Down Among the Sticks and Bones
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Seanan McGuire
Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best SeriesWinner: 2018 Alex AwardWinner: 2018 ALA RUSA Fantasy AwardSeanan McGuire returns to her popular Wayward Children series with Down Among the Sticks and Bones—a truly standalone story suitable for adult and young adult readers of urban fantasy, and the follow-up to the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List book Every Heart a DoorwayTwin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.This is the story of what happened first...Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted. They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.The Wayward Children SeriesBook 1: Every Heart a DoorwayBook 2: Down Among the Sticks and BonesBook 3: Beneath the Sugar SkyBook 4: In an Absent Dream
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More Details:
Author
Seanan McGuire
Pages
187
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Published Date
2017-06-13
ISBN
0765392038 9780765392039
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"These are fantastic Novella's! This follows along with Jack & Jill's original stories and how they were kicked out of their own stories. It explains a lot about the girls from the 1st book. I get where these books are going now. I can't wait to read the rest of the stories! Highly recommend as either a short comfort read or for anyone that loves a good retelling! "
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Breanna Ingersoll
"I absolutely love this series! I think this book is my favorite so far! "
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Courtney Cannon
"Sapphic Jack and Jill retelling "
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Maram
"Meh. Terrible ending. I only enjoyed about....50 pages of it. It was well written, but blech. The only character I cared about was Jack, and she got monumentally screwed. I just... I can't."
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Valerie Crump
"oh i am enjoying this, this is my favorite book so far"
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James b
"Another amazing book in the Wayward children series. I can not reccomend this enough. It has a lot of intrigue, intense action and emotion, and great world and character building. On top of it all it has lgbtq representation. "
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Apollo Kronfeld
"I don't see my replies"
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Virginia Collins
"It was amazing and I loved the ocd and lgbt+ representation "
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Jordyn G
"I really enjoy Jack's character and it makes me so sad to think about what she goes through in the end. I really can't wait for the next Wayward Children book."
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Renee Delcourt