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Come Tumbling Down

(Wayward Children #5)

Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)

4.03 · Rating details · 6,421 ratings · 1,553 reviews

The fifth installment in Seanan McGuire's award-winning, best-selling 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 ...more

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Jan 28, 2020 Lala BooksandLala rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Yessssss

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Jan 05, 2020 Emily (Books with Emily Fox) rated it liked it · review of another edition

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(3.5) Let's state the obvious: The fourth book was the best one and nothing will ever compare...

Now. I've been having mixed feelings about this series. I enjoy the ideas, the writing, how diverse the characters are but I always feel like "something is missing". Probably because the books are so short so there's a lot of "And after they saved..." aka we miss on all the fun adventures.

This book was different since we do get to see what happens when we go back to The Moors. If you enjoyed Jack and ...more

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May 05, 2019 Warda marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Can this series never end?
Please and thank you.

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Mar 02, 2020 Maria rated it really liked it · review of another edition

3.7/5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

New things are the best kind of magic there is.

“New things are the best kind of magic there is.”

This was a nice addition to the Wayward Children universe. But it felt somewhat... repetitive to me? Like we have seen some of these things before? Let me explain.

These are 200 page books, more like novellas. They explore very unique worlds from multiple people's perspectives. We have had an entire book of one world... why have another one about that same world that can't offer us anything extremely fresh? When there are so many more characters, and new ones added all the time, that we can explore? Don't get me wrong, the book itself was really good but it wasn't refreshing. This series works best when it gives us new perspectives and worlds and characters and themes and just all around... new content. And yes, I know my second favorite book from this series is the second one, with Jack and Jill and the Moors, but I didn't need more of them so soon. Maybe it's because I binged these books in three days? Maybe I would have felt differently had I waited a year to read the next? You always consume content differently when binging. It happens with shows and movie series and all that jazz. I can't know what I would feel like if I traditionally waited for this book to come out. I just wanted to explore more lore and then have the matter that this book talks about be resolved later on. Basically, have more past tense personal stories.

Let's forget the rant and talk about the book itself. It was good man. It was really good. I couldn't expect anything else from this series. The writing and the wackiness, it's all there. Honestly, these books are getting weirder and weirder and I'm here for it But my problem with the general foundation of this book still stands.

Overall, ending this long haul of reviews, I just want to tell you to pick this series up. It's not a silly middle grade series about kids. I'm not saying kids series are silly but they are not for some people. I also thought that too, because of the size of the books and their subject matter. Yes, and maybe the marketing didn't help I guess. It seems like middle grade, but it's not. There is the world "fuck" multiple times in them. Yes. When I first saw that word in that book I was relieved. I don't like middle grade a lot haha. Anyway, read this series, it's short and amazing and I'll see you next time K BYE! ...more

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Feb 12, 2018 Melanie marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: arc, novellas-and-short-stories, fantasy, read-in-2020

ARC provided by Tor in exchange for an honest review.

1.) Every Heart a Doorway ★★★★★
2.) Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★★★
3.) Beneath the Sugar Sky ★★★★★
4.) In an Absent Dream ★★★★★

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Jan 07, 2020 Chelsea (chelseadolling reads) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This is probably my favorite addition to the series since Down Among the Sticks and Bones and my heart is SO FULL. I love these characters so much and it was especially gratifying to spend more time with Jack and the gang from the first book. I now DESPERATELY need Christopher's story and I really, really hope that his is next to come!

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Feb 10, 2020 Elena May rated it liked it · review of another edition

Oh, lookie, were back at the Moors! Maybe Im biased because of the whole vampire business, but the Moors have been my favorite of all the portal worlds in this series. Not that Id live there! Oh no, Im perfectly happy observing them from the safety of my couch.

