Come Tumbling Down
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Come Tumbling Down
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Narrated by:
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Seanan McGuire
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By:
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Seanan McGuire
About this listen
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
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Critic reviews
"[Come Tumbling Down is] Grotesque, haunting, lovely." — Kirkus (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
"One of the most extraordinary stories I've ever read." —V. E. Schwab
"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
"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
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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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