I’m unsure why Over the Woodward Wall, written under the alias A. Deborah Baker, is not a part of Seanan McGuire‘s Wayward Children series. In all ways that matter it’s pretty much identical to those books… so why did she invent a new alias just for this? To trick people who hated that series into thinking it would be more like Middlegame instead?
Whatever the reason, I’d suggest avoiding it unless you love Wayward Children and/or enjoy paying $12 for less than 200 pages of story.
Michelle Sagara‘s 16th Elantra novel goes in an unexpected direction from where Cast in Wisdom left off. I had thought it would focus on the protagonist learning to read her marks, but it instead centers on semi-completing Bellusdeo’s character arc and reducing the number of directionless Cohort members laying about. Though to be fair it also introduces a new character who looks like they’ll help quite a bit in the ‘deciphering marks’ department.
So it’s… more of the same I suppose? Which, at least as far as I’m concerned, is a good thing.