Well, to be honest, this book is not really about the Moors. We dont arrive there until the 40% mark, and no vampires appear until the 85% mark, only to disappear a few pages after. But the book is not really about that. Its about Jack ...more

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Nov 02, 2019 Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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The Wayward Children books have turned into such a great series ... and here's #5! A strong 4 stars. Full review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Eleanor Wests Home for Wayward Children was an island of misfit toys, a place to put the unfinished stories and the broken wanderers who could butcher a deer and string a bow but no longer remembered what to do with indoor plumbing. It was also, more importantly, a holding pen for heroes. Whatever they might have become when theyd been cast out of

The Wayward Children books have turned into such a great series ... and here's #5! A strong 4 stars. Full review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children was an island of misfit toys, a place to put the unfinished stories and the broken wanderers who could butcher a deer and string a bow but no longer remembered what to do with indoor plumbing. It was also, more importantly, a holding pen for heroes. Whatever they might have become when they’d been cast out of their chosen homes, they’d been heroes once, each in their own ways. And they did not forget.

Come Tumbling Down, the fifth installment in Seanan McGuire’s WAYWARD CHILDREN YA fantasy series, returns to the conflicted relationship between twins Jack (Jacqueline) and Jill Wolcott, in a some-months-later sequel to where we left them at the end of Every Heart a Doorway. (Down Among the Sticks and Bones is a prequel that tells their story in much more detail, though it’s the second book published in the series.) To recap — spoiler alert for the first and second books here — as children Jack and Jill had found their way to a portal world called the Moors, where Jack was raised by a … if not mad, at least highly peculiar … scientist, and Jill was raised by a master vampire to be his daughter and heir, before they returned to our world and spent some time turning the Home for Wayward Children upside down. When they returned to the Moors at the end of Every Heart a Doorway, Jill was dead at Jack’s hand, but Jack was confident that she could resurrect her sister once they returned to the Moors and, perhaps more important, that because Jill had died and been brought back to life, she would no longer be able to be turned into a vampire.

But Jill is not in the least repentant of her lethal lifestyle, and she and her adoptive vampire father have thought of an ingenious way to get around this limitation. What she’s now done is beyond the pale — not only is it ruining Jack’s life, pushing her to the edge of a mental breakdown, but it’s likely to lead to an imbalance of power and deadly warfare in the Moors world. So Jack, with her girlfriend Alexis, returns to the Wayward Children home to get help from her old friends. Did Eleanor say “no quests”? Oh well!

Come Tumbling Down didn’t quite reach the heights of my favorite books in the series, Down Among the Sticks and Bones and In an Absent Dream, but it comes quite close. McGuire does a great job examining Jack and Jill’s deeply troubled hearts. Jack, brilliant but burdened with OCD, has found joy in the mad scientist lifestyle, at least until the most recent troubles. She calls herself a monster, and in some ways that’s true, but she’s more or less a good-hearted person, if obsessive and demanding. Jill, though, is on a whole different level.

Jill had always been the more dangerous, less predictable Wolcott, for all that she was the one who dressed in pastel colors and lace and sometimes remembered that people liked it when you smiled. Something about the way she’d wrapped her horror movie heart in ribbons and bows had reminded him of a corpse that hadn’t been properly embalmed, like she was pretty on the outside and rotten on the inside. Terrifying and subtly wrong.

Joining Jack on her quest to set things right again in Jack’s life and in the Moors world are several familiar faces, including Kade (the one-time goblin prince), Christopher (who longs for the magical skeleton world of Mariposa), Cora (the former mermaid with the blue-green hair) and Sumi. They all bring their unique characters and talents to the story. The most delightful was Sumi, whose flighty behavior and off-the-wall comments conceal a sharp mind. She calls the crimson moon in the Moors “the sugared cherry on the biggest murder sundae in the whole world” and is serenely confident that one day she’ll find her way back to the world called Confection, where the gummy worms will eat her body when she dies.

Come Tumbling Down is a quest type of adventure novel, mixing together friendship and horror. It’s lifted above the norm by the quirkiness of the characters, by the tragedy of the broken relationship between twin sisters Jack and Jill, and by Seanan McGuire’s insightful commentary. She muses on what would have happened if Jack had become the vampire’s protégé rather than Jill, and the ruthless business tycoon Sumi would have become if she hadn’t found the door to Confection as a young girl. And she shows us how wayward children can be heroes. Sometimes, even, the monsters are the heroes.

I received a free ebook for review from the publisher and NetGalley. Thanks so much!

