Come Tumbling Down

Today’s book review is on Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire. It is 206 pages long and is published by Tor books. Cover is a moor with a door in the center and lightning coming down striking the door. As this is the fifth book in the Wayward Children series you do need to have read at least the first two books in order to understand the story. There is mild foul language, no sexuality, and mild violence in this novel. The story is told from third-person close of the different characters. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- 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.

Review-  Another excellent addition in McGuire's Wayward Children series. We pick up sometime after the end of the third novel with everyone back home but still missing the people they lost over the course of the third novel. In Jack's old room a lightning strike happens and a door appears and then Jack and Alexis come through the door seeking help. And off we go into our adventure in the Moors, Jack and Jill's true home. I really enjoyed traveling the Moors in this novel, there is so much that we didn't really get to explore but I enjoyed having the world fleshed out a bit more than it was in Down Among the Sticks and Bones. The only question I still have is why Jill is the way she is. Jack is convinced that Jill believes her to be the villain of Jill's story. But we really have no reason to think that, and Jack never says why she believes that about Jill or herself. It is still an excellent addition to the series and probably my second favorite. I recommend this book and I recommend the entire Wayward Children series. 

I give this book a Five out of Five stores and I get nothing for my review. I borrowed this book from my local library.