Come Tumbling Down

No cover — Seanan McGuire: Come Tumbling Down

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ISBN:: 978-1-64358-594-9

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The fifth installment in New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's award-winning Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones. When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always as permanent as it is here, and when Jack is herself carried back into the school, it becomes clear that something has happened to her. Something terrible. Something of which only the maddest of scientists could conceive. Something only her friends are equipped to help her overcome. Eleanor West's "No Quests" rule is about to be broken. Again.

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dorian@cutebook.club reviewed Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children, #5)

My review of the Wayward Children series

5 stars

I devoured this series by Seanan McGuire. It's so much fun! I really love all the bizzare, weird, impossible worlds she constructs in these. They make for great adventures, but also their impossiblities offer some perpectives to think about our own world, our own ethics and morals. The one that has stuck with me most is the world McGuire creates in In An Absent Dream. The Goblin Market enforces the concept of fair value on all transactions its citizens make. You must pay fair value for the goods or services that you receive. If you do not, the market will gradually turn you into a bird. Interestingly, as the story points out, enforcing fairness seems to also preclude generosity. If all transactions must be fair, then it's much more difficult to give someone a gift. The Goblin Market is generally a place full of happiness and love, but it raises …

I devoured this series by Seanan McGuire. It's so much fun! I really love all the bizzare, weird, impossible worlds she constructs in these. They make for great adventures, but also their impossiblities offer some perpectives to think about our own world, our own ethics and morals. The one that has stuck with me most is the world McGuire creates in In An Absent Dream. The Goblin Market enforces the concept of fair value on all transactions its citizens make. You must pay fair value for the goods or services that you receive. If you do not, the market will gradually turn you into a bird. Interestingly, as the story points out, enforcing fairness seems to also preclude generosity. If all transactions must be fair, then it's much more difficult to give someone a gift. The Goblin Market is generally a place full of happiness and love, but it raises questions for me of how I would ideally like to structure my communities. How do we want to perform transactions and social cohesion? Is fairness something that makes for a thriving and vibrant community?