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Come Tumbling Down
Reader Score
78%
78% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Good
Based on 5 reviews on
Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series
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 Details
- Publisher: Tordotcom
- Publish Date: Jan 7th, 2020
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.60in - 0.70in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780765399311
- Categories: • Fantasy - Contemporary• Fantasy - Dark Fantasy• Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
About the Author
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What people are saying
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Spoilers for Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire! Be warned! "[] smiled, quick and bright as a knife in the darkness" feels like an homage to The Graveyard Book in a beautiful way
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Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"Come Tumbling Down is more proof of the charismatic power Seanan McGuire has long exhibited in the fantasy field; simply put, no one does it better." --Locus
"Grotesque, haunting, lovely." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Praise for Every Heart a Doorway
"With Every Heart a Doorway, McGuire has created her own mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy -- a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics, even as it carves its own precocious space between them." -- NPR
"Seanan McGuire has long been one of the smartest writers around, and with this novella we can easily see that her heart is as big as her brain." --Charlaine Harris
"This is a gorgeous story: sometimes mean, sometimes angry, and always exciting." --Cory Doctorow for BoingBoing
"So mindblowingly good, it hurts." --io9
"McGuire's lyrical prose makes this novella a rich experience." --Library Journal starred review
"One of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read." --V. E. Schwab
"This gothic charmer is a love letter to anyone who's ever felt out of place." -- Publishers Weekly
"Seanan McGuire once again demonstrates her intimate knowledge of the human heart in a powerful fable of loss, yearning and damaged children." -- Paul Cornell, author of London Falling and Witches of Lychford
What people are saying
💜stories, tellers. lds but mostly angry, librarian, D&D, recipes, fitful crafting. Views=mine. she/her 🌱 shambling mound era 🍄
Spoilers for Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire! Be warned! "[] smiled, quick and bright as a knife in the darkness" feels like an homage to The Graveyard Book in a beautiful way