This series is everything I wanted (and more) from Miss Peregrine’s…of which I was not a fan. The first book, Every Heart a Doorway—and how can you not love a book with that title—wasn’t my favorite, but was special because of what it was: a love letter to days spent wandering through attics and cellars, woods and riverbeds, and all the other mysterious places I spent my childhood in search of that One Magic Thing. I never knew what I was looking for when I […]
A more melancholy entry in the Wayward Children series.
Down Among the Sticks and Bones is the second novella in Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. The first, Every Heart a Doorway, took me utterly by surprise when I first read it, and I loved it. It was a touching, gentle story about children and teens who had once been whisked through magical doorways to fairytale lands, only to be returned. Jack and Jill while only side characters in the original, had potentially one of the more intriguing backstories, and I was quite excited to […]
In Candyland the Baker is God
I wasn’t too fond of Seanan McGuire’s Down Among the Sticks and Stones, so when I got the notification that Beneath the Sugar Sky had been released and was on my kindle I wasn’t quite as excited as I normally am for one of her books. I mean, obviously I still preordered it, but I wasn’t happy about it. However, I have some downtime right now and I wasn’t feeling any of the other four books I’m currently reading so I picked it up. It […]
I Slam The Door But Watch What I Say
Down and Among the Sticks and Stones by Seanan McGuire is a prequel to Every Heart A Doorway, which I loved, however it is definitely the weaker novel and suffers quite a bit in comparison. I wanted to like this book, but I just didn’t. This book follows Jack and Jill, who were secondary characters in EHAD, and tells the story of how they found their doorway and what lay behind it. They travelled to a fairy world that inspired Victorian monster novels, a place […]