Initial post: I HAVE THE ARC! *does happy dance* *throws confetti in air* Update: And I read the whole thing in one evening. #noregrets ...more

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Jan 07, 2020 destiny ♡⚔♡ [howling libraries] rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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#1 Every Heart a Doorway ★★★★★
#2 Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★★★
#3 Beneath the Sugar Sky ★★★★★
#4 In An Absent Dream ★★★★★
#5 Come Tumbling Down ★★★★★

Hope is a vicious beast. It sinks in its claws and it doesn't let go.

I've come to realize that I seem to start every Wayward Children review the same way: by gushing about how, no matter how much I think I already adore Seanan, this latest book has made me love her even more. Well, I'm sorry to be repetitive, but I'm really not sorry at all, because yet again, this series has wholly blown me away. In fact, I think Come Tumbling Down may just be my favorite yet.

The gates slammed shut behind them with remarkable speed, and everything was quiet, and Christopher knew, with absolute certainty, that not all of them were going to make it home.

Come Tumbling Down takes us back to the world of The Moors, which is probably my very favorite world in all of the doors; with its terrifying beasties and strange scales of balance between them, coupled with its oceanic dark gods and the idea of death as a temporary thing, nothing in this series has made my little horror-loving heart quite so proud. There's an eerie vibe to the atmosphere in this installment that is never scary but always borderline unsettling in the most delightful ways.

Whatever they might have become when they'd been cast out of their chosen homes, they'd been heroes once, each in their own ways. And they did not forget.

Of course, if all we talked about was my love for The Moors, it would do a tremendous disservice to the pure reverence I feel for Seanan's masterful character-building. The poor lost souls in this series are, as far as I'm concerned, an absolute gift to the world, in this installment most of all. The cast is as effortlessly and wondrously diverse as usual, between Jack's OCD (own-voices rep, at that), the precious sapphic representation, not one but two gorgeous and brilliant fat girls, and more. As usual, it's all approached with such genuine care and thought that it's impossible to miss how much Seanan wants readers to see themselves in her story, and as a reader who saw myself in many of these characters, I'm endlessly grateful for it.

Jack laughed. It wasn't a happy sound, not exactly; it was the sound of someone clinging to the last vestiges of sanity and stability with all their might. It was the sound of slipping.

Beyond waxing on for ages about how much I needed and loved and cherished and adored every moment of this adventure, this time with these characters in this fantastic and twisted world, and telling you that Seanan's narrative voice is my absolute favorite in the world... I'm not sure there's much more I can say here without branching out into murky, spoiler-filled territories. Instead, I'll tell you that I think this series holds everything magical about the world of SFF stories, and that time you spend in Seanan's worlds is never time poorly spent, and that if there were any single series I could convince any of my friends and followers to pick up, it would be this one. I'm so ecstatic that there are at least 3 more novellas on the way, and I truly hope they sell well enough that Tor.com will allow this series to go on much longer, because I can't imagine ever getting tired of the Wayward Children.

All quotes come from an advance copy and may not match the final release. Thank you so much to Tor.com for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review! ...more

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Mar 06, 2018 ♠ TABI ♠ marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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The pattern has stayed and this is a direct sequel to Beneath the Sugar Sky which means I GET MORE KADE IN MY LIFE OKAY!!!

also this just says "the fifth installment" not the LAST installment so we have hope for more stories

AND HELLO LOVELY COVER

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Jan 25, 2020 Emily May rated it liked it · review of another edition

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I don't even have enough to say to really write a review about this book. It just felt so... unnecessary? It wasn't bad, exactly, and McGuire's writing was as gorgeous as it always is, it's just... I have rated every previous book in this series five stars, but I felt like I didnt need this one. I loved Jack and Jill so much in Down Among the Sticks and Bones but it felt unnecessary to return to them in this book. It was almost like a rehash; a filler. Especially after the high In an Absent ...more

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Mar 21, 2020 Jenna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I'm giving this 5 stars because it's an excellent series and the only book I could concentrate on the last several days (tried a few). I won't give it less because it's not Seanan McGuire's fault I don't remember what the fuck I just read. Her writing and imagination are as brilliant as ever, my brain just isn't absorbing much at the moment, something I'm sure a lot of you can relate to.

I'll re-read this another time when I can fully enjoy it. I love these characters and this storyline.

