OMG! WE GET TO SEE THE OTHER SCHOOL!

Oh. Oh it’s… No. Cora, please don’t. 

A different adventure for the Wayward Children awaits and it might cost them their doors forever. We pick up again with Cora still being haunted by the Drowned Gods and looking for anything and everything to banish them from her nightmares. That brings us and her to Whitethorn Institute. Everything Eleanor’s home is, Whitethorn is not. Cora has to navigate a very different kind of existence here, including closing herself off to the Trenches forever. There’s something darker and stranger at the Institute than anyone realizes. Cora and friends will have to make a choice. I won’t spoil the main plot line, but it’s easy to see parallels in her story to current events here in the US. It’s a bittersweet read with the barest of hopes hanging on to the end. I can only hope that our doors appear for us soon, too.