Come Tumbling Down
(Wayward Children series #5)
by Seanan McGuire
Published by Tor Books
on January 7, 2020
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Length: 208 pages
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Synopsis:
The fifth installment in Seanan McGuire's award-winning, bestselling Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones.
When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister--whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice--back to their home on the Moors.
But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome.
Eleanor West's "No Quests" rule is about to be broken.
My Thoughts:
I 'discovered' this series towards the end of 2019 and have read one a month since and have finally caught up with this recent release.
It's a unique series revolving around characters that have had a mysterious door appear to them that took them to another world and then spit them back out again. These special children end up at Eleanor's Home for Wayward Children, a school that allows parents to get difficult children out of their hair and gives said children a place to be themselves until their door accepts them again.
We are introduced to Jack & Jill in Every Heart A Doorway and learn their personal story about how they found their door to the Moors and what happened there in Down Among the Sticks and Bones, which was a dark and macabre but fascinating story.
In Come Tumbling Down, we are caught up in Jack and Jill's story once again and this time their sibling rivalry has gone a step too far. Jack needs help to keep the balance in the world and her friends from school may be the only ones that can help her.
These stories are short but definitely worth it! The author has been inclusive and forward-minded with her characters and themes in well-meaning ways and this installment was no exception.
And now I must go on a search for more information because I do not know if this is the final final book in this series or if we're just waiting for the author to announce if she will continue or not. Let me know if you know! TIA!
Here are my reviews for:
Every Heart A Doorway (#1)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (#2)
Beneath the Sugar Sky (#3)
In An Absent Dream (#4)
Published by Tor Books
on January 7, 2020
Genre: YA, Fantasy
Length: 208 pages
Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | BookDepository
Synopsis:
The fifth installment in Seanan McGuire's award-winning, bestselling Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones.
When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister--whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice--back to their home on the Moors.
But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome.
Eleanor West's "No Quests" rule is about to be broken.
My Thoughts:
I 'discovered' this series towards the end of 2019 and have read one a month since and have finally caught up with this recent release.
It's a unique series revolving around characters that have had a mysterious door appear to them that took them to another world and then spit them back out again. These special children end up at Eleanor's Home for Wayward Children, a school that allows parents to get difficult children out of their hair and gives said children a place to be themselves until their door accepts them again.
We are introduced to Jack & Jill in Every Heart A Doorway and learn their personal story about how they found their door to the Moors and what happened there in Down Among the Sticks and Bones, which was a dark and macabre but fascinating story.
In Come Tumbling Down, we are caught up in Jack and Jill's story once again and this time their sibling rivalry has gone a step too far. Jack needs help to keep the balance in the world and her friends from school may be the only ones that can help her.
These stories are short but definitely worth it! The author has been inclusive and forward-minded with her characters and themes in well-meaning ways and this installment was no exception.
And now I must go on a search for more information because I do not know if this is the final final book in this series or if we're just waiting for the author to announce if she will continue or not. Let me know if you know! TIA!
Here are my reviews for:
Every Heart A Doorway (#1)
Down Among the Sticks and Bones (#2)
Beneath the Sugar Sky (#3)
In An Absent Dream (#4)