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Jan 10, 2020 Hamad rated it liked it · review of another edition

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New things are the best kind of magic there is.

Every Heart a Doorway ★★★ 1/2
Down Among the Sticks and Bones ★★★ 3/4
Beneath the Sugar Sky ★★★★
In an Absent Dream ★★★★
Come Tumbling Down ★★★ 1/2

I think the above quote sums my feelings perfectly! I like this series because it kept bringing new things with each book and it felt magical. Unfortunately, the magic is beginning to dwindle and that could be a bad sign!

I had some expectations for this one ...more

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Jan 09, 2020 Katherine Elizabeth rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: below-average, 2-stars, owned, young-adult, fiction, fantasy, reviewed

This was a tough book to rate. One moment I was like, yeah! Im really enjoying this! Then the next, I was sorely disinterested, even though a lot was going on. There was a lot of back and forth until, ultimately, it stayed around the 2-star range.

This is the fifth installment in the Wayward Children series, and if it continues to book six, this will probably be my last. The previous book also wasnt a favorite of mine, but because the second book in this series was so good Ive pushed forward with ...more

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Dec 30, 2018 Rachael Marie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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THIS SERIES JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER & BETTER!

CW for Body Dysmorphia, OCD, blood & gore.

Watch my Wrap-up Review here: https://youtu.be/2rHvznVcqt4

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Dec 21, 2019 Celeste rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, novella, portal-fantasy

I received a copy of this book from the publisher (Tor.com) in exchange for an honest review.

Seanan McGuires Wayward Children novellas have quickly become one of my yearly highlights. I love having them to look forward to. Ive been eagerly anticipating Come Tumbling Down since I read the final page of In An Absent Dream this past January. While I didnt adore it as much as I have some of the previous installments, Come Tumbling Down is a fast-paced return adventure spanning two of McGuires worlds I received a copy of this book from the publisher (Tor.com) in exchange for an honest review.

Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children novellas have quickly become one of my yearly highlights. I love having them to look forward to. I’ve been eagerly anticipating Come Tumbling Down since I read the final page of In An Absent Dream this past January. While I didn’t adore it as much as I have some of the previous installments, Come Tumbling Down is a fast-paced return adventure spanning two of McGuire’s worlds that I’ve come to love in recent years. It was an action-packed read that had me flying through its pages in one sitting.

“…the fact that I’ve been damaged doesn’t make me broken…”

I strongly suggest rereading not only Every Heart A Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones before picking up this book, but Beneath the Sugar Sky as well, as characters introduced in that book are key characters in Come Tumbling Down. Due to the fact that so much of this ensemble is comprised of returning characters, some of whom have departed the worlds of the living only to return again, I don’t really feel like I can discuss characters without inadvertently spoiling preceding volumes of the series. So instead, I’ll talk about the worlds.

“A tool is only a weapon when it’s held by people who want to use it the wrong way.”

We venture to two main locales here: our world, via Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, which has been the hub shared by all of the stories; and the Moors, the land found by Jack and Jill in the novella dedicated to their adventure, Down Among the Sticks and Bones. We get to see more of this brutally beautiful world that is populated by monsters. Those monsters include those who find their doors in our world and stumble into the Moors, and find themselves finally at home. While Down Among the Sticks and Bones focused mainly on the land grudgingly shared between the vampiric Master and the mad scientist Dr. Bleak, we get to explore more of the Moors in Come Tumbling Down. We are shown the realm of the Drowned Gods, and spend some time in the village populated by their worshippers, as well as meeting the priests and acolytes who live lives consumed by the task of worshiping their cruel deities. We also hear a bit more about the realms of goblins and werewolves and others on the Moors.

“The world doesn’t stop spinning because you’re sad, and that’s good; if it did, people would go around breaking hearts like they were sheets of maple sugar, just to keep the world exactly where it is…We can be sad and we can be hurt and we can even be killed, but the world keeps turning, and the things we’re supposed to do keep needing to be done.”

