You can understand why McGuire keeps going back to these characters: Jill, the would-be vampire who kills people with ease and Jack (formerly Jacqueline), the apprentice mad scientist, are the kind of people who create drama. The newest book in the series, Come Tumbling Down, is the third one that involves the twins, Jack and Jill, and their lives in The Moors, a world with vampires and mad scientists and, as we discover in this volume, creatures like those of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. A premise like that leads to a great variety of stories, because the different characters have all come from different worlds: one a world of candy and sweetness, one a world of water, one a world where everything can be bought and sold. West herself) has had that experience themselves. The concept is brilliant: what happens to those children who find portals or other entrances to other worlds, spend time in those other worlds, and then return to our mundane reality? What happens, in this series, is that most of them find their way to Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, where everybody understands what it’s like to miss your true world and your true self because everybody (from Ms. I make no secret of my great love for Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series.
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