture in your mind.
    • 3/5
      Not my favourite in the series as i didnt really care for Sumi but i was fine
    • 5/5
      I've listened to all of these and I love this series so much, I'm excited for the next book to come out and honestly, I feel like this would make a great television series. I know I'd keep coming back for more. <3
    • 4/5
      It was a nice book, not my favorite in the series. I love the characters tho
    • 3/5
      I like the second book better. I kinda invested in the world but not the plot.
    • 5/5
      Sweet, genuine, a real embrace of the heart! I can't decide my favourite in the series. It's a tough choice. Loving these audio books as my first experience with the plantaform.
    • 4/5
      "Beneath the Sugar Sky" was different than the first two books in the series, as the characters were on a quest, but overall I really enjoyed it. The plot was fun, it developed more some well-known characters, introduced some cool new ones, and we visited Nancy and Sumi's world. It doesn't have a lot of stakes, but it was still enjoyable.

      It also helps that we were following my favourite character from "Every Heart a Doorway", Kade, and there is some more focus on Christpoher, and I'm in love with him now. Besides them, we get to know three new main characters: Cora (who I genuinely liked it, and would love to read more books about her), Nadya (who I couldn't care less, to be honest, although her world sounds interesting), and Rini (who was honestly so annoying at first, but kind of grew on me).

      During their quest, they also visit two different worlds: the Halls of the Dead, where they find Nancy again (it was great to see her in a natural habitat!), and Confection, which honestly reminded me a lot of the world made of sweets from Wreck It Ralph. This part of visiting different worlds was honestly my favourite, besides the characters, as I found it so fascinating how different they are, with their different rules and features.

      I read "Beneath the Sugar Sky" as an audiobook, and the narrator was pretty good: it was like I was being told a fairy tale, which I think added up to my enjoyment of the whole book.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this one as I did the others, this one was more 'adventurous' :)
    • 5/5
      Truly a deserving and worthy sequel. Cannot wait to keep reading
    • 5/5
      Seaman McGuire wrote a brilliant, masterful story, as always. I really hope we get a book detailing Cora’s story before she came to the school.
    • 5/5
      Amazing, unique, loved it, needs the fourth book NOOOOOOW! :D
    • 4/5
      I love this series so much. I loved how the daughter came back and the journey they all took together. I really hope this series continues on. I listened to this on audio and loved it. Never a dull moment. I want to live in a sugary confectionary place! Where’s my door lol
    • 5/5
      It’s my favorite of the series so far! It even kinda reminded me of Alice in Wonderland a little bit.
    • 5/5
      This is the most fun, creative series I have ever read. Full of colourful characters and quirky worlds. Highly Recommend.
    • 3/5
      it was ok. very interesting world, but the plot was a bit dull. i prefer the second book. jack was missed.
    • 1/5
      I didn't like the WOKE Toxic Wrong Body Positivity!!! Just not right!!
    • 5/5
      I loved this wild ride of an adventure. Such a marvelous piece of literature!
    • 4/5
      Just as good as the previous ones in the series, but this one was more Alice's Adventures in Wonderland like. That's probably because the children travel to a nonsense world this time, made of sugar and baked into reality, but there's still the familiar theme of walking skeletons and a flute made of a human bone and the halls of the death. This one continues to tackle issues like body shame and identity, while maintaining its unique way of making everyone whole, complex and layered and a hero.
    • 4/5
      This series just keeps getting better and so far never disappoint ... I loved the subjects that were discussed in this book , such as fat shaming ... I think this book can be inspirational and helpful to many who suffer from bullying by any kind .
    • 3/5
      My expectations were low and it was better than that but it was still just fine.
    • 2/5
      I liked the other books in the series much better than this one. I didn't like the introduction of the new character, Cora. She seemed very one dimensional and took away from my enjoyment of the overall story.
    • 2/5
      Meh... first two were way better but I'll keep reading to see what else happens.
    • 4/5
      Listened to this by audiobook and on 2x speed.

      * Fairytale Retelling
      * Adventure story
      * Character Focused
      * Talking about death
      * Short Story
      * Book 3 - Wayward Children Series

      Review

      This was a fun book to read/listen to and also I enjoyed each character following their journey and friendships, a book full of adventure that I see worth going on from a land of death to the land of candy ? ?.

      4.5 Stars
    • 2/5
      The Audiobook was just horrible, maybe if I would read it as a real book I would enjoy it more. The narrator was screaming all the time, especially as Rini.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Not a great follow up to a beautiful kind beginning.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      This is my third try with this series. I really wish I wasn't struggling so much. I really wish I loved this as much as everyone else.

      These books are rife with tell and not show, and it feels like I'm wading through all this tell before I can get into the actual story. I actually love most of the characters, and the author is making me hate them with how much writing that she surrounds them with. I actually hated Rini, which was kind of a problem since the entire story is based on saving her.

      I guess I'm just not getting it, you guys. I just don't find these books compelling. They're weak and seem to go on too long, which is terrible, since they're really short. Even the audiobook version isn't hooking me. Although I think the author does a great job at reading.

      I won't do the next one. I'm kind of curious about Jack and Jill's next installment though, so I'll probably give that a try. I'm expecting to DNF it though.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Not as good as the first two, but I still enjoyed this book. Felt more childish than the first two books.

      1 person found this helpful