I love this series, but I admittedly always have to steel myself before reading any book in them – especially the ones about childrens’ individual fates with their doors and the worlds they find through them.

Nadya had three mothers: the one who bore her, the country that poisoned her, and the one who adopted her.
Nadya never considered herself less than whole, not until her adoptive parents fitted her with a prosthetic arm against her will, seeking to replace the one she’d been missing from ...