Wayward Children: Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Series #2) (Hardcover)

from AngelaJMaher

I had expected the second book in the series to follow on from the first, but instead it details the story of a pair of characters from the time before it. Although a little disorientating at first (I didn't read the blurb before diving in) the story is captivating and is quickly absorbing.

from LynnMPK

It was interesting to see Jack and Jill's story after meeting them in the first book. This series continues to be short and to the point. Which is great except that I liked the Moors and I wish we could've spent more time there! It feels like there's so much more story that could be told about th...

from dalamb

This is the second book in a series, a prequel to the first, but can be read on its own. A portal fantasy, it shows 12-year old twin sisters Jack and Jill, raised by terrible parents who force them into different roles unsuited to them. They find a stairs into a world of mostly-offstage horrors w...

from rivkat

Jacqueline and Jillian-never Jack and Jill-are raised by parents who see them as accessories, not people, and when they find a set of stairs where no stairs should be, they end up in a fairy-tale land of vampires and mad scientists. McGuire's trademark repetition works for the fairy-tale morals a...

from tapestry100

Down Among the Sticks and Bones, the remarkable follow-up to Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway, tells the story of twin sisters Jack & Jill, and how they found their door, and how they were forced back to the real world. Raised to fit the perfect ideals and preconceived notions of children t...