Come Tumbling Down | 
so-soAnother Jack & Jill story - not my favourite characters at all, nor Lundy or the sugary girls π
Some witty one liners though.
Read for The Wayward Children readathon and a reading challenge.
3.75/5
I also read Juice Like Wounds online:
A harrowing fable type story.
Read for The Wayward Children readathon
so-soAnother Jack & Jill story - not my favourite characters at all, nor Lundy or the sugary girls π
Some witty one liners though.
Read for The Wayward Children readathon and a reading challenge.
3.75/5
pickGosh, I love this series!
Too bad Jack hates hugs because she really needs one. Thank goodness she has Alexis.
so-soWell-tied loose end. I freely admit I find the Moors more depressing than fantastical - but of all the times we've encountered the characters Jack and Jill, this is definitely my favourite. I appreciate the quest books that allow various classmates to go on adventures, but this one kind of felt more like a group tagging along to witness the tragedy of Jack's relationship with her sister reframed as the result of her confirmed choices. Yay?
pickI love anything involving Jack & Jill but I'm getting a bit frustrated with the repetitive descriptions. We know these characters, let's move their story along. Heavy on YA body positivity & feeling comfortable in your own skin, quite literally. I'll keep going because I NEED a book about Christopher and Mariposa!!!
This also feels a little bit like parenting a teenager... π
This is the 5th book in the Wayward Children series and I loved it, maybe even more than some previous ones. Another (mostly) Jack and (some) Jill adventure in the Moors, this time with a lot more development of this strange world.
It was my 3rd #Roll100 pick for May and one more step in #PromptMaze v2 which is really great: I keep adding titles and not finding the exit (here is a not so clear map of my progress).
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pickThis one was my favorite so far. Since my library doesn‘t have number 6 in the series yet, I‘ll start something else.
pickThis one was my favorite so far. Since my library doesn‘t have number 6 in the series yet, I‘ll start something else.
I guess I‘m done mulling next month‘s list. Such hard decisions!π€ͺ
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pickAnother good entry to the series where the children try to right the rift between Jack and Jill.
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pickWonderfully dark, creepy, and full of adventure. The students at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children are breaking the "no quests" rule once again. Another foray into Jack and Jill's world of the Moors, as the siblings battle for dominance β‘
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I love Sumi π
The fifth installment in The Wayward Children series. We find out what happened to Jack after she left the home. I enjoyed this one especially since it had an ensemble cast with new and old faces.
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pickFifth in McGuire's Wayward Children series featuring refugee children from portal fantasy worlds. I'm enjoying this series, and this entry was a good one.
pickI love how each book adds to the inclusive cast of characters. Wayward Children encompasses people from all walks of life. And as you immerse yourself in this fantastical series, you also see how the various worlds accept people for who they are. The ties of friendship or rivalry that bind all these children together are so craftily written. #fantasy
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pickSeanan McGuire's writing always feels like coming home to me. I love these characters, and I love the multiverse building in this series. It was great fun to go back to The Moors, and I loved that several characters that don't belong in The Moors got to visit, albeit to save that particular world. This series just makes me happy
pick5/5 for this one! I was so happy to see Jack again. I also loved going back to the Moors. It‘s so dark and creepy! It was also great to see some of the other characters I know and love. I cannot wait to read the next one.
pickJack Wolcott is such a fascinating character! Down Among the Sticks and Bones was the first Wayward Children book I read, and I thoroughly enjoyed this return to the Moors.
12 hours down! Dipping my toe back into the Wayward Children series today. So excited Jack and Jill are back!! #24in48
pickBack to The Moors in this installment. Jack is absolutely my favorite character in the series, but this was not the best book. I'm still along for the ride, though. I know the next book comes out soon, but I may not get to it for a bit.
pickI struggled a little with a book hangover from the preceding book in the Wayward Children Series, but how could I resist Jack and Kade and Sumi and Christopher and Cora for long? It‘s back to the Moors and on another quest this time, and I was down for the ride. Now I‘m not ready to leave! BUT I did snag an advance for the newest so that‘s my next destination! Anyone read any other McGuire? What should I read after Across the Green Grass Fields?
The last book available until I can get my grubby hands on the sixth book on January 12! ππ
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so-soI must admit I'm not always super into these - I loved #3 about the world of Confection. At least this one brings Jack back to the Home for Wayward Children, and shows some of the characters together, so it continues some of the stories. And I like the plot of a group of them, knowing the rule against quests, deciding to go on one anyway. ‡οΈ
pickI just love these books, they‘re so weird and dark and unexpected. I saw mixed reviews on this but I thought it was great. Jack and Jill have the most overtly dark storyline for sure, but it‘s really brilliant. I didn‘t actually listen to this, I read it on my Kindle (the square audiobook pics are good for Litsy). I always wonder how the handful of drawings scattered throughout the series look in print.
pickThese really are cute stories, a little cheesey for my taste but, I do enjoy what the author.has done with the idea of doors to other worlds.