What I found the most fascinating was a breakdown of how each monster is balanced by another in their realm. For instance, every vampiric Master or Mistress is balanced in power by a resident Mad Scientist, and if that balance is broken then the entirety of the Moors is in danger of consuming itself. The thought of maintaining balance being such a crucial piece of the puzzle that is this realm of monsters is kind of baffling. Seriously, can you imagine creatures who inspired the horror stories of our world, Dracula and Victor Frankenstein and the Wolfman and Chulthu, all carefully keeping a series of checks and balances so they don’t overextend their malice and wreck their home? The Moon keeps all of them under her watchful, imposing eye, and ensures that none rise above their place without being pulled back down. We also learn what makes a monster, and what makes a hero, and how closely the two can resemble one another to someone on the other side of things.

“Sometimes, after all, that’s what must be said to make a hero: the willingness to keep running even after it becomes clear that the entire exercise is doomed to failure. Sometimes heroism is pressing on when the ending is already preordained.”

Come Tumbling Down, like Beneath the Sugar Sky, is more of an adventure narrative than the other three novellas published thus far in the series. While there is character development and loads of depth regarding identity and struggles with conditions that are often written off by those who don’t suffer from them, these tales of adventure don’t have as much room for beautiful, nearly poetic prose as their slower-paced counterparts. The writing is still absolutely lovely and often profound, but it didn’t resonate quite as strongly with me as Every Heart A Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, and In An Absent Dream. That’s an incredibly subjective opinion, I know, but it’s what’s true for me.

“No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone they’re not because it’s easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it.”

As always, the idea of doors leading misfit children to realms that are their true homes, despite not being the world of their birth, is endlessly enchanting. Coming to understand why beautiful blond twin girls could call a world populated by monsters “home,” because they themselves are monstrous on the inside, is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to insights gained into their children throughout the course of the series. McGuire has also excelled in not only ensuring representation for those who feel like they don’t fit in, but in presenting an incredibly varied cast who demonstrate a plethora of both identities and conditions without allowing those things to be all that defines them. Finding yourself and your place are the most important quests any person can undertake, and that is shown on such a large scale in the Wayward Children novellas. The series is beautifully done, and I will be eagerly awaiting the sixth installment.

All quotations were taken from an uncorrected proof and are subject to change upon publication.

You can find this review and more at Novel Notions. ...more

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Jan 07, 2020 Bradley rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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I had to jump on this and devour it as soon as possible. I'm sure you other fans of Seanan will understand.

Remember Jack and Jill from Every Heart and Sticks and Bones? This absolutely continues that plotline, and if you wanted to know the fate of that ****ing ***ch Jill after her sister brought her back to life... AGAIN, then you probably shouldn't wait, either.

What a fun, cold slab of fun this was. :) Want a little lightning? I'm sure it will be willing to rouse you.

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Jan 10, 2020 amy ☂︎ rated it liked it · review of another edition

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i relate to jack a lot in this book because i too am clinging to the last vestiges of sanity most of the time

rating: ★★★½

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Jan 06, 2020 Anna Luce rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: lukewarm-reads, disappointing-reads, netgalley, novellas-and-short-stories, 2020-reviews

★★★✰✰ 3 stars

Although occasionally entertaining, Come Tumbling Down struck me as a rather unnecessary and insubstantial addition to the Wayward Children series.

Once a wayward child, always a wayward child.

Don't get me wrong: Seanan McGuire's writing style is as lush as ever. Her prose, with its use rhythm and repetition, echoes that of fairy-tale, lending a certain allure to her narrative. As with the previous instalments McGuire weaves real issues into her fantastical setting (such as body ...more

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Mar 06, 2020 Philip rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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5ish stars.

There are some things you can count on year after year. Death, taxes, and the Patriots making it to the playoffs no matter how hard you wish they wouldn't. Fortunately, since 2016, there's something inevitable to actually look forward to. These touching, adventurous, bizarre little books have come like clockwork for five years now, with no sign of stopping.

This is the first book in the series that feels like a proper Adventure (breaking the school rule of No Quests), despite book #3 ...more

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Jan 10, 2020 April (Aprilius Maximus) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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1.) Every Heart A Doorway ★★★★
2.) Down Among The Sticks and Bones ★★★★.5
3.) Beneath The Sugar Sky ★★★★.5
4.) In An Absent Dream ★★★.5
5.) Come Tumbling Down ★★★★

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No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone theyre not because its easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it.

representation: f/f relationship, trans rep, fat rep, Asian rep (Japanese if I remember correctly?), OCD rep.

