The Doorway and the Deep

by K. E. Ormsbee

Overview

Travel back to the enchanting and treacherous land of Limn, where Lottie Fiske has escaped the murderous Southerly king for a while—but other perils are hard on her heels. War is coming to the beautiful world of magic that Lottie has come to love. Events are pushing her to the North, where many answers—about her parents, about her abilities, about this world and others—await. But the road to the north is full of dangers, and so are the answers.

Likened to the works of E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and C. S. Lewis, K. E. Ormsbee's vividly imagined world will appeal to readers who have been down the rabbit hole or through the wardrobe, and to anyone who has ever been braver than they thought they were.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452136363
Publisher:	Chronicle Books
Publication date:	10/04/2016
Series:	Water and the Wild Series , #2
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	HL720L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

K.E. Ormsbee lives in Lexington, Kentucky. She grew up with a secret garden in her backyard and a spaceship in her basement. This is her second book in the Water and the Wild series.

Editorial Reviews

"Readers of the first volume will settle right into this and then leave it eager for a third." -Kirkus Reviews

"Readers of the first volume will settle right into this and then leave it eager for a third." -Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2016-07-20
Amid the plague-ridden wisps in the alternative world of Limn, half-sprite, half-human Lottie Fiske attempts to sharpen her healing powers while undertaking a daring quest in this sequel to The Water and the Wild (2015). With the touch of her hands—her keen—Lottie healed her friend Eliot once, but the longer he stays in Limn, the sicker he becomes. King Starkling has hacked down the apple tree that provides access to the human world in order to extract silver for his evil plan to build a world gorge—a conduit not just between worlds, but within worlds, allowing him to deploy armies. In exchange for access to an apple tree to visit home with Eliot, Lottie agrees to the perilous journey north to gather addersfork needed to kill the king. She and her companions encounter fearsome creatures, including large leonine-lupine Barghests, toads that triple in number when squished, huge ice crawlers, and an assassin. In the north she learns more about her parents from Rebel Gem, the sprite leader, who recognizes that Lottie’s keen works only when she develops empathy. The cliffhanger ending portends another book in the series; readers new to the series should start with Book 1. Ormsbee creates a robust magical world populated by a legion of characters, political intrigue, and a spunky heroine, depicted as white on the cover. Readers of the first volume will settle right into this and then leave it eager for a third. (Fantasy. 10-14)

Kirkus Reviews