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Come Tumbling Down
- Wayward Children, Book 5
- Narrated by: Seanan McGuire
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
Locus Awards - Nominee - 2021
Hugo Award - 2021
The fifth installment in New York Times best-selling 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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Critic reviews
Locus Awards - Nominee - 2021
Hugo Award - 2021
"[Come Tumbling Down is] Grotesque, haunting, lovely." (Kirkus starred review)
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- Emily
- 11-09-21
Not as good as expected
When I read the blurb of this book, I was really excited because I loved Every Heart A Doorway and Down Among The Sticks And Bones and I was expecting it to be a little like them with Jack and Jill. And honestly it was a god book, but I think maybe I placed too high an expectation on it going in because it didn't quite hit what I was expecting.
I love Kade and Christopher. I honestly think they're the best characters in the series (and Nancy, I really liked Nancy) and I just want them to be happy. It feels like the books are moving away from Eleanor and onto Kade as the leader and I'm pretty ambivalent about it because I don't have a particular attachment to Eleanor.
But the books also feel like they're starting to focus on Cora a lot, and I know the next book to come out that progresses the plot of the series is about Cora and I really don't like her as a character. She feels incredibly flat to me because all that she seems to think about or how everybody looks at her is just about weight and her appearance. Numerous times, its thought by the other characters that its surprising that she's as light on her feet as she is considering her body mass and this has never been a thing for the other characters in previous books so I don't know why it feels like Cora's thought patterns (because she only ever seems to think about her weight and everything relating) are suddenly leaking across to the rest of the characters. Shes also a pretty negative character in general so I wonder if she'll end up attending the sister school where the kids who want to forget their worlds go.
But in general, I want the school to have more "dark world" kids because Christopher is the only one left and I'm not a great fan of the nonsense worlds.
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- Sam
- 27-02-20
love
I loved this almost as much as the first book, I liked it more than the second cause jill wasnt in this. I wish the narrator for the first book wouldve narrated it cause her voice for kade is so good but the author is good as well! I liked how this had a (almost) conclusive ending to the story of jack and jill.
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- J. LoVecchio
- 09-01-20
amazing
loved this so much. Seanan does a great job narrating and I will never get sick of the wayward children. best adventures!!
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