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Average rating3.9
A boxed set of five volumes featuring the Murray children and their friends as they travel through time and encounter strange creatures.
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5 primary books6 released booksTime Quintet is a 6-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by Madeleine L'Engle.
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8 primary booksKairos is a 8-book series with 8 primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by Madeleine L'Engle and Ulysse Malassagne.
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Overall, I give this one an okay. I love the characters and how relatable Meg is. I love the fantastic imagination of creatures. I love that there could be problems on the scale of galaxies similar to the problems on the very micro scale. However, the story didn't work for me. It mostly worked...I was mostly there until the last third or so. I dunno. I really wanted to love this book because A Wrinkle In Time is such a delight.
I noticed in my re-read of A Wrinkle in Time just how fast everything happened. This is the case again in A Wind in the Door, although it didn't stand out to me as much, perhaps because I have a history with the characters from Wrinkle. This time, Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace are not just meeting fantastical beings and moving through space, but they are exploring size and relativity through (real) mitochondria and (fictional) farandolae. (Note: I had to google whether farandolae are real, and in doing so, I came across farandole, which is a kind of French dance in which the dancers form a chain. The farandolae in the book dance in a circle together, and this can't be a coincidence.) I love the way Madeleine L'Engle explores huge ideas through interpersonal relationships: the idea that a human being is like a galaxy to a farandola, but that what happens to that farandola affects its human host, and so by implication, what happens to one human matters to the entire galaxy.
The story in this one was more compelling. I liked it better than A Wrinkle in Time.
Madeline L'engle at her best. Creating fabulous characters and worlds and creatures to teach us hope, to be better humans, connect us with our Creator, and comforting us when the pains of life get too strong.