"Soon, an ancient prophecy leads them into battle..." Um...soon being a relative term here, because I got a third of the way in and nothing had happened. Good god. I tried so hard to finish this book, but reading for pleasure should not take this much effort. The five siblings fall through the window pretty early on in the book, and then.........nada. No plot development, no answers to wtf is going on, hell, not even really any character development. I couldn't do it. I hate not finishing books, but good lord. There are too many fantastic books in the world to slog through one that drags as much as this one did.

I think this would have worked better broken up into smaller volumes. It's really too long, and drags especially in the third section, where the children are in stasis in a monastery/school setting with no forward motion to the plot for many chapters. I'm also not sure I like the use of facial deformities tied to level of education as an element of fantasy horror. I was interested in the sibling dynamics for the first two sections of the book, but in the third section I lost interest because of how much the plot had slowed.

Kinda reminded me of The Chronicles of Narnia~
“Blue Window” is a novel that transports you out of reality and into a world where things aren’t as they seem.
I loved the different POVs !I loved the five siblings and their very realistic interactions with each other.
“Blue Window” is definitely a page turner!!
I cant wait to read more from this author~

I picked up Blue Window on cover alone. The blue cover with the five silhouettes falling like Alice in Wonderland.
In a way, I wasn't wrong. The book is about five siblings on the longest night of the year. They fall through a window into an alternate dimension where scary in the normal and everything is kind of like an illusion, but no one can see the truth at first.
The book strikes me as juvenile fiction and I like it. I probably would have LOVED this book when I was 12. The way the characters encounter their personal struggles and discover their strengths. It's something that's hard to accomplish in younger age books.
At 30, I still enjoyed it quite a bit. The adventure felt pretty original and the characters' voices were great. I especially enjoyed the last third of the book. The epic fight between legit scholars and a man who claimed himself "Genius".
There were times the book dragged, but they were thankfully far and few between the sequences of action. Enjoyed it and would recommend to school age kids.

This novel is lyrical and free-flowing from the very start, it makes the 500+ pages flow quickly and makes you ebb and flow like the tides of the sea.
This novel for me, wasn't something I would usually read, but I know this will be extremely popular with a lot of readers.

Blue Window absolutely pays homage to C S Lewis with a very Narnia feel. There are also some fairy tale reflections in the narrative which I enjoyed. Personally not a favourite, I feel as though the story could have been told in much fewer pages, but overall magic and whimsy reigns!

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In what reminded me of The Chronicles of Narnia with shades of Coraline, “Blue Window” is a novel that transports you out of reality and into a world where things aren’t as they seem.

Told in a collection of alternating point of view, shared between the siblings in a way that almost represents the character who has assumed responsibility for the rest after the previous member fails, forgets, or is cast out further strengthens the descent into the world they’ve found themselves trapped in and the chance of returning home dwindling with new obstacle thrown their way.

As the oldest in my family it was interesting to see that shared responsibility for the younger ones and how despite that desire to return you are still a child yourself and not all things can be fixed with wishful thinking, especially when an illusion, blind faith in the wrong person and perhaps a mix of both can keep you in the dark.

This book has all the usual tropes for the genre and handles them pretty well but overall I found myself getting distracted and having to read parts over again or force myself to focus, I’m not sure if that had to do with the length itself which is very long for a book of this nature, or if it was because it is something that has been done before so while it had moments with its own twists and sparks of originality it followed the typical formula with no real surprises to keep me fully interested.

**thank you to netgalley for providing an arc in exchange for a fair and honest review**