We also hear a bit more about the realms of goblins and werewolves and others on the Moors. We are shown the realm of the Drowned Gods, and spend some time in the village populated by their worshippers, as well as meeting the priests and acolytes who live lives consumed by the task of worshiping their cruel deities. Bleak, we get to explore more of the Moors in Come Tumbling Down.
While Down Among the Sticks and Bones focused mainly on the land grudgingly shared between the vampiric Master and the mad scientist Dr.
Those monsters include those who find their doors in our world and stumble into the Moors, and find themselves finally at home. We get to see more of this brutally beautiful world that is populated by monsters. We venture to two main locales here: our world, via Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, which has been the hub shared by all of the stories and the Moors, the land found by Jack and Jill in the novella dedicated to their adventure, Down Among the Sticks and Bones. “A tool is only a weapon when it’s held by people who want to use it the wrong way.” Due to the fact that so much of this ensemble is comprised of returning characters, some of whom have departed the worlds of the living only to return again, I don’t really feel like I can discuss characters without inadvertently spoiling preceding volumes of the series. I strongly suggest rereading not only Every Heart A Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones before picking up this book, but Beneath the Sugar Sky as well, as characters introduced in that book are key characters in Come Tumbling Down. “…the fact that I’ve been damaged doesn’t make me broken…” It was an action-packed read that had me flying through its pages in one sitting. While I didn’t adore it as much as I have some of the previous installments, Come Tumbling Down is a fast-paced return adventure spanning two of McGuire’s worlds that I’ve come to love in recent years. I’ve been eagerly anticipating Come Tumbling Down since I read the final page of In An Absent Dream this past January. Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children novellas have quickly become one of my yearly highlights. I received a copy of this book from the publisher (Tor.com) in exchange for an honest review.
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