A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle, is a sequel to A Wrinkle in Time. As in A Wrinkle in Time, it is another story of Meg Murry and her family. The story starts as Meg begins to notice that her younger brother, Charles Wallace, has become very weak. Every step he takes costs him much strength. Her mother, as Meg finds out, fears that this might mean there is something wrong with his farandolae and mitochondria. Meg goes even further than her mother, however, to save Charles Wallace’s life.
This book was riveting and exciting, just as a Wrinkle in Time was. Some parts of the book had you scared, disturbed, and made you squirm until you finally found out all the answers.
A Wind in the Door is, I think, more serious than A Wrinkle in Time, and more difficult to follow along with. Some things are still mysteries by the end of the book, where you would expect to find out everything. When you read the book, you get the feeling of not knowing why something is happening, but knowing that it has to happen. You can’t possibly see how the characters will make the right choice, or do the right thing, but you know they will. It’s the sort of book that you must be relieved when you remind yourself that everything has to turn out alright in the end, but then you can’t even be sure everything will turn out all right.
I enjoyed this book because, while it answered a few questions, it still left some unanswered, giving you something to look forward to when you finish it and move on to A Swiftly Tilting Planet. And, also, while the book is fiction, it is science fiction and did teach me a bit. I must admit, however, I liked it more for the “fiction” part of it and less for the “science” part. But overall, it was a great book.