This latest installment of the Wayward Children novellas take a slightly darker (which is saying something) turn. Cora was taken in by the Drowned Gods of the Moors when she and her friends were last there, and is afraid that it’ll mean she can never go back to her own world of the Trenches. So she willingly leaves Eleanor West’s school for the other school that deals with children like her – a place that is as opposite as can be.
I was a little worried about this book – these are dark enough as they are, and I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go where this could go. Fortunately, the friendships that have developed here are enough that I shouldn’t have worried about it. In the end, there is a rescue, and we have several new friends with back stories to explore.