Come Tumbling Down
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A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!
Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far
The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning 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.
Again.
The Wayward Children Series
Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway
Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky
Book 4: In an Absent Dream
Book 5: Come Tumbling Down
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Re-Read in 2023 I’m not okay, they deserve to be happy sisters. Another great installment. Don't really know what to say about it, so here are some quotes This time, especially the chapter titles were amazing: ~Where the drowned Gods go~ ~Write your Name in Lightning; Shame the Sky~ ~Wrapped in Lightning, Weeping thunder~ And the only non-spoiler quote I really liked: "Don't you go getting logical rules on my illogical life plans"
I enjoyed this, but not as much as previous books in the series. I think overfamiliarity may be setting in, and it may also be partly to do with this being the first one I listened to as an audiobook. However, I did think the epilogue weakened the ending somewhat and wished I had stopped after the final "regular" chapter.
Just as magical as every atom in these universes is, it is magical to be reminded that even while wandering your life, the memory of reading these novellas only lurking subconsciously, whenever I return to this series it welcomes me anew, enchants me with its originality and bone-deep sadness and spectacular characters. This is so inventive, I swoon each and every time until the thought dulls, only to be reinforced when I read another instalment. Mind-blow-ing! TW: murder, resurrections, a tiny bit of gore (well, it's The Moors, you know), non-consensual body swap, descriptions of OCD (to whose representation I cannot speak), powerful metaphor for disability/chronic illness as it relates to having a certain reservoir of energy available and to being dependent on medicine and machines to stay alive (to which I can speak and I personally appreciated it), selective mutism and signing (and one instance in the beginning where that is not immediately understood as such), brief mention of transphobic parents to one of the ensemble members, more general vibes of xenophobia inherent in the premise of the series
More like 2.5 stars. Disappointing to me. I was so excited for this book bc the Jack and Jill one is my fav from the series (5stars for me) but this one barely had Jill. Every character was annoying to me. The ending made me so angry and was rushed. Jill is clearly the superior more interesting character and yet we barely got to see her when she’s the main antagonist .
Description
A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!
A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!
Amazon's Best of 2020 So Far
The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning 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.
Again.
The Wayward Children Series
Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway
Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones
Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky
Book 4: In an Absent Dream
Book 5: Come Tumbling Down
Book Information
Posts
Re-Read in 2023 I’m not okay, they deserve to be happy sisters. Another great installment. Don't really know what to say about it, so here are some quotes This time, especially the chapter titles were amazing: ~Where the drowned Gods go~ ~Write your Name in Lightning; Shame the Sky~ ~Wrapped in Lightning, Weeping thunder~ And the only non-spoiler quote I really liked: "Don't you go getting logical rules on my illogical life plans"
I enjoyed this, but not as much as previous books in the series. I think overfamiliarity may be setting in, and it may also be partly to do with this being the first one I listened to as an audiobook. However, I did think the epilogue weakened the ending somewhat and wished I had stopped after the final "regular" chapter.
Just as magical as every atom in these universes is, it is magical to be reminded that even while wandering your life, the memory of reading these novellas only lurking subconsciously, whenever I return to this series it welcomes me anew, enchants me with its originality and bone-deep sadness and spectacular characters. This is so inventive, I swoon each and every time until the thought dulls, only to be reinforced when I read another instalment. Mind-blow-ing! TW: murder, resurrections, a tiny bit of gore (well, it's The Moors, you know), non-consensual body swap, descriptions of OCD (to whose representation I cannot speak), powerful metaphor for disability/chronic illness as it relates to having a certain reservoir of energy available and to being dependent on medicine and machines to stay alive (to which I can speak and I personally appreciated it), selective mutism and signing (and one instance in the beginning where that is not immediately understood as such), brief mention of transphobic parents to one of the ensemble members, more general vibes of xenophobia inherent in the premise of the series
More like 2.5 stars. Disappointing to me. I was so excited for this book bc the Jack and Jill one is my fav from the series (5stars for me) but this one barely had Jill. Every character was annoying to me. The ending made me so angry and was rushed. Jill is clearly the superior more interesting character and yet we barely got to see her when she’s the main antagonist .