Emma’s Reviews > The Faraway Inn > Status Update

This was lovely. The acknowledgements made me cry. I love a book about characters learning what they love and how to ask for help.

Not me tearing up at the acknowledgements.

You build what you want to build, offer it as widely as you can to whoever you think will appreciate it, and if other people like or don’t like it … that’s on them. Not you.

A place like this inn is what you allow it to be. It’s a deep breath, but you are still the one who must breathe deeply.

Rin offered, and I said yes.

Everything changes, and it’s okay.

… Auntie Zee was insistent that portal openings were about being open to change, to new experiences, to new emotions.

It’s not fancy, but it’s nice.
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I’m sure it’s a coincidence but this is like the tagline for circa 1980s automat

I’m going to be very surprised if we don’t find out Portia is a shapeshifting cat.

She was going to keep moving forward, even if Auntie Zee didn’t want to.