Come Tumbling Down, by Seanan McGuire (Tor.com)
In this latest
installment of the “Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children” series (the
first book of which was the stunning, award-winning Every Heart A Doorway), Jack (of Jack and Jill) returns from the
world of the Moors, a lightning-ridden nightmare cross between Frankenstein and Dracula, with an occasional Lovecraftian Drowned God. Only Jack isn’t herself, she’s been placed into Jill’s
body, and therein lies the problem, because although the two are identical
twins, their personalities could not be more dissimilar. Faced with
unacceptable, revolting differences, Jack’s OCD threatens to overwhelm her
self-control. Now Jack’s on a mission back to the Moors to regain her own body
and save her mentor, Dr. Bleak. Accompanying her are her lover, Alexis, the
girl with lightning instead of a heart, and her friends from the school, Kade,
Sumi, Christopher, and the mermaid girl, Cora.
Come Tumbling Down is a worthy, brilliant successor to the
previous volumes, full of luscious prose, sentences that ring so emotionally
true they stop your heart, and immense generosity.
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