This story was surprising, because it focused on Jack and Jill for a second time, Jack has been put into the body of her sister Jill and heads to The school for help.from.her friends to get back in her body and to over throw Jill from becoming a vampire.
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Night shift pick. Here‘s to hoping I actually get to read a little between patients.
Jack: A person is not a piece of gingerbread
Sumi: Oh, you‘re so wrong about that
I‘ve also missed Sumi, just like, So Much
βShould Alexis decide she wants to be a mother, I‘ll construct her the child or children of her dreams, and I won‘t use anything so primitive as a stapler.β
Y‘all I have missed Jack, just like, So Much. Please read the whole thing it‘s just glorious.
I love these books so much and I‘m so excited for this latest adventure of the Wayward Children. These books feel like coming home everytime I read them.
pickStill rating this a pick because I love this series and characters so much but truthfully this volume just wasn't quite as engaging for me as the others. The writing itself is as excellent as ever but I guess I just didn't feel like we had to go back to the Moors already to see how Jack and Jill's story finally plays out. I was hoping for more about someone we knew but not enough yet, like Kade or Christopher. Still enjoyable though!
so-soI'm not sure if it's my dislike of the Moore or my reading slump, but this one didn't grabbed me as the previous ones.
I enjoyed it, but it didn't had the same magic that usually makes me apart of the books.
And to be honest I'm a bit done with Jack and Jill. Their story was awesome, but now it's enough.
#AudioPuzzling Listening to the tagged book π
Finished the puzzle on the right and starting the one on the left.
I don‘t look very hard anymore because I‘ve picked so many I‘ve lost count, but four-leaf clovers find me anyways.
I finished COME TUMBLING DOWN on the #audiowalk where I found this one. I loved the book at first, but somehow it lost me during all the stuff with the ocean gods and I never quite recovered my momentum. Oh well. It was still really good, even if I preferred the first four in the series.
pickJack is one of my favorite characters from this series, and I‘m so glad that this book got her story truly wrapped up. I definitely devoured this book in such a single-minded haze that I forgot to break for lunch or anything else. (Also I WANT KADE TO GET HIS OWN BOOK I LOVE HIM SO MUCH.)
pick"Hope is a vicious beast. It sinks in its claws and it doesn't let go."
In the fifth book, we are taken back to the Moors, the land behind Jack's & Jill's door from book two. We finally find out what happened to the twins after we last saw them. Not only do we get to learn more about the Moors (and those undead water gods!) but we also get to spend more time with some of my favorite characters from the series Christopher, Kade, Sumi, and Cora.
pickI LOVE these books and I can see why McGuire felt compelled to complete the story of Jack and Jill and the Moors, but now that she has I am ready for CORA‘S story next! Please?!
pickI love the Wayward Children books, and although this one wasn‘t my favorite, I was happy to see some familiar characters again. This definitely isn‘t the entry point in the story, thoughβ start with book 1 or 2. Here, we return to the moors with Jack and Jill, and the story goes even darker, if that‘s possible.
so-soAnother adventure in Jack and Jill's deadly world. I guess this is supposed to be the finale of the Moors and the final trip with Jack and Jill. It was satisfying conclusion for the sisters and leaves open the possibly of more adventures with our cast of oddball characters. However, it was short and felt a bit rushed, more like an episode in these characters lives rather than a full fledged chapter. I liked it well enough but certainly not my fav
pickAnother story set in the Moors. Not my favourite setting (that would be Confection) but thankfully I found this story more entertaining than Down Among the Sticks and bone. However that was mainly due to Sumi's absurdism. Still like this series but it hasn't had the same impact for me since the first book Every Heart a Doorway and Beneath the Sugar Sky. 3.5/5 Stars.
pickI love this series.
This is book 5, but they‘re all short little novellas.
I was so happy to see Jack again, and love the arrival of her door with lightning! So Frankenstein feeling.
I hope Seanan McGuire will write many many more of these!
pickWhile this isn't my favorite if the series, that would be Lundy's book, it was really enjoyable! This one is a stark contrast to Beneath the Sugar Sky and I loved the grim strangeness of the Moors. Of course Sumi brings her own brand of sharp edged whimsy and makes it that much better.
Book 1 of the #readathon complete! #deweyapril
About 2 and a half hours in to my audio for #deweys24hourreadathon and really enjoying it. I had forgotten how whimsical and dark this series is.
Also doing the Abra Community day event on PokemonGo. So thankful they found a way to do events from home. β€ #readathon #deweysreadathon #deweyapril
Moving right along to book 5!
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