[trigger warnings are listed at the bottom ...more

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Jan 11, 2020 Shaun Hutchinson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Loved.

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Jan 07, 2020 Drewthereader20 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Such a quick and easy read. Love the audiobooks for this one. Not my favorite in the series but still really good. If that make sense!(:

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Jan 10, 2020 may ❀ rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, 200-pgs, binged, series, buddy-read, meh, bye, yawn

i'm not mad, i'm just disappointed,,,,,,,,and for some reason, that's so much worse :c

i absolutely adore this series of whimsical, peculiar worlds, the land of moors, confection, and even christopher's world of skeleton's sounds oddly intriguing.

so when i heard we were revisiting the Moors and we were going to get more exploration of Jack's character, i was SO EXCITED to read this book (not to mention, the cover??? glorious)

but then I READ IT and so much of the book felt underwhelming and ...more

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Feb 18, 2020 Sara rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Dare I say this is my new favourite in the series...?

I think this is the first in the Wayward Children series that requires the reader to have read at least books 1, 2 and 3 as it follows twins Jack and Jill and their world of the Moors. I felt the world building is expanded on a lot in this instalment, and we get a bit more information of how the Moors operates, which I appreciated. Its atmospheric and creepy and dark.

I will say Im unsure how I feel about Jack. Shes not a particularly likeable ...more

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Sep 14, 2019 Boston rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: f-f, read-2019

Thank you to the publisher who sent me an arc in exchange for an honest review.

Honestly Im a little sad that I didnt enjoy this as much as the other books. I think my preference leans more toward discovering all the new worlds rather than returning to old ones with the focus on the plot rather than the beautiful descriptions (tldr: if you liked beneath the sugar sky youll really like this one) Overall, I still really enjoyed this book and will happily be adding it to my collection come January. ...more

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May 16, 2018 Marisa marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Son of a- 2020???
description

I need a damn time machine...

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Jan 18, 2020 Justine rated it liked it · review of another edition

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3.5 stars

Come Tumbling Down features the final part of the story of Jack and Jill Wolcott, characters who were introduced in Every Heart a Doorway, and who starred in Down Among the Sticks and Bones (still my favourite in the Wayward Children series).

The writing in this installment was very good, and the story had a good start with lots potential, but I felt it just kind of ended too quickly given all the build up both here and over the arc of the series. I expected there to be some actual ...more

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Jan 11, 2020 Schizanthus Nerd rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Once a wayward child, always a wayward child.

Ive been waiting as patiently as possible for my next quest -

No quests.

Right. So Ive been counting the days until I was finally able to spend more quality time with my fellow Waywards and today we went to the Moors! Whos we? I travelled with the girl with the perpetual sugar buzz, the Goblin Prince in Waiting, the girl with the ocean in her hair, a mad scientist, the boy with the bone flute and the girl with the lightning-powered heart.

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Jan 08, 2020 Fiona rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: short-n-sweet, found-family, alternative-earth

Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children was an island of misfit toys, a place to put the unfinished stories and the broken wanderers who could butcher a deer and string a bow but no longer remembered what to do with indoor plumbing. It was also, more importantly, a holding pen for heroes. Whatever they might have become,when they'd been cast out of their chosen homes, they'd been heroes once, each in their own ways. And they did not forget.

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Hi! I'm Seanan McGuire, author of the Toby Daye series (Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Late Eclipses), as well as a lot of other things. I'm also Mira Grant (www.miragrant.com), author of Feed and Deadline.

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“The world doesn't stop spinning because you're sad, and that's good; if it did, people would go around breaking hearts like they were sheets of maple sugar, just to keep the world exactly where it is. They'd make it out like it was a good thing, a few crying children in exchange for a peace that never falters or fades. We can be sad and we can be hurt and we can even be killed, but the world keeps turning, and the things we're supposed to do keep needing to be done.” — 10 likes

“People always mean something. Sometimes what they mean is 'you can't be trusted to remember to be kind', and then I want to bury them up to their necks in marshmallow fluff, so they'll remember how I choose kindness every single day” — 5 likes

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