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Beneath the Sugar Sky

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Beneath the Sugar Sky	comment	The third novella in the Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. It's a direct sequel to Every Heart a Doorway, detailing the ongoing adventures of the children at Eleanor West's boarding school.Rini is on a quest that takes her to an alien unmagical world where travel time is tied to distance, food is much harder to come by and the seas are made of saltwater. Why is she braving this terrible place? Because her mother Sumi was murdered years before she was meant to have Rini and now she needs to race Causality to set things right.Things shouldn't be too hard she knows where to look for her mother: Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. She might even get help, from human mermaids, drowned girls, skeleton lovers, goblin princes and even a still statue. They all have experience with other worlds, maybe not her and her mother's world but that is something right?Right?
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Discussed when Sumi first got to the School she was not taking her political exile well, apparently she almost tried to "cut the candy from her veins" her friends are offended on her behalf when Rini seems to say that Confection could have gotten her back home at any time.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_16dad7a7	type	It May Help You on Your Quest
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_16dad7a7	comment	It May Help You on Your Quest: Subverted, Ponder does give gifts and some advice to the group but they don't actually do anything. Rini points out it's essentially a cultural expectation.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_1bf2c338	type	The Maker
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_1bf2c338	comment	The Maker: There have been several Bakers of Confection, who build the world out of Nonsense and edible goods, adding layers each time. The current one is a teenager named Layla, and she would rather not be called a god...she's just a baker, and Confection works through her.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Nadya was born without a right forearm, mother russia isn't big on environmental regulation. Her adoptive mother couldn't get her to wear a prosthesis, but in her world of Belyyreka, she used a hand made out of saltwater that could be anything she wanted it to be.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_2f7a76ac	type	Can't Live Without You
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_2f7a76ac	comment	Can't Live Without You: When the Cake Queen's men take away Christopher's flute, he starts getting sick, and reveals that he had bone cancer before going to Mariposa, but his fiancée piped it away.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: The Queen of Cakes, its no surprise why Sumi is leading a rebellion against her.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Confection is literally made of sugar, but it has a significant dark side to it.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_56b8b4f1	type	Lean and Mean
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_56b8b4f1	comment	Lean and Mean: The Queen of Cakes. To rub this in, she mocks Cora for her weight.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_5c8fa553	type	Level Ate
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_5c8fa553	comment	Level Ate: Confection is a Reconstruction as it goes into how physical laws need to be very different for the Nonsense world to even exist. The History itself talks about how the The First Baker, a quasi-religious figure, who came to a barren wasteland and baked bread that didn't decay. Later Bakers came and made modern food creations and wildlife and invited people in. The fact that people haven't died of diabetes and tooth decay is Discussed.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: The summary gives away that Sumi was killed in the first book.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_7ad3ef97	type	Hair Colors
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_7ad3ef97	comment	Hair Colors: The unnatural version, Cora retained blue-green hair all over her body from her water world.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_7e851477	type	Balancing Death's Books
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: In order to take Sumi's soul from the Underworld, they have to leave a person behind. Nadya decides to stay, as the Underworld is close to her own Drowned Land, and Hades agrees to let her go if the door opens there.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_7f152e56	type	Our Mermaids Are Different
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_7f152e56	comment	Our Mermaids Are Different: Cora came from the Trenches, a world of mermaids. She had gills and fins, she fought the Serpent of Frozen Tears, and they were at war with the surface world as Cora remembers drowning sailors attacking them.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: The entire purpose of the book, it also goes out of its way to show why Sumi needs to come back.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: Let's see, the future daughter of a dead girl comes back to save her. She was born after said dead girl returned home to Confection and overthrew the tyrant Queen of Cakes, now alive after being dead for decades. People are following under her orders despite knowing things are off.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: well, more like they go to the Bus: Kade figures that they'd need to go to an Underworld in order to get Sumi's soul back, and Rini's candy necklace can take them to any world where sugar exists, so they go to the Halls of the Dead, where Nancy went at the end of the first book. As a side benefit, this allows Kade and Nancy to have a proper goodbye that her departure had prevented.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: While Rini is still able to exist for the moment, thanks to Confection being slow to catch up with the timeline, she will eventually cease to exist as her mother died before she was conceived.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Played with. They can't alter Sumi's death itself, but they can resurrect her to restore the original timeline.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_9f9540ae	type	We Can Rebuild Him
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_9f9540ae	comment	We Can Rebuild Him: The Baker rebuilds Sumi's body with various sweets, which the magic of Confection turns into a real body.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_aee8ec77	type	Creepy Children Singing
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_aee8ec77	comment	Creepy Children Singing: The book opens with a pretty impressive one, spun sugar land has something sour in it.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_b313b2f5	type	Gingerbread House
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_b313b2f5	comment	Gingerbread House: As expected given the Level Ate world they're in, the two structures that get focus are a castle and a farmer's house & you can tell even then there are different architectural fashions.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_ba44639	comment	Killed Offscreen: Happens to a guard courtesy of Kade as the group exits the castle, given how wonky time is the situation is treated as a tragedy given the guy probably didn't know who he even was.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Sumi's father, Ponder, by his own admission.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_d72b162f	type	Technicolor Eyes
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_d72b162f	comment	Technicolor Eyes: Rini has candy-corn-colored eyes, which she got from Ponder.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e4318055	type	CloudCuckooLand
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e4318055	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Land: Confection, of course, as a high Nonsense world. Everywhere is a day's travel away and the people do not have hair or eye colors achievable by physics and genetics.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Whenever someone refers to the groups as "friends", Nadya always says that she isn't a friend, she's a Drowned Girl.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e62bc4bb	type	Take Me to Your Leader
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e62bc4bb	comment	Take Me to Your Leader: The first words out of Rini's mouth when she arrives at the school. Cora and Nadya think she means Eleanor (who is after all the person who is most "in charge" if that term can be applied to the school), but she actually means her mother, as she assumes since Sumi was in charge back home she must be in charge at the school.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e7ecdeb0	type	Weight Woe
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_e7ecdeb0	comment	Weight Woe: Subverted. Cora doesn't hate being fat (at least not anymore), she hates the constant teasing she gets for being fat. The fact that she was adored in her world for being fat, as it made her a better cold-water swimmer (true of many champion swimmers) makes it worse. It's quite a shock to her when she's accepted into the Home with no judgment.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_f020907b	type	Edible Theme Clothing
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_f020907b	comment	Edible Theme Clothing: These are common adornments for residents of Confection, some wear what could be normal clothing as the narration doesn't describe everything but what it does makes clear there're substations of edible ingredients that violate the laws of mundane physics. One person combines this with Pimped-Out Dress, The Queen of Cakes natch, wears cake clothing complete with frosting everywhere.
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Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Beneath the Sugar Sky / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Unlike the Bittersweet Ending of the first book and outright Downer Ending of the second, this is the first in the series to have an unambiguously happy ending. Sumi is resurrected, the timeline is restored, and Cora has found her place in the Home. The only major loss they suffered was Nadya staying in the land of the dead, and the epilogue reveals that this allowed her to return to the Drowned Land, meaning everything turned out well.
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