  | Book Details Title: Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children) |
Book DescriptionReview “[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 Read more About the Author SEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. Read more Customers Review: I’ve been waiting as patiently as possible for my next quest -“No quests.”Right. So I’ve been counting the days until I was finally able to spend more quality time with my fellow Waywards and today we went to the Moors! Who’s ‘we’? I travelled with the girl with the “perpetual sugar buzz”, the “Goblin Prince in Waiting”, the girl “with the ocean in her hair”, a mad scientist, the boy with the bone flute and the girl “with the lightning-powered heart”. Travelling by lightning hasn’t been this much fun since I hitched a ride in a Delorean!Having completed my most anticipated read of 2020 less than a fortnight into the year I now feel like I’ve wandered into a bittersweet limbo. I’m absolutely elated that, after a year of anticipation, my expectations (which were skyscraper looking down on clouds high) didn’t overshadow my enjoyment. I’m proud of myself for savouring the experience, appreciating every sentence rather than bingeing the entire book in one sitting. I’m sad that I can never read this book for the first time ever again. I want to gush to anyone who will listen to me about every sentence I highlighted, every character, plot point, what I hope will happen next, what I fear will happen next … but spoilers.“But I warn you, this isn’t a tale for the faint of heart. It is a story of murder, and betrayal, and sisterly love turned sour.”I will tell you though, although this was not her story, Sumi was the standout wayward for me in this book. She somehow kept managing to snag the best lines and I don’t know which one of us this says more about but I understood every piece of Nonsense she uttered. I love that she gets to the heart of the issue and asks the truly important questions, like “Why is the village of scary fish-people where you get your chocolate biscuits?”One of the first things I tell anyone about me is that ‘Every Heart a Doorway’ is my all time favourite book. I don’t care that I’m an adult; I will be searching for my door for the rest of my life and if you are also seeking admittance to your door, regardless of how different our true worlds look, I will consider you a kindred spirit.Usually when I read a new addition to a beloved series there’s an anxiety that accompanies me. I’ve often found that the shine of the first book can be smudged when follow up books don’t meet my expectations. I’m aware that the pedestals I place books I love on can be difficult to reach and that’s part of the problem. So you’d think I’d be especially nervous whenever I begin a new ‘Wayward Children’ book but I have absolute faith that my hopes, no matter how seemingly unrealistic they are, are safe with Seanan and she’s never let me down.“New things are the best kind of magic there is.”I don’t want this series to ever end. I want to visit every world. I want to secure a room at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children while I wait for my own door to open. So far, none of the worlds I’ve visited with my fellow waywards have been my own, although I’ve caught glimpses of it in several. I fully expect that one day Seanan will write about my world and while I’m reading that story my book will magically transform into my very own door. I’m sure!If you haven’t already read the first four books of this series, please remedy that ASAP before reading this one. Then you can join me as I begin the interminable wait for January 2021.Since I highlighted so much of this book that I probably should have just gone ahead and highlighted it all, it’s practically impossible to choose a favourite sentence. This is the one that spoke the loudest to me when I reread all of my highlights:“No one should have to sit and suffer and pretend to be someone they’re not because it’s easier, or because no one wants to help them fix it.”If anyone needs me I’ll be reading the sixth book in the series.[But it’s not released yet.]“Hey! Don’t you go getting logical rules on my illogical life plans”[I’m serious. You must wait for another excruciatingly long year before you are allowed to continue this journey.]“This is the awful sprinkles on the sundae of doom.”
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