McGuire has written another beautiful and meaningful story with Come Tumbling Down. It is an important message, and McGuire treats the subject delicately and with immense care. Your body on the outside does not necessarily match who you are on the inside. In this installment, McGuire touches on the sense of self and not being at home in one’s own body.
Each installment has a message or idea that can be gleaned from the pages without preaching. We can be sad and we can be hurt and we can even be killed, but the world keeps turning, and the things we’re supposed to do keep needing to be done.”Īgain, McGuire delights and intrigues with the darkly rich world she has created in the Wayward Children series. They’d make it out like it was a good thing, a few crying children in exchange for a peace that never falters or fades. “The world doesn’t stop spinning because you’re sad, and that’s good if it did, people would go around breaking hearts like they were sheets of maple sugar, just to keep the world exactly where it is. It depends entirely on which side you are standing on. But, who knows who the monsters are? The line between good and evil or Monster and savior can be blurry. It is a place where gods are drowned, the moon has power, and lightning fuels the world, and it is a place where Jack feels most like herself and a home where she wants to stay.īut first, Jack and friends Kade, Sumi, Cristopher, and Cora must help Jack stay sane and save this dark and macabre world.
The Moors, the twin’s world they have come to love, is a place of darkness, monsters, mad science, and unforgiving fierce creatures. She requests the aid of former classmates in a quest, disobeying the no quest rule, to get something of great her body back from Jill and save Jill, even if it means saving her from herself. Jack is a sufferer of OCD and desperately needs her body back to salvage her sanity. Jack is trapped in the body of Jill, and although Jill is virtually identical to Jack physically, Jill has done horrible things that have soiled her very essence. Jack returns to the school via a door made of lightning, literally carrying her love in her arms. Jack, the mad scientist, sufferer of OCD, and generally quirky misanthrope, and Jill, Jack’s twin, is cruel, beautiful, and wants nothing more than becoming a vampire. The world doesn’t stop spinning because you’re sadĬome Tumbling Down, Seanan Mcguire’s fifth installment in the Wayward Children series, follows the adventures of the delightfully macabre and grisly Wolcott twins.
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