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Summer in Orcus eBook T Kingfisher

I have loved every T. Kingfisher book and this was no exception. Summer is a girl with an overbearing to the point of smothering mother, who finds the Baba Yaga in her back yard and gets sent to Orcus to find her heart's desire--though she doesn't know what it is.

Charming, delightful, with a dark bite to it, this is a portal fantasy done wonderfully. Summer meets birds, a were-house, a dragon, and a deeply creepy bad guy. I loved the resolution of the Big Bad, and I really really loved how Kingfisher handled the end. If the end of the Dark is Rising series upset you, you will love this.


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Summer in Orcus eBook T Kingfisher Reviews

This is the kind of book I wish I'd had growing up. The characters are all deeply drawn; even most of the villains aren't entirely unsympathetic.

A little girl, with help (sort of) from Baba Yaga, goes in search of her heart's desire...not actually knowing quite what it is. Along the way she meets many, many odd beings, figures out what she's supposed to do, and becomes the hero she's always saying she isn't. If Lewis Carroll had written the Wizard of Oz, it might have had something of this feel to it, but the feel is only part of what's great about this book. This is some serious STORY, man! I blew off my whole afternoon because I could NOT stop reading "just one more chapter."

Some of this might be too scary for children under 7 or so, but I'm absolutely recommending it to...well, everyone!
I absolutely love Summer in Orcus. It has a taste of Narnia, but it’s on a smaller scale. Summer isn’t a queen; she isn’t meant to save entire worlds. She’s lost and tired and scared. Her friends include a wolf (who turns into a house when night falls–he’s a were-house), a dandy of a hoopoe bird who owes people money, and a weasel who’s just as scared as she is. Early on she stumbles into a dying dryad and finds she feels a sense of need to help that dryad, but she has no idea how. The only hint she has as to her path is from a cheese-selling man who cuts a slice of a cheese that predicts the future, and this one says that her path will be marked with turquoise. A turquoise dragonfly, vivid blue eyes of a forester…the color isn’t always there to lead her, but it comes up often enough that she thinks she’s still on the right path.

Summer in Orcus is a smaller, folktale-sized version of something like Narnia, where young people have to go to another world and put it to rights. This one is cozier and very imaginative, and as an adult I love it.
I'd never heard of this author and downloaded this book entirely based on the reviews and plot summary. I was delighted...it read a bit like a good old fashioned fairy tale but at the same time was completely "adult friendly."
Review first posted on jenasbookreviews.blogspot.com

Summer has spent all of her 11yrs of life under the thumb of her mother's love. It's not easy being so loved and she tries not to be resentful of it but some days she just wants to break out and do something just a teeny bit dangerous just to prove that she won't die from it. Then one day a strange house walks into the neighborhood on chicken legs and she meets Baba Yaga who, in a generous mood that day, promises to grant her heart's desire. Having been so sheltered, Summer has no idea what that might be so Baba Yaga sends her through a door that leads to another world called Orcus, a world that has a darkness lying at its heart. Here Summer finds a tree that should produce frogs but can't, a talking bird that is a dandy but has a good heart, a wolf that turns into a house when the sun goes down, a Forester with the heart of a dragon, and so many others. Some help, some trick, some try to stop her but still she does not know her heart's desire so keeps looking for her way which may just lead her to Queen in Chains whose darkness is corrupting Orcus.

A lovely version of a fairy tale that has all the elements of whimsy you could wish for with fun surprises scattered throughout. It's a tale of growing up but also of learning and most of all, how important it is to just stop and listen. I hadn't heard of T. Kingfisher before but apparently one of my book club ladies loves her and based on that, Seanan McGuire's Wayward children series was recommended. After reading this, I can absolutely see why and I look forward to reading more by her in the future.
I truly wish I could give this book more than 5 stars. This is probably one of my favorites of all time. The writing was superb, the characters completely developed, the pace was perfect and the story was just fantastic, like Narnia and The Wizard of Oz rolled together in one and then some. I could actually picture this world as well as the characters as I read. I was swept away along with Summer and felt as though I was on the journey with her. The writers imagination was endless and it all fit nicely together. This was my first book by her and I already purchased 2 others. Truly amazing read for all ages and would love to perhaps see someone make this a movie!
It tastes like how I felt when I was eleven, it felt like how you feel when you wake up from a dream, not everything makes sense and yet nothing is out of place. It was like Alice in wonderland and coraline and narnia and the little prince, it was about the courage of the innocent and the friends we make along the way... I will remember this book fondly and it shall forever have a place in my heart.
So it's portal fantasy, with a young girl protagonist and a magical world in peril and comical animal friends and a wicked witch and a glorious green city and a smile that fades last...
And it's somehow completely original.
And it's filling and nourishing like a familiar stew cooked with love by someone fond of you- someone with a deep spice cabinet.
I have loved every T. Kingfisher book and this was no exception. Summer is a girl with an overbearing to the point of smothering mother, who finds the Baba Yaga in her back yard and gets sent to Orcus to find her heart's desire--though she doesn't know what it is.

Charming, delightful, with a dark bite to it, this is a portal fantasy done wonderfully. Summer meets birds, a were-house, a dragon, and a deeply creepy bad guy. I loved the resolution of the Big Bad, and I really really loved how Kingfisher handled the end. If the end of the Dark is Rising series upset you, you will love this.