Summer in Orcus
T. Kingfisher
4.43 · 14 ratings · Published: 25 Jan 2017
Along comes the crone Baba Yaga in her magical walking house, who spies Summer through the alley gate and offers to provide her heart’s desire. Summer has no idea what this might be, but with the lighting of a frog-shaped beeswax candle she finds herself transported to the strange world of Orcus with nothing but a weasel in her pocket.
Like any girl of her age, she's read lots of fantasy books about people thrust into strange lands; but they usually seemed to have had some idea what they were supposed to do there.
Join Summer as she attempts to follow glimpses of turquoise across Orcus with the help of a weasel, a wolf with a house problem, and an aristocratic hoopoe with a penchant for trouble. Along the way she just might figure out what she is looking for, save a wondrous thing, and realize that some of the talents which she takes for granted are mighty useful indeed.
- fantasy 4
- action / adventure 3
- dragons 3
- magic 3
- portal travel 3
- fairy tales 2
- folktales & legends 2
- witches & sorcerers 2
- high fantasy 2
- children 2
- retellings 2
- female mc 2
- shapeshifters 2
- monsters/creatures 1
- fae/elves 1
- animals 1
- horror 1
- dogs 1
- dark 1
- paranormal 1
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- format - reader age
- young adult 3
- middle grade 3
- book 1