History Literature / EveryHeartADoorway

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: living in worlds with distinctly different moral systems seems to have made most of the kids slightly...off.

* AbusiveParents: It's strongly implied that a number of the students' parents are not actually very good parents at all. Nancy's parents are the nicest ones we encounter, and they are oblivious to their daughter's asexuality and take away her clothes of choice to force her to wear things that make her look more like their "little girl". [[CloudCuckooLander Sumi]] has childhood pictures of herself looking very sad, still, and meek. Kade's parents misgender him and refuse to take him back unless he presents as female according to their wishes. Jack and Jill's parents are implied to be the worst of all, and almost certainly contributed to one of their children becoming [[spoiler:a monster and a serial killer]] and the other becoming [[spoiler:a sororicidal mad scientist]].

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: By themselves, Jacqueline and Jillian are not odd names. But when you give them to twins and the intended nicknames are Jack and Jill...well.

!!This series contains examples of the following tropes:

''Every Heart a Doorway'' is a novel written by Creator/SeananMcGuire. What happens to children who go through the wardrobe, or fall through the looking glass, and then come back? Well, some of them go to Eleanor West's school, where no one tries to make them be normal or tells them their worlds weren't real, and where they might just find a way back home.

A prequel telling the story of Jack and Jill's time in the Moors, ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones'', was published in 2017. A third book, ''Literature/BeneathTheSugarSky'', was published in 2018.

* HeroicSociopath: All of the kids have had their morality tweaked from what might be considered standard human, but Jack is perhaps the triumphant example, with just one example being her constant insistence that various characters think she might be the murderer doesn't offend her, but that they'd think she would be so ''sloppy'' as to leave a body behind does. Nevertheless, she is definitely on the heroic side of things.

* CloudCuckooLander: Nonsense worlds tend to attract people who have the potential to be this and turn them UpToEleven.

** Eleanor's door has always been open for her. She simply doesn't plan on leaving until she has done everything she can for the girls at her school.

* [[{{Transsexual}} Transgender]]: Kade is a trans boy. The faeries took him because they thought he was a girl - when the Goblin King sees his true self and declares him his ''prince'', he gets kicked back into the real world.

* Really700YearsOld: Eleanor is over a hundred, but looks like she's in her sixties, because going through her door so many times made time react to her differently.

A prequel telling the story of Jack and Jill's time in the Moors, ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones'', was published in 2017. A third book, ''Beneath the Sugar Sky'', was published in 2018.

A prequel telling the story of Jack and Jill's time in the Moors, ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones'', was published in 2017. A third book, ''Beneath the Sugar Sky'', is scheduled for release in 2018 and will focus on Sumi's world.

* BiTheWay: Jack, although her OCD means human contact disgusts her too much for her to actually ever kiss someone.

''Every Heart A Doorway'' is a novel written by Creator/SeananMcGuire. What happens to children who go through the wardrobe, or fall through the looking glass, and then come back? Well, some of them go to Eleanor West's school, where no one tries to make them be normal or tells them their worlds weren't real, and where they might just find a way back home.

A prequel telling the story of Jack and Jill's time in the Moors, ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones'', was published in 2017. A third book, ''Beneath The Sugar Sky'', is scheduled for release in 2018 and will focus on Sumi's world.

A prequel telling the story of Jack and Jill's time in the Moors, ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones'', was published in 2017. A third book, ''Beneath the Sugar Sky'', is scheduled for release in 2018 and will focus on Sumi's world.

Will have a prequel about Jack and Jill called ''Down Among the Sticks and Bones'' in 2017.

* AbusiveParents: It's strongly implied that a number of the students' parents are not actually very good parents at all. Nancy's parents are the nicest ones we encounter, and they are oblivious to their daughter's asexuality and take away her clothes of choice to force her to wear things that make her look more like their "little girl". [[CloudCuckooLander Sumi]] has childhood pictures of herself looking very sad, still, and meek. Kade's parents misgender him and refuse to take him back unless he presents as female according to their wishes. Jack and Jill's parents are implied to be the worst of all, and almost certainly contributed to one of their children becoming [[spoiler:a monster and a serial killer]] and the other becoming [[spoiler:a fratricidal mad scientist]].

--> An Underworld ... [t]hat ... was accessed by walking through a special mirror, {{[[Lunacy under the full moon]]}}.

--> An Underworld ... [t]hat ... was accessed by walking through a special mirror, {{Lunacy}} under the full moon.

--> An Underworld ... [t]hat ... was accessed by walking through a special mirror, {{Lunacy [[under the full moon]]}}.

--> An Underworld ... [t]hat ... was accessed by walking through a special mirror, {{Lunacy under the full moon}}.

--> An Underworld ... [t]hat ... was accessed by walking through a special mirror, [[Lunacy under the full moon]].

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: At one point, Jack gets stabbed. All she does is calmly say she believes she needs some help.

** [[spoiler: Jack had to kill Jill before she could return to the Moors.]]