Averted with Eleanor and Lundy, although they don't solve the murder they are competent and protect the school to the best of their ability, which gives Nancy and company the opportunity to stop the killer. Adults Are Useless: Played straight with the students' parents, who don't understand them and think they need to be cured.Eleanor believes this may be a factor in what kids get taken: because they are abused into minimizing parts of themselves, the world they need calls all the more to them. Jack and Jill's parents are implied to be the worst of all, and almost certainly contributed to one of their children becoming a monster and a serial killer and the other becoming a sororicidal mad scientist and then Down Among the Sticks and Bones would show them both to be assholes who thought of children as extensions of themselves rather than individuals with their own inner worlds.
Kade's parents misgender him and refuse to take him back unless he presents as female according to their wishes. Sumi has childhood pictures of herself looking very sad, still, and meek. 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".
This book contains examples of the following tropes: Who is it? What do they want? And can they be stopped before it's too late? Nancy is just settling in when a classmate is brutally murdered. There she quickly befriends several other students: Sumi, a madcap girl who went to someplace like Wonderland Kade, the exiled Goblin Prince in Waiting Jack and Jill, twins who went to a horror-movie world called the Moors and Christopher, who became engaged in the world of Día de Muertos. Her parents don't understand why she won't eat a full meal or wear bright colours, so they pack her off to boarding school. When she asked to stay forever, the Lord told her to be sure-and sent her back to Earth. She went through a doorway to the Halls of the Dead.
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. Every Heart a Doorway is the first novel in the Wayward Children series written by Seanan McGuire.
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