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*** Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world. ***

The thing I wanted from Every Heart a Doorway (EHaD) was more information from the other places the children went. Down Among the Sticks and Bones follows the infamous Jack and Jill from the inkling of a thought about conception to the moment they were kicked out of the Moors.

Jacqueline and Jillian were not what I expected them to be. As sisters and twins to boot I thought that even in the Moors they would be thick as thieves especially after we see them at the Asylum/School in the previous book. But that isn’t want they were at all. They were practically strangers in a land where you would think they would have held tight to the only thing they still had from the world they left.

The Moors is fascinating because it is almost a land out of a Shelley novel. It reminds me of Frankenstein and Dracula movie that were in black and white.

*** There are worlds built on rainbows and worlds built on rain. There are worlds of pure mathematics, where every number chimes like crystal as it rolls into reality. There are worlds of light and worlds of darkness, worlds of rhyme and worlds of reason, and worlds where the only thing that matters is the goodness in a hero’s heart. The Moors are none of those things.
[…]
The Moors exist in eternal twilight, in the pause between the lightning strike and the resurrection. They are a place of endless scientific experimentation, of monstrous beauty, and of terrible consequences ***

This story was easier to follow than the last because we know Jack and Jill and because this focused solely on their journey to one land. It was surprising because I thought I knew Jack and Jill when clearly I didn’t

I liked the EHaD a little more just because of the chaos and all of the different possible worlds you could end up in if you just opened the right door at the right time. But I also liked seeing Jack in her element as she apprenticed to the good Dr. I appreciate that her romantic interests were different than many characters in stories. This was the character fleshing out I wanted to see in the book and now I fully understand the sacrifice that Jack made to stay with her sister and it made me like her all the more.

This series is strange and will not work for everyone. But I’m enjoying my time in nonsense worlds and logic worlds and all of the worlds in-between.


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Down Among the Sticks and Bones Wayward Children Seanan McGuire 9780765392039 Books Reviews

Can identical twins pass through the same doorway, yet still find different paths in life?

This second book in McGuire's Wayward Children series provides a prequel to the story in the Nebula-award winner "Every Heart a Doorway." It is the back-story of two of the first novel's main characters, Jack and Jill. The Wolcott twins, christened Jillian and Jaqueline, begin with roles imposed by their sociopathic parents, long before they ever climb down to the dark Moors on the other side of their wardrobe stairwell.

Each choice these girls make from the moment they step into the mysterious stairwell under the lid of Grandma's trunk has a consequence, and the accumulated choices drive their separate journeys in this vampire- and mad-scientist-ridden underworld.

Lay aside the blood-sucking and dead-raising details, though, and the story is really about gender, and the role of love in human life. It reminded me, in fact, of the conjoined twins Bertran and Nela Korsyzczy in Sheri Tepper's "Sideshow" Sideshow. While Bertran and Nela achieved their sexual definition from the hands of a surgeon, their inner development was similar to the Moor-marooned Wolcott twins—even to harboring disparate hopes and desires. The conjoined twins, boy and girl, love each other, even though one dreams of swimming in cool seas, and the other yearns for flight through an endless burning sky.

For the Korsyzczy twins, their initial choice was made for them by a surgeon. For the Wolcott girls, though, enjoined to "Be Sure" before they open their doorway and enter the dark lands under a blood-red moon, every choice will have consequences that further reveal and define them in their new-chosen roles.

The tragic choice of love is not, as Drew Barrymore's Danielle challenges Leonardo da Vinci in "Ever After" Ever After A Cinderella Story, "A fish may love a bird, signore, but where would they live?" It is that love is messy, a problem for the obsessively-clean Jack. It is that love is self-sharing and fearless, a daunting prospect for the essentially timid, thoroughly selfish Jill.

And for both twins, whose only experience of love before the Moors was years ago at their Grandmother's hands, there seems little reason to make such a difficult choice... even as they choose.

The choice of gender roles, like choosing to love, is never imposed from without. We make our choice, conscious or not, influenced or un- and we continue to choose. And we can always, each of us, make a different choice.

As long as we live. As long as we don't change too far.
*** Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world. ***

The thing I wanted from Every Heart a Doorway (EHaD) was more information from the other places the children went. Down Among the Sticks and Bones follows the infamous Jack and Jill from the inkling of a thought about conception to the moment they were kicked out of the Moors.

Jacqueline and Jillian were not what I expected them to be. As sisters and twins to boot I thought that even in the Moors they would be thick as thieves especially after we see them at the Asylum/School in the previous book. But that isn’t want they were at all. They were practically strangers in a land where you would think they would have held tight to the only thing they still had from the world they left.

The Moors is fascinating because it is almost a land out of a Shelley novel. It reminds me of Frankenstein and Dracula movie that were in black and white.

*** There are worlds built on rainbows and worlds built on rain. There are worlds of pure mathematics, where every number chimes like crystal as it rolls into reality. There are worlds of light and worlds of darkness, worlds of rhyme and worlds of reason, and worlds where the only thing that matters is the goodness in a hero’s heart. The Moors are none of those things.
[…]
The Moors exist in eternal twilight, in the pause between the lightning strike and the resurrection. They are a place of endless scientific experimentation, of monstrous beauty, and of terrible consequences ***

This story was easier to follow than the last because we know Jack and Jill and because this focused solely on their journey to one land. It was surprising because I thought I knew Jack and Jill when clearly I didn’t

I liked the EHaD a little more just because of the chaos and all of the different possible worlds you could end up in if you just opened the right door at the right time. But I also liked seeing Jack in her element as she apprenticed to the good Dr. I appreciate that her romantic interests were different than many characters in stories. This was the character fleshing out I wanted to see in the book and now I fully understand the sacrifice that Jack made to stay with her sister and it made me like her all the more.

This series is strange and will not work for everyone. But I’m enjoying my time in nonsense worlds and logic worlds and all of the worlds in-between.