Holy small but mighty! Every Heart a Door was a diamond in the rough that kept me gripped from page one all the way to the 175th page. The characters, setting, but most importantly the way that McGuire wove all of these with such an intriguing and heart shattering story of loss and trying to find who you are in a world that you don't belong in anymore was fantastic. 
 I will be the first to admit that when I picked Every Heart a Doorway was because I've heard somethings about it, most of them mixed, and it seemed an interesting and fast read. Boy am I happy that I did. 
 The story begin with a girl named Nancy being sent to a place called by hear parents. Nancy, along with everyone else in the school, are those little girls that get lost and visit other worlds. Unfortunately, all of these girls for reasons all different have left their worlds. To the girls at this is heartbreaking because all they want to do is to find their way back to their worlds. It is mentioned that there is a school in another part of the United States that harbors students who do not wish to go back and want to forget what they have learned and seen in their own worlds. I find this very idea one of the most fascinating and I hope that we get to see some of those students down the line in the rest of the books. 
 One of the things that drew me to this story was how diverse the cast of characters were. It is easy, especially in this type of story, to make all of the characters white, able bodied, and straight characters. This was not the case with the characters of this story. There is an asexual character and a transgendered character. There also is a character that is POC and characters that due to the worlds that they are in need special equipment to adjust to our world again. 
 While I enjoyed the short length, I can't but feel that this book could have had so much more interaction between the students and learning about them as people. Most of the time while reading I can pin point if a book is going to be character driven or plot driven book. For the life of me I cannot tell you what Every Heart a Doorway was because of the length. It was too short. But I understand and believe that each of the series are going to be following a different character and it will allow us to get a better grasp on them as individuals. 
 These girls do speak crudely and that might pull some people away from the story but for me it seemed legitimate to how some of these girls lived. For some of them, they lived and grew up in these worlds to be thrust back and in some cases into the body that they left in they would be more grown up then grownups reading this book would expect from a 17 year old. 
 If you have the time, I recommend that you give Every Heart a Doorway a chance. It is a book that will grip you and won't let you go. 
 "We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women."