A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet #2) by Madeleine L'Engle.

"Essentially, the war between Good and Evil is constant and its up to our intrepid heroes to once again, fight Fallen Angels to try and save the life of the ailing, Charles Wallace. This book was WAY out there and honestly, once the jaded and bitter principal of the grade school, Mr. Jenkins showed up in multiple forms, I just kind of gave up and finished it to see if it would make any more sense but it never really did."

1 Star.

Pros: Proginoskes was a fun bit of snark at times.

Cons: L’Engles literalness, nothing was imaginary but at the same time it was hard to remember what was real and what wasn’t cause you have Proginoskes always transporting Meg five ways from Sunday to different places/I was so overwhelmed by everything going on that whole characters names were lost on me, like the teacher, Blajeny/Meg's CONSTANT questions and the lack of actual action/More than once I wanted to scream at the book that I didn't care if they were on a different plane of dimension, just DO something and stop talking!

Full Review:

Meg comes home from school to see Charles Wallace who claims there are dragons in the garden. Meg decides to humor him and follows him out there, noticing how pale and short of breath he is. He’s muttering about Mitochondria and Farandolae but they don’t see dragons. That night at dinner Meg confronts her mother about how sick Charles Wallace seems. The mother insists that she’s working on it.

Meg goes out to the garden again and there she sees the dragons. But it’s a Cherubim, yes, an Angel, accompanying a teacher Blajeny. Basically, fallen Angels are destroying the universe and it’s up to our intrepid trio to again, battle the powers of good and evil.

This time, there were Echtroi, which were fallen Angels and they were attempting to X all important people, like Charles Wallace from the world. I guess L'Engle couldn't actually use the word kill. Honestly, by the time Blajeny showed up and all the multiple forms of Mr. Jenkins, the grade school principal, was just confusing, way too far fetched, even for me and I was just glad to be done with this book. It was just strange and confusing and Meg's constant questions and lack of action was extremely irritating. I'll read the rest of the series but, I don't have high hopes.

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