Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children.
This is the story of what happened first…
Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.
Jillian was her father's perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.
They were five when they learned that grown-ups can't be trusted.
They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.
From Goodreads:
A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world.
When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can't let Reality get in the way of her quest – not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)
If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn't have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests...
A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.
Warning: May contain nuts.
A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway
This is the story of a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.
When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.
For anyone . . .
From Goodreads:
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.
Again.
My Review:
These books were so great to read! I just devoured them, the world is so interesting, and I can't wait to explore some other settings here in the future! We've seen some of the worlds in the backstories and the travels, but there's still so many to go to!
Each of these books brought something to to the table. Sticks and Bones gave us Jack and Jill's backstory, which is kinda important, given the events of book 1. Sugar Sky gave us a quest, and it was great to go see all those worlds, and it was interesting to see what someone raised in a Nonsense world thought logic would be like. Absent Dream kinda hurt, given that it was Lundy's story, and given that we know what happened to her, it was waiting for the first shoe to drop, knowing when the 2nd one will. Come Tumbling Down, we got to see The Moor's from an outsider's perspective, and yeah, it was pretty dark!
Throughout these books, we learned more about the worlds, how they could classify as Nonsense but have an underpinning of logic, and other little tidbits that help make sense of the rules that govern everything. Another bit was that there are worlds that you go do, and worlds that you leave, and the doors mainly go in that direction. Pretty interesting!
I read an interview that Seanan McGuire gave, saying that Tor approached her with a new payment model, and what she heard was, we won't pay you till this book is sold, so you can do whatever you want, and this series is what came of that. I'm so glad that happened, the world should have this amazing series!
The pattern for the stories thus far is, present, backstory, repeat. If this pattern continues, book 6 will be a backstory. We have a tentative title, and hoof and horn doesn't sound like Mariposa or Prism, which is making me wonder if it could be Eleanor's backstory! We don't know what her world was like, besides being a Nonsense one with a bit of a twist. So it could be hers, I just don't know and I can't wait to find out!
Loved these books so much, and I can't wait to see where we go from here!
Author: Seanan McGuire
Series: Wayward Children #2, 3, 4, 5
Read: January 4th, 4th, 4th, 4th, 2019
Source: Ebook.bike, NetGalley
Reason Why: Love her writing, they sounded good and I enjoyed the first book, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2020 Books!
Publisher: Tor.com
Published: June 13th 2017, January 9th 2018, January 8th 2019, January 7th 2020
Down Among the Sticks and Bones:
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
Beneath the the Sugar Sky:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
In An Absent Dream:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
Come Tumbling Down:
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| 5/5 Hearts |
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| 5/5 Books |
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| 5/5 Stars |
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