Seanan McGuire: Lost in the Moment and Found [Spotlight]

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Written By Chris Well

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“Seanan McGuire has rare ability to delve into deep subjects, in this case loss without drowning the reader in sorrow.” (Before We Go Blog)

Lost in the Moment and Found, the latest book from Seanan McGuire’s Hugo Award-winning and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series, is a standalone tale where a young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds...

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 a favorite toy from childhood... it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore 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 discovers 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.

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Reviews of Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire

“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.” (Before We Go Blog)

“Lost in the Moment and Found would be a perfect place to get into the series if you haven’t already found your way to the reading door that leads to it. Wherever you begin, it’s an awfully wonderful journey, particularly in the sense that it is chock-full of both awe and wonder.” (Reading Reality)

“As a whole, the Wayward Children series is beautiful, sad, emotional, and full of heartache and redemption. There’s hope and joy to offset the sorrow, but an undercurrent of sadness never quite leaves the stories or their characters. I love the series, and I’m so happy that Lost in the Moment and Found lives up to my (very high) expectations.” (Bookshelf Fantasies)

“Hugo Award winner McGuire manages to make some extreme tonal shifts work together beautifully.… Antsy’s emotional coming-of-age will have readers hooked.” (Publishers Weekly)

“The eighth book (after Where the Drowned Girls Go) of McGuire’s “Wayward Children” series is a haunting adventure about the loss of childhood innocence and ultimately, about finding strength and belonging. ” (Library Journal)

Also in the Wayward Children series:

  1. Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1)

  2. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children #2)

  3. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children #3)

  4. In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children #4)

  5. Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children #5)

  6. Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children #6)

  7. Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children #7)

Praise for the Wayward Children series

“The series as a whole has wonderfully internally consistent world building and characters, no matter how far in the background, with complexity and depth.” —Booklist

“A great read for middle and high schoolers who enjoy themes of friendship and family, and a magical world of unicorns and centaurs.” —School Library Journal on Across the Green Grass Fields

“A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics.” —NPR on Every Heart a Doorway

“Anyone who appreciates off-the-beaten-path adventures will be swept away.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Across the Green Grass Fields

“One of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read.” —V. E. Schwab on Every Heart a Doorway

About the Author

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!

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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